The Broken Functionalist Moderne Windows of a Derelict Mock Tudor Restaurant - Korumburra
Built in the 1920s this old stone building with its Funtionalist Moderne windows and ornamental Mock Tudor gables used to be a restaurant.
Located in the Victorian country town of Korumburra, the former restaurant has long since closed and where once ladies sat taking tea at intimately grouped tables there now lies the burnt out remains of the interior, which is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Sadly, all the stylish Functionalist Moderne windows have had their panes smashed, but the frames, rusty and still held in their closed position as they were left, give an idea of how the restaurant must once have looked. The building features a typically picturesque high gabled roof line and ornamental fretwork on the boards beneath the eaves to give it that Tudorbethan style, so popular across Britain and her dominions. The whole building was once painted white and the struts on the fretwork picked out in black to give it the Olde English look that would have made this a delightful place to be.
In spite of its dereliction, there is still beauty to be found in this building. Not only is the stylish skeleton still standing proud, but in the light that fills the building's interior through the broken skeletal panes of the windows and clusters of brightly coloured nasturtiums (a remnant of the former cottage garden about the restaurant) that still spring up from amongst the grass.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.
The Broken Functionalist Moderne Windows of a Derelict Mock Tudor Restaurant - Korumburra
Built in the 1920s this old stone building with its Funtionalist Moderne windows and ornamental Mock Tudor gables used to be a restaurant.
Located in the Victorian country town of Korumburra, the former restaurant has long since closed and where once ladies sat taking tea at intimately grouped tables there now lies the burnt out remains of the interior, which is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Sadly, all the stylish Functionalist Moderne windows have had their panes smashed, but the frames, rusty and still held in their closed position as they were left, give an idea of how the restaurant must once have looked. The building features a typically picturesque high gabled roof line and ornamental fretwork on the boards beneath the eaves to give it that Tudorbethan style, so popular across Britain and her dominions. The whole building was once painted white and the struts on the fretwork picked out in black to give it the Olde English look that would have made this a delightful place to be.
In spite of its dereliction, there is still beauty to be found in this building. Not only is the stylish skeleton still standing proud, but in the light that fills the building's interior through the broken skeletal panes of the windows and clusters of brightly coloured nasturtiums (a remnant of the former cottage garden about the restaurant) that still spring up from amongst the grass.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.