Posts Tagged ‘baroque’
57 Morrah Street, Parkville. Melbourne, Victoria
Freestanding Terrace: 57 Morrah Street, Parkville. Melbourne, Victoria
Houses like this freestanding boom terrace style home are my personal favourites and Parkville is a place which abounds in such examples of high Victoriana. Unrendered and painted in mustard to simulate sandstone, this particular home was built in 1882 1 and retains many of its original features. Though it appears to currently be undergoing renovations, hopefully much of its character can be preserved.
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Hollyford: 57 St Vincent Place Sth, Albert Park. Melbourne, Victoria
Hollyford: 57 St Vincent Place Sth, Albert Park. Melbourne, Victoria
Hollyford is a spectacular double fronted Victorian villa in the terrace style found overlooking Albert Parks beautiful St Vincents Gardens. Built in 1873 in polychrome brick and render, this single storey terraced house features incredible detail typically associated with the Melbourne “boom style”.
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67-69 Watkin Street, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales
Photo by: Duncan KimballTerrace Houses: 67-69 Watkin Street, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales. Image by Duncan Kimball
These terrace houses, largely hidden by trees, are of a most unusual design. Looking similar in appearance to a Manhattan brownstone, they feature an exaggerated Italianate mannerist (or baroque) style using stucco and mouldings to simulate heavy stone in stark contrast to the iron lacework inspired filigree terraces of the street.
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Ellendale: 34 Parsons Street, Kensington. Melbourne, Victoria
Ellendale: 34 Parsons Street, Kensington. Victoria
Ellendale is an outstanding example of an (almost) freestanding Victorian Terrace in inner Melbourne. With its more unusual features including a high broken round pediment framing the name cartouche in a temple like motif with classical entablature flanked by balustrade, pilasters with rectangular mouldings and spherical urns in unpainted render (although it appears to be missing the central urn inside the broken pediment). Additionally there are unusual and striking polychrome patterns and banding in cream, brown and red brick. The whole composition creates the effect of an incredibly commanding and solid looking terrace.
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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.
