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Nirvana

East Melbourne, Grey Street 042 - Burchett

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Built 1878 for James Brown and Sons 2 storey brick house with adjacent stables. Brown's son married member of Hunt family which continued the business until 1971. Classified by the National Trust - see index card
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 042, Nirvana

Description: 

A two-storeyed, single fronted house with a cast iron balcony, in the style of a terrace house.

History: 

The house was built for James Peel Browne, livery stable keeper, cab proprietor and coachbuilder. Adjacent stables housed his horses and cabs. Browne's son, also James Peel Browne, lived with his father, and later so too did his wife, Catherine, and young daughter. Confusingly both father and son died in 1905 and the property fell to Catherine.

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