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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: "Gen. Chester A. Arthur" Portrait Collar Box, ca. 1880
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1880
Date Made: ca. 1880
Measurement: Collar Box: 4.75 x 4.75 x 3.375 in.; 12.065 x 12.065 x 8.5725 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5z0d
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Built in the late 1920s or early 1930s, "Tay Creggan" is a classic Inter-War Mediterranean villa that may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballart.
"Tay Creggan" has many attributes of the Inter-War Mediterranean architectural movement. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, an arcaded loggia enclosing the portico, Georgian style fan detailing above the windows and a medium pitch roof of Spanish inspired terracotta tiles.
Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very wealthy clientele who wanted something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.
"Tay Creggan" comes from the Scottish which means "house built on a rock". Whilst this villa is certainly not built on a rock, it has been built on a block of land that affords it fine views of nearby Lake Wendouree. Many enterprising Scottish immigrants settled in and around Ballarat, so the name might be a throw back to the owner's heritage.
"Tay Creggan" is sizable villa and would have appealed to the moneyed upper middle classes of Ballarat whose money came from either commercial aspects of Ballarat, or from the wool or farming industries that developed in the area post the Gold Rush boom of the Nineteenth Century.
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Black and white architectural landscape photograph taken from the ironwork bridge of the Manchester Metrolink tram system at Deansgate, looking up at modern tower blocks through the geometric steel framework. The image captures the dramatic perspective created by the tram bridge's metal structure, with strong diagonal lines and angular patterns framing the view of high-rise buildings above. The monochrome treatment emphasizes the contrast between the industrial ironwork in the foreground and the sleek modern architecture beyond, creating a dynamic composition that showcases Manchester's urban infrastructure and contemporary skyline from this unique elevated viewpoint.
This splendid Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa situated in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Essendon has been sympathetically renovated to give it a second floor.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the wide half timbered barge boards beneath the eaves of the gables are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of red brick to build the villa with. The latticed glass windows featuring blue stained glass diamond panes are also in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement. The builder has shown his admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design and layout across the differing sections of the facade. This is also reflected in the original garden wall surrounding the property.
The upper floor extension has the same half-timbered wall treatment as the original gables and it features rough cast stuccoed brick between the wood. The stained glass windows, whilst old, are from the more decorative Art Nouveau period.
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.
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. A large villa like this built in one of the finer pockets of the suburb suggests that it was built for an aspiring upper middle-class family of some means. This villa would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain, even before the extension!
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Here are a wall of glass block with green trim in a beige corner at an emergency exit, and an adorable little construction project with plywood painted green: Bon appétit!, as you exit the building during emergencies.
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In Long Island City, Queens, on September 3rd, 2018, outside Building E (the "Annex Building" or "East Building") of LaGuardia Community College on the north side of 47th Avenue, opposite 31st Place.
The building was formerly the Equitable Bag Company, remodeled/converted by architects Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde from 1989 to 1992 (dates according to page 61 of this document).
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Standing amid a well maintained garden of exotics and standard roses with a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.
Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are starting to appear in the design: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns. This is most noticable in the centre bay window.
This style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and not inconsiderable wealth.
Situated on a large block, complete with tennis courts, behind its original low stuccoed brick wall, this large Inter-War Mediterranean style mansion may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
Built in the suburb of Wendouree in the late 1920s or early 1930s, this villa features classic Inter-War Mediterranean architectural features. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, classical cast iron grillework, formal entrance with Ionic columns, balcony over the entrance and Georgian style fan detailing above the balcony door.
Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very welathy clientele who wantes something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.
This sizable house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and with pretentions of Hollywood glamour, it would have shown considerable wealth.
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Built in the 1880s, "Park Lodge" is a very grand asymmetrical Victorian mansion situated in the finest section of the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.
Built of polychromatic bricks, "Park Lodge" has a wonderful verandah and balcony adorned with elegant cast iron lacework. The roof is made of slate tiles with metal capping. The brown and yellow bricks are constructed in a profusion of geometric designs, which even make the wall treatment a great feature. Even the chimney is built of polychromatic bricks. Perhaps its most outstanding features are the distinctive French inspired Second Empire mansard roofed central tower which bears "Park Lodge's" name in a cartouche over the upper floor windows. This feature makes the property stand out for miles around.
