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7-10 Bridge Street. Erskineville, New South Wales
This is a row of is actually part of a row of nine (this one of four and another identical row on the street of five) broken by a single storey terrace house in between. While Brian Turner’s book Australian Terrace Houses has a historical photo of a near identical row of seven terrace houses in Erskineville, the book also says that it was demolished, so I’m not sure whether the book is incorrect, that there were once clones of this terrace in the area or that just some of the houses in one of these vestigal rows were demolished. The terraces themselves are straight out of the Victorian Regency textbook with a touch of mannerism, with heavy square columns forming a recessed portico columnade and loggia.
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3-5 Hill Street, Hawthorn. Melbourne, Victoria
3-5 Hill Street. Hawthorn, Victoria
The simple restrained treatment of this row of two double storey terrace Hawthorn houses matches the mood of the sky in this photograph. The design suggests the Regency style, probably in the 1850 and 1860s which is quite old for Melbourne and more of the style which predominates the inner working class suburbs of Sydney. It is situated near a tramway, the original cable trams were not built until 1886, so it may have been built before the trams arrived. Hill Street has many early Victorian villas a mix of modest and elaborate.
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