Terrace houses
East Melbourne, Powlett Street 134
Brochure advertsing auction of 134 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 15 November 1998
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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, Powlett Street 140
Brochure advertising auction of 140 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 18 July 1998
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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 013, 015
Pair of fine 2 storey render terraces with elaborate 2 storey cast iron verandah and render details. Flat arched openings to first floor and slender Corinthian pilastered openings with radius corners to ground floor. Palisade fence on scalloped bluestone plinth. Tessellated tile floor and bluestone upstands to verandahs are all intact. [i-Heritage]
This pair of houses was designed by Ravenscroft and Freeman, architects in 1887 and built for James Ford Born by Seccull and Abbot. George Ravenscroft appears to have been self-taught, starting out as a carpenter, then a contractor, finally an architect. Born named No 13 Simpson Street Lynton, and No 15 Torquay.
East Melbourne, Simpson Street 061, Elizabeth Terrace
Brochure advertising auction of 61 Simpson Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 13 July 1996
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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, Simpson Street 142, Belgravia Terrace
Brochure advertising auction of 142 Simpson Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 5 September 1998
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 008
Newspaper clipping advertising the auction of 8 Vale Street, East Melbourne
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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.