WALK INTO HISTORY 1 - City of Stonnington...WALK INTO HISTORY 1 Walk into History 1will guide you through some of Stonnington’s most picturesque streets as you discover the fascinating

WALK INTO HISTORY 1

Six more great walks in Stonnington

Di Foster and Steve StefanopoulosMalvern Historical Society

WALK INTO HISTORY 1Walk into History 1 will guide you throughsome of Stonnington’s most picturesquestreets as you discover the fascinatinghistory of each area. Take the time toenjoy the architecture of the buildings,both commercial and residential,particularly in Glenferrie Road and HighStreet, where much of the detail can onlybe viewed from a distance.

As the Stonnington Heritage Markers areinstalled throughout the City, you will findfurther information about many of thesites in these areas.

This book resulted from a series of walksundertaken by members of the MalvernHistorical Society and the authors wouldparticularly like to thank current andformer committe members Jane Nigro,Peter Frawley, Bronwyn Worrall, BarbYuncken, Lorraine Sage, Roxanne Dennisand Kate Witherden.

Walk into History 1 was generouslyfunded by a community grant from the City of Stonnington in 2001 and theEast Malvern Community Bank BranchBendigo Bank in 2009.

Di Foster & Steve StefanopoulosSeptember 2001 (Re-printed withcorrections September 2009)

Malvern Historical Society Inc.www.vicnet.net.au/~malvern

Stonnington History Centrewww.stonnington.vic.gov.au/history

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Copyright © Di Foster & Steve Stefanopoulos

Published by Malvern Historical Society Inc.PO Box 184 Malvern Victoria 3144

National Library of AustraliaCataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Foster, Di.Walk into history 1, six more great walks in Stonnington.

ISBN 0 9579586 5 41. Walking - Victoria - Stonnington - Guidebooks.2. Stonnington (Vic.) - Guidebooks.3. Stonnington (Vic.) - Buildings, structures, etc.I. Stefanopoulos, Steve. II. Malvern Historical Society. III. Title.

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1 Malvern Hill Estate, Toorak 4

2 High Street Shopping Centre, Armadale 10

3 Glenferrie Road Shopping Centre, Malvern 18

4 Valentines & Ranfurlie Estates, Glen Iris 26

5 Ardrie & Repton Estates, East Malvern 32

6 Moorakyne & Stonington Estates, Malvern 38

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Around 84 acres of land bounded by present day Malvern, Glenferrie & Toorak(formerly Gardiner’s Creek Rd) Rds and Denham Pl, were purchased by Englishbarrister Charles Bruce Graeme Skinner in 1853. Skinner planned a village to be named Ledbury after the market town in the Malvern Hills, England, wherehis forebears had lived. The Malvern Hill Estate was divided into mainly smallallotments and streets were named after Skinner’s family - Gertrude (Denham Pl),Russell and Bruce (Benson Ave). Reserves were made for a church and a schooland streets were named School St (Stonnington Pl), Church St and Malvern Hill Rd(renamed Hopetoun Rd in 1901 in honour of Australia’s first Governor General).

In the Malvern Hill Estate, simple huts, cottages and a few brick houses withstables were built and land was fenced for cultivation, market gardens andpasture. The estate included Sharp’s Rope Manufacture, butchers’ shops, acuring house and police station. However, Skinner’s vision of an English stylevillage, complete with church and school did not succeed and much of the land eventually reverted to pasture. Today the Malvern Hotel and the streetlayout are the only reminders of Skinner’s village.

1 The Malvern Hill Hotel was built for Skinner in 1853 to attract purchasers to the estate. (See Heritage Plaque). The hotel was a single storey, elevenroomed weather-boarded building, lined, canvassed and papered, containinga spacious cellar, bar, five parlours, four bedrooms, a detached kitchen, a sixstall stable, sheds and water closet, enclosed with a three rail fence. Thepresent two storey, Colonial style, brick building was erected in 1861 and theVictorian style corner front bar was added in the 1880s. Decorative featureson the front corner were removed in the 1930s.

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2 Lillirie (1089 Malvern Rd), was built from 1856 when Neil McLean owned abrick house, blacksmith’s shop and forge, and a market garden, on 3 acresof land. The Victorian style house was enlarged by his merchant son Henry,in the 1880s.

