Window Detail of an Arts and Crafts Villa - Essendon
This impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Essendon was built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914).
The choice of red brick to construct the villa with is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, but hat makes this villa stand out from its neighbours is its picked out geometric brick patterns and its leadlight glass windows featuring a geometric pattern.
Essendon was etablished in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Not as large as its neighbours, a villa like this built in one suggests that it was built for an aspiring middle-class family . This villa would have required a live in maid to help her mistress, and probably the assistance of a "daily" woman to do all the harder chores.
Window Detail of an Arts and Crafts Villa - Essendon
This impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Essendon was built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914).
The choice of red brick to construct the villa with is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, but hat makes this villa stand out from its neighbours is its picked out geometric brick patterns and its leadlight glass windows featuring a geometric pattern.
Essendon was etablished in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Not as large as its neighbours, a villa like this built in one suggests that it was built for an aspiring middle-class family . This villa would have required a live in maid to help her mistress, and probably the assistance of a "daily" woman to do all the harder chores.