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"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
Scene is south of Browning Drive. The creek flows behind an apartment complex which is visible in the background.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
In East Melbourne, just off busy Wellington Parade in the little cul-de-sac of Garden Avenue is a blissfully quiet piece of "between the wars" Melbourne.
The entire avenue is made up of wonderful Functionaist Moderne blocks of flats. This red brick complex is one of the more remarkable blocks with its rounded drawing room windows, white painted frames which stand out against the red of the bricks. Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on a vertical emphasis, Functionalist Moderne buildings often featured horizontal emphasis, which is why it has horizontal white painted concrete stripes between the blocks of windows and a horizontal band of feature bricks above the ground floor flat windows. Even the lamp in the garden is in a wonderful Art Deco style!
Please also note the lucky horseshoe on the outer windowsill of the ground floor bay window.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
These wonderful Streamline Moderne red and brown brick flats with rounded balconies and Functonalist windowframes achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular in the mid to late 1930s. Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on angular detail, Streamline Moderne buildings often placed emphasis on rounded edges, as though they were standing up against a great wind. The rounded concrete rendered balcony edges are prime examples of such architectural features. Aside from these and a small amount of feature brickwork, the detail on these flats is minimal.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
Originally known as "Wandella Mansion", "Eyre House" is the large mansion found on the corner of Dawson and Eyre Streets, Ballarat.
Information on the mansion's history is very difficult to find. It was built somewhere in the 1880s during the Ballarat Gold Rush, and was undoubtedly built on the fortunes made in the Ballarat gold fields.
"Eyre House" when it was "Wandella Mansion" was built in Victorian Second Empire style, an architectural movement that existed between the 1840s and the 1890s. Althought much of the original features have been replaced with more modish design, the mansard roof of "Eyre House's" tower still remains. Such a roof with its ornate cast iron cresting was typical of the Victoria Second Empire movement.
When boom turned to bust and the money ran out, the ownership of "Wandella Mansion" passed between several very large and wealthy families, who staved off tax and death duties and maintained a comfortable lifestyle by selling off parcels of the surrounding land bit by bit during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It remained a grand family home until the Great Depression of 1929. In the early 1930s, "Wandella Mansion" was converted into a complex of flats and was renamed "Eyre Flats". Its facade had an Art Deco facelift to make it more fashionable and attractive to those who could afford to buy bijou apartments. Whilst altered completely internally, the new flat complex did maintain the original cornices in the main entrance. Eventually, as times in Ballarat worsened, "Eyre Flats" entered its final incarnation as "Eyre House", a twenty-three bedroom, six bathroom rooming house, which it remained throughout the Second World War and through the later half of the Twentieth Century. In the Twenty First Century it became short stay apartments and has only recently been put up for sale yet again, as the current owners, who have been renovating for the past five years, prepare to move on.
Who knows what "Eyre House's" future holds?
250 Douglas Place at Garvey Center in downtown Wichita was once a Holiday Inn.
This 26-story tower was built ca. 1969 and became "Holiday Inn Wichita-Plaza." My old 1972 HI Directory notes that it had 284 rooms which could be had for $15.75 per night ($3 bucks for each additional guest). The "Ship's Tavern" was on the first floor and the "Penthouse Club" on the 25th floor featured live entertainment!
When it left the Holiday Inn system in 1987 and became an independent hotel, room rates had risen more than 4x to about $70 night.
Today, it has become an apartment complex featuring 1-bedroom units.
If you always wanted to live in a former Holiday Inn and are planning to move to Wichita, "you should live here!"
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
February 20, 2022 - 400 West Rich Street is now a creative arts space. "The original 400 West Rich property brings us back to a century-old building initially operated by the D.A. Ebinger Sanitary Manufacturing Company. They were historically credited with designing and manufacturing the first iteration of refrigerated drinking fountains. During the early 1920s, the company owned their own showrooms throughout the New York and Chicago areas, where they introduced their secondary manufacturing focus, porcelain toilets and sinks." Previous text from the following website: 400westrich.com
A walk with the MeetUp Exploring Columbus by Foot Group to view and discuss the art murals in East Franklinton, Columbus, Ohio.
During its heyday, when this building was a hotel, the jazz club once situated in the arcade of this now-condo building hosted patrons such as Al Capone and, much later, Marilyn Monroe and US Presidents. Benny Goodman & his orchestra entertained guests here.
Originally known as "Wandella Mansion", "Eyre House" is the large mansion found on the corner of Dawson and Eyre Streets, Ballarat.
Information on the mansion's history is very difficult to find. It was built somewhere in the 1880s during the Ballarat Gold Rush, and was undoubtedly built on the fortunes made in the Ballarat gold fields.
"Eyre House" when it was "Wandella Mansion" was built in Victorian Second Empire style, an architectural movement that existed between the 1840s and the 1890s. Althought much of the original features have been replaced with more modish design, the mansard roof of "Eyre House's" tower still remains. Such a roof with its ornate cast iron cresting was typical of the Victoria Second Empire movement.
When boom turned to bust and the money ran out, the ownership of "Wandella Mansion" passed between several very large and wealthy families, who staved off tax and death duties and maintained a comfortable lifestyle by selling off parcels of the surrounding land bit by bit during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It remained a grand family home until the Great Depression of 1929. In the early 1930s, "Wandella Mansion" was converted into a complex of flats and was renamed "Eyre Flats". Its facade had an Art Deco facelift to make it more fashionable and attractive to those who could afford to buy bijou apartments. Whilst altered completely internally, the new flat complex did maintain the original cornices in the main entrance. Eventually, as times in Ballarat worsened, "Eyre Flats" entered its final incarnation as "Eyre House", a twenty-three bedroom, six bathroom rooming house, which it remained throughout the Second World War and through the later half of the Twentieth Century. In the Twenty First Century it became short stay apartments and has only recently been put up for sale yet again, as the current owners, who have been renovating for the past five years, prepare to move on.