Sadly, the original grounds of "Park Lodge" have been lost in the years since it was built, no doubt a victim to the Melbourne property bust of the 1890s. The widening of the road onto which it faces has also encroached upon its boundaries as has the widened railway line. Nevertheless, the current owners have made the most of the space they do have, planting a formal Victorian style garden in keeping with the house's age. It features a range of topiaries and small hedges. The whole garden is enclosed by an ornate wrought iron fence.
Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Built in the most affluent area of Moonee Ponds, this mansion would have suited a large, wealthy Victorian family of some importance and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain. Today it is still mantained as a private residence.
This pretty stylised clinker brick Art Deco villa with its matching brick wall can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury.
Standing proudly on the corner of an intersection of a busy thoroughfare and a side street, its white wrought iron Art Deco gate encourages you to walk up the garden path hedged by diosmas and exotics to the front door, which has an iron grille to match the gate.
The low slung roof, rounded edging of each wall, large "waterfall windows" of curved glass and geometric pattern on the gate and grille all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Australian Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the late 30s, just before the Second World War.
The facade of a pretty stylised primrose yellow stuccoed brick Art Deco villa in the north eastern country town of Alexandra.
This villa with its low slung tile roof, primrose yellow stucco work, and windows of geometrically patterned leadlight glass windows were very popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy. It has a neighbouring sister villa painted in cream with slightly different windows, but the exact same layout.
Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Taylor Portrait Hand Mirror, ca. 1844
Political Party: Whig
Date Made: ca. 1844
Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsj
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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00666
Title: The Nunnery [Las Monjas], East Building, Uxmal
Photograph date: ca. 1895-ca. 1935
Building Date: ca. 600-ca. 900
Location: North and Central America: Mexico; Uxmal
Materials: gelatin silver print
Image: 6 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.; 17.4625 x 23.1775 cm
Style: Mayan
Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5ss2
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Taylor Portrait Hand Mirror, ca. 1844
Political Party: Whig
Date Made: ca. 1844
Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsk
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
Located on Ballarat’s Doveton Street, the former Lutheran Church was built in 1876 to the grand designs of local Ballarat architect C. D. Figgis and was constructed by Taylor & Ellis.
The church building is architecturally quite striking with a formal composition with elements of a Ruskinian Italian Gothic style. It features with banded brick arches, Lombardic motifs and an attenuated version of a stepped arcaded corbel table leading to the central tower. The tall blind arcading of the tower is similar to the Campanile at Venice. The tower has an arcaded corbel table with trefoil arches, above which is a parapet with quatrefoil openings surmounted by a slate clad pyramidal roof. The lower part of the building consists of more conventional elements. There are two occuli in the gable ends flanking the tower and the banded Gothic openings have nail head brick label moulds. At the base of the tower there are two entrance doors under a Gothic banded arch surrounded by cream brick nail head moulding, and an outer Scotia label mould; these continue down to a low impost height and return horizontally as a string course across the facade. Banded Gothic openings and a patterned string course at low impost height lightens the heaviness of the red brickwork. The side elevation has the same nail head and Scotia string course at impost level rising up as stilted segmental arches over the double lancet windows in each of the five bays. The combination of unusual elements in patterned relief brickwork, and the imposing superimposed Venetian Campanile combine to make this a unique church composition.
Situated on a large block, complete with tennis courts, behind its original low stuccoed brick wall, this large Inter-War Mediterranean style mansion may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
Built in the suburb of Wendouree in the late 1920s or early 1930s, this villa features classic Inter-War Mediterranean architectural features. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, classical cast iron grillework, formal entrance with Ionic columns, balcony over the entrance and Georgian style fan detailing above the balcony door.
Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very welathy clientele who wantes something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.
This sizable house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and with pretentions of Hollywood glamour, it would have shown considerable wealth.
