Terrace houses
East Melbourne, Powlett Street 138, 140, 142
On the left of the photo is a pair of houses numbered 140-142 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The facade of No 140 has been covered in the once fashionable concrete breeze blocks, since restored. On the right is 138 Powlett Street, known as The Opera House because of its unusual curved balcony.
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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 013
Brochure advertising auction of 13 Gipps Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 5 March 1988. Black and white sketch. Floorplan. The house was passed in on the day and sold two months later for $431,500.
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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 140
Auction brochure for auction of 140 Simpson Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 6 October 2018. Colour photos. Plans.
The property was sold for $2.27 million.
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 14, 16, 18, 20
A group of four tuck pointed red brick dwellings with a single yellow brick string course and pebble dash dressings. The substantial two storey verandahs are of timber and terracotta tiles to the roof. This terrace is an important example of the use of red brick and timber in a deviation of the Queen Anne style. [i-Heritage database]
These four houses were designed in 1904 by Ussher and Kemp and built by Joseph Hollow for John Foster Paterson, painter and decorator, merchant. Ussher and Kemp are considered now to be the pre-eminent architects of the Queen Anne or Federation style.
East Melbourne, Vale Street 26, 28
These buildings are contributory to the predominant use of red brick and terracotta tiles in this street. They are an adaptation of a rather suburban style to terrace house building. The design of each is deliberately varied so that the buildings appear as one whole. A successful use of the corner location to emphasise the turret and bay window. [i-Heritage database]
These two houses were built in 1910 by R J Wilson of Ormond Road, Moonee Ponds for Henry Fowler Ransford, customs agent. Henry Ransford never lived in either house but his two sons, Vernon Seymour Ransford and Clive Ainslie Ransford lived in the corner house, No 28, until about 1919. They called this house Chandos.