Who knows what "Eyre House's" future holds?
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
The street that passes through my complex during the 2004 Valentine's Day snowstorm. The warmer temperatures of the previous days helped in keeping the streets drivable.
This block of Art Deco flats in East Melbourne has a wonderful entranceway with geometric Jazz Age designs around it.
This block of flats is typical of the Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. They are as chic today as when they were first built in the 20s or early 30s.
Originally known as "Wandella Mansion", "Eyre House" is the large mansion found on the corner of Dawson and Eyre Streets, Ballarat.
Information on the mansion's history is very difficult to find. It was built somewhere in the 1880s during the Ballarat Gold Rush, and was undoubtedly built on the fortunes made in the Ballarat gold fields.
"Eyre House" when it was "Wandella Mansion" was built in Victorian Second Empire style, an architectural movement that existed between the 1840s and the 1890s. Althought much of the original features have been replaced with more modish design, the mansard roof of "Eyre House's" tower still remains. Such a roof with its ornate cast iron cresting was typical of the Victoria Second Empire movement.
When boom turned to bust and the money ran out, the ownership of "Wandella Mansion" passed between several very large and wealthy families, who staved off tax and death duties and maintained a comfortable lifestyle by selling off parcels of the surrounding land bit by bit during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It remained a grand family home until the Great Depression of 1929. In the early 1930s, "Wandella Mansion" was converted into a complex of flats and was renamed "Eyre Flats". Its facade had an Art Deco facelift to make it more fashionable and attractive to those who could afford to buy bijou apartments. Whilst altered completely internally, the new flat complex did maintain the original cornices in the main entrance. Eventually, as times in Ballarat worsened, "Eyre Flats" entered its final incarnation as "Eyre House", a twenty-three bedroom, six bathroom rooming house, which it remained throughout the Second World War and through the later half of the Twentieth Century. In the Twenty First Century it became short stay apartments and has only recently been put up for sale yet again, as the current owners, who have been renovating for the past five years, prepare to move on.
Who knows what "Eyre House's" future holds?
Erich-Schmid-Strasse 6 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. I lived here from 1955 to 1957 when I was around 10 years of age. It was our last home in Germany before we made a final move to the United States in early 1957.
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
"Drewan Court" is a wonderful set of Streamline Moderne red and brown brick flats built on the front of an old Gothic Victorian mansion (the chimneys and gables of which are just visible in this photograph) in Lyons Street. With rounded balconies and Functonalist windowframes, "Drewan Court" achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular in the mid to late 1930s.
Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on angular detail, Streamline Moderne buildings often placed emphasis on rounded edges, as though they were standing up against a great wind. The rounded concrete rendered windows are prime examples of such architectural features. Aside from these and a small amount of feature brickwork, the detail on these flats is minimal.
Angular forms, zinc façade and iconic status in the redeveloped harbour district. 214 apartments, commercial space, a semi-public interior courtyard and an underground car park.
Originally known as "Wandella Mansion", "Eyre House" is the large mansion found on the corner of Dawson and Eyre Streets, Ballarat.
Information on the mansion's history is very difficult to find. It was built somewhere in the 1880s during the Ballarat Gold Rush, and was undoubtedly built on the fortunes made in the Ballarat gold fields.
"Eyre House" when it was "Wandella Mansion" was built in Victorian Second Empire style, an architectural movement that existed between the 1840s and the 1890s. Althought much of the original features have been replaced with more modish design, the mansard roof of "Eyre House's" tower still remains. Such a roof with its ornate cast iron cresting was typical of the Victoria Second Empire movement.
When boom turned to bust and the money ran out, the ownership of "Wandella Mansion" passed between several very large and wealthy families, who staved off tax and death duties and maintained a comfortable lifestyle by selling off parcels of the surrounding land bit by bit during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It remained a grand family home until the Great Depression of 1929. In the early 1930s, "Wandella Mansion" was converted into a complex of flats and was renamed "Eyre Flats". Its facade had an Art Deco facelift to make it more fashionable and attractive to those who could afford to buy bijou apartments. Whilst altered completely internally, the new flat complex did maintain the original cornices in the main entrance. Eventually, as times in Ballarat worsened, "Eyre Flats" entered its final incarnation as "Eyre House", a twenty-three bedroom, six bathroom rooming house, which it remained throughout the Second World War and through the later half of the Twentieth Century. In the Twenty First Century it became short stay apartments and has only recently been put up for sale yet again, as the current owners, who have been renovating for the past five years, prepare to move on.
Who knows what "Eyre House's" future holds?
I've been playing with digital and AI images for a week now. Just now, I decided I should just walk around the buildings where we have lived for nearly two dozen years. We sometimes ignore what is right under our noses.
dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-dose-of-realit...
The expansive Hillcrest Apartment Complex was one of the largest apartment buildings constructed in Salt Lake City during the first half of the 20th Century. The main structure was completed in 1916. A garage and an additional building were added on the Second Avenue side of the complex in 1925. Full-height porch piers supported by square columns and topped by Iconic capitols make the structure unique.
I've been playing with digital and AI images for a week now. Just now, I decided I should just walk around the buildings where we have lived for nearly two dozen years. We sometimes ignore what is right under our noses.
dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-dose-of-realit...