An Arts and Crafts Mansion - Essendon
This large Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style mansion may be found in the inner nothern Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the red and brown brick dado, rough cast stuccoed brick wall treatment and hipped roof are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as are leadlight geometric patterns in all the mansion's windows. The mansion also features its original low brick wall. The stepped decoration on the chimneys is also very typical of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. The mansion features two entrances; one facing onto the street and a second up the sideway which suggests a more unusual floor plan than other houses.
Essendon was established in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Set well back from the road on a large block, this mansion, built in the finest street of the suburb suggests that it was built for an upper class family of means. This villa would have required a retinue of servants to maintain and a series of gardners to maintain the grounds.
An Arts and Crafts Mansion - Essendon
This large Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style mansion may be found in the inner nothern Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the red and brown brick dado, rough cast stuccoed brick wall treatment and hipped roof are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as are leadlight geometric patterns in all the mansion's windows. The mansion also features its original low brick wall. The stepped decoration on the chimneys is also very typical of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. The mansion features two entrances; one facing onto the street and a second up the sideway which suggests a more unusual floor plan than other houses.
Essendon was established in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Set well back from the road on a large block, this mansion, built in the finest street of the suburb suggests that it was built for an upper class family of means. This villa would have required a retinue of servants to maintain and a series of gardners to maintain the grounds.