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East Melboune, Powlett Street 022

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Auction brochure for auction of Apartment 3, 22 Powlett Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 12 October 2019. Colour photos. Plans

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East Melbourne, Albert Street 097 - Tunbridge Manor

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Colour photo shows a three storey block of interwar flats.  The facade is symmetrical.  The two top, outer windows are of unusual shape, the sides being angled inwards from about half way up.  The central entry with window above leads the eye upward to a stepped parapet, giving a sense of verticality to an otherwise horizontal scheme.

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East Melbourne, Albert Street 097, Tunbridge Manor

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A three storey block of interwar flats.  The facade is symmetrical.  The two top, outer windows are of unusual shape, the sides being angled inwards from about half way up.  The central entry with window above leads the eye upward to a stepped parapet, giving a sense of verticality to an otherwise horizontal scheme.

History: 

A weatherboard villa was advertised for purchase and removal in 1919 after which the land remained vacant until 1934 when work commenced on the construction of Tunbridge Manor.

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 228, 230, Clarendon Flats

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This two-storey building was designed as a block of six self-contained flats.  It is constructed of red brick and forms an important part of the red brick group of 226, 224, 222 and 220 Clarendon Street.

History: 

On 9 Aug 1912 The Herald ran a short article stating that,

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East Melbourne, Gipps 77, Tasma

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The 1920s brought many different architectural styles to Melbourne.  Tasma fits most closely into the Prairie style with its low-pitched hip roof, wide eaves, strong massing, and restrained use of applied ornamentation. In spite of its two-storey height the building retains a sense of squatness and connection to the ground.

History: 

Tasma, 77 Gipps Street was built for Frederick Charles Duncan in 1927. In February the following year he put it on the market when it was advertised as ‘SET of 4 SELF-CONTAINED FLATS, each with 4 rooms, bathroom, S O.  New brick 2-storied Building, just completed.’ The purchaser was Joseph Richard Richardson.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 029

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Art Deco block of flats of three storeys.  A curved section, with three lines of windows running vertically through it, adoins a rectangular section, with windows each of six horizontal panes.

The building was designed by I. G. Anderson in 1941 [see Building History link below].

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 100, Castle Coombe

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Brochure advertising auction of Apartment 6, 100 Hotham Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 21 February 1998. Colour photo. Floorplan. The apartment was passed in but sold soon after for $215,000.

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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 035

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Brochure advertising sale by private treaty of Apartment 2, 35 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. Black and white sketch. According to domain property results the apartment sold for $180,000 in September 1989.

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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 053, Regents Gate

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Brochure advertising auction of Apartment 4, 53 Powlett Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 18 February 1984. Black and white sketch. The apartment sold for $101,000.

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East Melbourne, Vale Street 080

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1933 plans show a red brick single fronted two-storey house with hipped slate roof and two tall chimneys.  The balconies are also of red brick supported by a central brick pillar, and with pierced brick balustrades. The house is now hidden behind a more recent foward extension which looks to have once been balconies but now built in.

History: 

The house was built in 1895 by John Stone for Edward Henry Newing, an oil and colour merchant. He lived there with his wife, Elizabeth, and family until approximately 1909 when he and Elizabeth moved to Brighton and the house was put up for sale. It was then advertised as follows: 

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