Posts Tagged ‘1888’
57-69 Spensely Street, Clifton Hill. Melbourne, Victoria
Terraces (59-69) and Corner Shop (57) in Spensely Street, Clifton Hill
The Clifton Hill estate was developed in the 1870s and with its own railway station opening in 1888 quickly sprouted a number of boom terrace rows. This row of seven (including corner shop) erected the same year in the Queen Anne style and is one of the most consistent and richly decorated in suburban Melbourne.
They were developed by T Smith for Charles Abbott in 18881
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333-337 Lydiard Street North, Soldiers Hill. Ballarat, Victoria
333-337 Lydiard Street North. Soldiers Hill. Ballarat, Victoria
This row of three single storey double fronted red brick Victorian era terraces mid way along the block is probably most notable for sporting a rare piece of Australiana – a kookaburra motif in its iron lacework. According to expert on cast iron lacework Graeme Robertson, just a couple examples of this pattern in use exist, and one of them, at 16 Chatsworth Road, Prahran was demolished a couple of decades ago. This may be the only row of houses existing in Australia with this pattern.
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Hughgendon Terrace: 49-59 Gower Street, Kensington. Melbourne, Victoria
Hughendon Terrace: 49-59 Gower Street. Kensington, Victoria
Hughendon Terrace is a long row of eight double storey boom style terrace houses in Kensington. The elegant white terraces on flat ground form a classically inspired regency style row. The parapet is plain with the exception of a prominent cornice punctuated only by pronounced arched pediments with crested mouldings. Each pair of terraces shares a large roof and the pediment is designed to hide the gable behind as well as giving the appearance of wider individual houses. The name of the terrace is curved inside the first two pediments of the row, one with signage of “Hughendon” and the other “Terrace”.
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Cook Terrace: 249 Coronation Drive, Milton. Brisbane, Queensland
Cook Terrace: 249 Coronation Drive. Milton, Queensland
Cook Terrace is a landmark along the Brisbane River at Coronation Drive. It is a three storey row of six Victorian buildings dating back to 1888-1889.
Cook Terrace is currently used as offices as part of a prominent business park, however the terrace has had a long and interesting history.
It was originally built as flats rather than terrace houses by builder Joseph Blain Cook to exploit a loophole in the Queensland Undue Subdivision of Land Prevention Act of 1885 and avoid subsequent penalties. However like similar houses in Melbourne and Sydney, the row was aimed squarely at well-to-do tenants.
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Nathan’s Terrace: 1-11 Shields Street, Flemington. Melbourne, Victoria
Nathan's Terrace. 1-11 Shields Street. Flemington, Victoria
Nathan’s Terrace is one of the most interesting single storey terraces you’ll find anywhere in Australia. Nearly identical neo-baroque boom style villas front both Shields and Wellington Street in Flemington. The mid terrace is crowned by lions and a coat of arms atop an exageratted pediment and squat corinthian columns flanked by prominent balustrades, urns and corbels verandahs with cast iron filligree and fences. A bay of flanking villas are topped by a giant broken crown round pediments in a Palladian motif with round arch openings and double arched windows with a small awning form a temple style in an elaborate display of exaggerated Victorian Mannerism.
