East Melbourne, Gipps Street 080, Clinton Hall
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This is an elaborately detailed mock medieval block of flats designed to look like one house, with tuckpointed brick quoins and rough render panels. There is a corbelled brick string course and label mouldings over windows. There is an oriel window to the west facade and fine leadlights to all windows. This building is representative of the mock medieval revival style, used elsewhere in East Melbourne. [City of Melbourne i-Heritage database]
These flats are a conversion of an old single storey house. MMBW plans show a small, perhaps four roomed house set well to rear of block, yet there is a small sketch plan in the Building Application file for Clinton Hall which shows a much larger house. It appears that the existing verandah was later converted to a hallway and small study, and a large room with a bay window was added to the front. A search of the Rate Books shows that the original five roomed house became a seven roomed house in 1923.
The old house was built for Alexander Morrison,carpenter (not, as previously thought, headmaster of Scotch College) c.1863
Clinton Hall was designed and built in 1934 by Bernard Evans (later Sir Bernard Evans) for his mother-in-law, Mary Ellis.
Bernard Evans (1905-1981) in the post war years became one of the state's largest developers of flats and apartments. He was Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1958-60 and was knighted in 1962. The son of a builder he studied architectural drawing at the Working Men’s College at night while working for his father. In the late 1920s Evans began building speculative villas. By 1935 he was describing himself as a designer and master builder. His designs were eclectic and in response to his clients’ wishes. In 1937 he travelled to London to complete a commission and while there he was accepted into the Incorporated Association of Architects, and in 1940, after his return to Australia, he registered as an architect in Victoria.
Owners
1933: Mrs. Mary Ellis
1935: Annie Boucher; Bernard Evans; Mary Ellis
1940: Southern Cross Assoc. Co. Ltd.
1944/45: Thomas Bingham
1950/57c.: William David Wallace (6 flats)
City of Melbourne, i-Heritage database: http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/BuildingandPlanning/Planning/heritagepla...
PROV: Blding Appn 21 Dec 1933, VPRS 11201; P1; 180. Plans not found.
Burchett Index, City of Melbourne, Notices of Intent to Build: 17 Dec 1862:
City of Melburne Rate Books (Latrobe Ward) 1864 first mention of Morrison's house
Asutralian Dictionary of Biograhy: Evans, Bernard
The Age, 5 Feb 1969: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l_1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=...
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