A Metroland Art Deco Style Villa - Moonee Ponds
This "Metroland" Art Deco villa may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.
Well proportioned, this neat, stand alone villa uses a mixture of facade treatments: red and brown feature bricks and stuccoed bricks painted in cream. It has charming leadlight glass windows featuring geometric patterns. The whole villa is surrounded by its original low stuccoed brick fence with feature brick capping and detailing.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and moderate wealth without undue showiness.
Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens.
A Metroland Art Deco Style Villa - Moonee Ponds
This "Metroland" Art Deco villa may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.
Well proportioned, this neat, stand alone villa uses a mixture of facade treatments: red and brown feature bricks and stuccoed bricks painted in cream. It has charming leadlight glass windows featuring geometric patterns. The whole villa is surrounded by its original low stuccoed brick fence with feature brick capping and detailing.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and moderate wealth without undue showiness.
Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens.