A Spanish Mission Style Villa in Aqua - Coonans Hill
Built in a ribbon development along a tramline during the late 1920s or early 1930s, this neat asymmetrical Spanish Mission style villa may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Coonan's Hill.
The stuccoed brick facade treatment, geometric patterns of feature bricks on the porch canopy, archways and barley twist spiral columns of the vestibule pay homage to the Spanish Mission style.
Although now painted aqua, the house would originally have been painted either white, cream or some shade of "oatmeal" - a colour only ever truly fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s!
The Spanish Mission style was typically a style that emerged in California during the interwar years and spread across the world.
A Spanish Mission Style Villa in Aqua - Coonans Hill
Built in a ribbon development along a tramline during the late 1920s or early 1930s, this neat asymmetrical Spanish Mission style villa may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Coonan's Hill.
The stuccoed brick facade treatment, geometric patterns of feature bricks on the porch canopy, archways and barley twist spiral columns of the vestibule pay homage to the Spanish Mission style.
Although now painted aqua, the house would originally have been painted either white, cream or some shade of "oatmeal" - a colour only ever truly fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s!
The Spanish Mission style was typically a style that emerged in California during the interwar years and spread across the world.