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01049
Title: Durham Cathedral
Building Date: 1093-1128
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1895
Location: Europe: United Kingdom; Durham
Materials: albumen print
Image: 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; 29.21 x 24.13 cm
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5t5s
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: McKinley-Hobart Campaign Buttons and Admission Ticket, ca. 1896
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1896
Date Made: ca. 1896
Measurement: Mount: 11 x 8 1/2 in.; 27.94 x 21.59 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/612f
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As the sun sets, shadows stretch from the columns of Minoru Yamasaki's Education Building at Wayne State University.
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01047
Title: Durham Cathedral, Interior
Building Date: 1093-1128
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1895
Location: Europe: United Kingdom; Durham
Materials: albumen print
Image: 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; 29.21 x 24.13 cm
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5t5q
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Taylor Portrait Hand Mirror, ca. 1844
Political Party: Whig
Date Made: ca. 1844
Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsm
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
The "Brightlea" flats are a two storey complex in the Melbourne suburb of Balaclava. Their facade of white stuccoed brick is very Art Deco in style. The speed lines picked out in clinker brick around the walls, the stepped chimney with its geometric pattern also picked out in clinker bricks, the rounded portico bearing the name "Brighlea" in stylised Deco lettering and the streamlined windows all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture. The low fence with its pyramid peaked pillars are also very Art Deco, and perhaps pay homage to the Egyptomania of the 1920s.
"Brightlea" probably takes it name from Brightlea in England which is located within the county of Tyne and Wear which is in the north east region of England.
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), higher costs of living and the "servant problem" made living in the grand mansions and villas built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras a far less practical and attractive option for both those looking for new housing, and those who lived in big houses. It was around this time, in answer to these problems, that flats and apartments began to replace some larger houses, and became fashionable to live in.
Flats like those found in the "Brightlea" complex would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Balacalva, and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff. With clean lines and large windows, it mirrored the prevailing uncluttered lines of architecture that came out of England after the war.
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Garfield-Arthur "The Union And The Constitution Forever" Portrait Handkerchief, 1880
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1880
Date Made: 1880
Measurement: Handkerchief: 20 x 21.25 in.; 50.8 x 53.975 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/603n
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Taylor Portrait Hand Mirror, ca. 1848
Political Party: Whig
Election Year: 1848
Date Made: ca. 1848
Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsn
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
This wonderful Art Deco walnut case wireless radio was made by the New Zealand manufacturers, Temple. According to its serial number, it was made in 1935 and is very much typical of a wireless found in most middle-class homes during the 1930s. It has a pyramid case; still a popular shape after “Egyptomania” or “Tutmania” gripped the world after the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. Its edges however, are rounded, hinting at the Streamline Moderne style so popular in the mid 1930s. Whilst the fine veneer is a warm walnut, the very Art Deco speaker grille and the two fin details on the front are made of stained blackwood. The manufacturer’s name is picked out in brass on red enamel above the convex glass dial and the lozenge knobs are of mottled chocolate brown Bakelite (an early form of plastic that came into everyday use in the 1920s and 30s). Worked with beautiful glass valves, this radio has to be allowed to warm up before use, but still works beautifully, sending forth a soft, slightly dappled sound that only wireless radios of this era and vintage can do. It can still pick up all AM radio stations as well as shortwave radio from around the world.
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Taylor Portrait Hand Mirror, ca. 1848
Political Party: Whig
Election Year: 1848
Date Made: ca. 1848
Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsp
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
This wonderful Metroland Art Deco Villa can be found in a quiet, tree lined street the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Well proportioned, the stand alone villa with white painted stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns beneath the eaves, above the windows and around the enclosed vestibule was very much the style of home that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s saught. Cottage like in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted. The villa features panes of leadlight glass set in geometric "Jazz Age" patterns in the smaller windows to either side of the larger central panel - a design very popular amongst those who could not afford to have all their windows set with ornamental glass.
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. A villa like this may have required the employment of a "daily" woman to assist the mistress of the house with any heavy chores to keep the villa well maintained.
Ballarat is a provincial Victorian town established during the Australian Gold Rush. For many years it was an extremly prosperous town which demonstrated its wealth through architecture on a grand scale. As a result, there are buildings and public infrastructure from different decades and even different centuries right alongside one another. Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the city does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
Made of and honey coloured clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this neat Metroland villa would have been perfect for a middle-class family.
What makes this villa stand out from its neighbours is its wonderful angular portico which features four white Ionic columns and a very Jazz Age stepped balustrade. Neither strictly Art Deco nor Spanish Mission, this villa is an amalgum of these styles, unique to the interwar period. With a low roofline and simple sash windows without ornamentation, the villa has a cozy and simple style which so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Metroland style, was most popular between the two World Wars, especially in the new garden suburbs and ribbon developments that appeared during this period.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who built homes in the burgeoning suburbs around old town centres around the world. Comfortable and very English, it would have represented the ability to afford chic modernity rather than the fusy Victorian and Edwardian villas of their forebears.
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The drums, cast in bronze using the lost wax method, are up to a meter in height and weigh up to 100 kg. Dong Son drums were apparently both musical instruments and cult objects. They are decorated with geometric patterns, scenes of daily life and war, animals and birds, and boats. The latter alludes to the importance of trade to the culture in which they were made, and the drums themselves became objects of trade and heirlooms. More than 200 have been found, across an area from eastern Indonesia to Vietnam and parts of Southern China. (source: wikipedia)
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Made of locally produced red, brown and clinker bricks this substantial Mock Tudor villa in the Melbourne suburb of Coonans Hill, would have been for a larger sized middle-class family.
This house with its high gabled roof line features wonderful brick detailing across its facade. The decorative nogging in the ornamental niche in the chimney breast, geometric designs around the windows and vents and the stepped design beneath the eaves all pay homage to the craftsman who built the villa. Even the chimneys feature ornamental lines around them.
The Mock Tudor or Tudorbethan style, was most popular between the two World Wars throughout Britain and her dominions, especially in the new garden suburbs and ribbon developments that appeared during this period.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectable and not inconsiderable wealth.
The facade of a pretty stylised primrose yellow stuccoed brick Art Deco villa in the north eastern country town of Alexandra.
This villa with its low slung tile roof, primrose yellow stucco work, and windows of geometrically patterned leadlight glass windows were very popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy. It has a neighbouring sister villa painted in cream with slightly different windows, but the exact same layout.
Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.
Standing amid a well maintained garden of exotics and standard roses with a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.
Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are starting to appear in the design: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns. This is most noticable in the centre bay window.
This style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectable and not inconsiderable wealth.
Standing well back from the street on a very large block behind its original fence, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa would have been built in the decade after Australian Federation in 1901.
The wonderful terracotta tiled roof is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of a plain rough cast stuccoed rendering on the walls with minimal detailing. Red and brown brick detailing fans out above the arched upper gable windows, highlight the curves in the chimney nook and appear in a thick band around the base of the house. The curving of the chimney is also reflected in the entrance pillar and and unlike its more stylised Queen Anne neighbours, this villa has no stained glass in any of its windows, only leadlight panels set in large diamonds in the upper panes.
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. This villa appears to be no exception to the rule, with the entrance to the house to the right hand side of the building.
This style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectable and not inconsiderable wealth.
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), higher costs of living and the "servant problem" made living in the grand mansions and villas built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras a far less practical and attractive option for both those looking for new housing, and those who lived in big houses. It was around this time, in answer to these problems, that flats and apartments began to replace some larger houses, and became fashionable to live in.
By the 1930s, stylish Art Deco flats like these, would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Essendon (the suburb in which these flats are located), and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff. This block of four flats, featuring two dwellings above the others with an interconnecting staircase would have suited a small family, or perhaps a newly married couple for whom this would have been their first home.
This chic Streamline Moderne style building with its flat roof, white stuccoed brick walls, Functionalist windows, speed lines, rounded feature wall and stepped entrance follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war.
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.