3 On the north west corner of Malvern & Hopetoun Rds, Marcus Barlow’sHopetoun Flats, built in 1940, stand on the site of Holmby a large QueenAnne style villa with tennis court, built in 1897 to the design of architectBeverley Ussher, for metallurgist, Henry Noyes. Glenhome (3 Hopetoun Rd)with its three matching projecting gables and leaded glass casement windowsand portico featuring a Tudor arch, is an Old English style house designed byarchitects Arthur & Hugh Peck in 1932. The Old English style house at 6,designed by architects Walter & Richard Butler in 1925, stands on the site ofTatiara, built in 1864 for architect Samuel Merrett and later owned byFrederick Cato, a partner in the chain of grocers’ stores, Moran & Cato.

4 6 Church St designed by architect Rodney Alsop in 1927, was featured inThe Australian Home Beautiful, July 1930.

5 1 Denham Pl, built in 1889 is a Victorian style house with ashlar blockfaçade, ogee profile verandah roof supported by Gothic style timber posts in pairs with lancet arches and cut out trefoils and quatrefoils.

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6 On the block bounded by Church St, Hopetoun Rd, Stonnington & DenhamPl, Frenchman, Armand LaMoile, ran the Malvern Hill Water-cureEstablishment from 1861-1865. The Hydropathic Establishment offeredboard, including residence, treatment and bath attendance, at five guineasper week and an omnibus ran daily from South Yarra railway station. Anadvertisement described the establishment as elevated, and commanding anextensive view of the Bay and the Dandenong Ranges; the neighbourhood isrichly wooded; the grounds contained many appliances for the recreationand exercise of the patients; the air is celebrated for its purity and bracingqualities. The domestic arrangements are conducted by Mrs LaMoile, whoseexperience and competency, also in the water-cure, ensure to ladies everypossible attention and comfort. ...After business the cure-guest, might cometo Malvern, in the evening take the cure, enjoy afterwards its pure andbracing air and the various amusements provided for the recreation of thebody and mind; sleep at the establishment, take the cure once again in themorning and be in town by ten o’clock.

7 Architect Rodney Alsop designed Tongaboo (6 Stonnington Pl) in 1916. TheGeorgian revival style flats at 5, designed by Marcus Martin and erected in1924, contained two bedrooms and a maid’s room each. The Marcus Martindesigned house at 7, with a Juliet balcony and French doors over the archedentry, terracotta tile roof and textured rendered walls was featured in TheAustralian Home Beautiful, January 1933.

8 In 1890, Kola was built on the north east corner of Hopetoun Rd andStonnington Pl for ironmonger Peter Langwill. The fifteen room mansionencircled by a verandah included a reception, dining, morning, smoke andsewing rooms, maids’ hall and a terracotta tiled candle snuffer. In 1910 itwas renamed Narveno by Dr Albert and Eva Meares. Narveno wasdemolished in the 1960s.

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9 22 Hopetoun Rd was built in 1932 and features a hipped terracotta shingleroof, slightly belled out over the eaves. The Old English style house Somerset(26), was built in 1929. In 1932, Cedric Ballantyne designed the Old Englishstyle house at 39 which features a low level entry driveway leading to agarage beneath the ground floor, a steeply pitched terracotta shingle roofpunctuated by tall clinker brick chimneys, an octagonal turret and retains itsoriginal garage doors and stone fence. In 1933, Robert Hamilton designedthe Georgian Revival style house at 54. In 1936, A Mortimer McMillandesigned 68, an outstanding example of the streamline International stylewhich retains its original letterbox.

10 Grosvenor was built in 1883, on the corner of Toorak & Glenferrie Rds fordraper George Meares (Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1879-1881). Grosvenorbecame the home of theatrical entrepreneur Sir George Tallis, who for overfifty years was associated with the firm of theatrical managers, J.C. Williamson’s.In 1922 Tallis was knighted for services to theatre and wartime fundraising,and a film was made at Grosvenor of ballerina Anna Pavlova on a stageerected by carpenters from His Majesty’s Theatre. In the 1930s Grosvenorwas a venue for receptions, dances and charity fundraising. Grosvenor wasdemolished in 1935. 11 Grosvenor Crt, designed in 1937 by Bernard Suttonis a two storey, ashlar block sandstone residence.

11 Carn Brae (429 Glenferrie Rd) formerly Nullegai, is an Old English stylehouse built in 1927 and features a large and imposing terracotta shingledroof with curved eaves and tapered chimneys. Leicester Sq was created in1956 on the site of Myvore, a large Federation style bungalow house built in 1901 for solicitor Robert Meares.

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12 Benson Ave was named after Robert Glover Benson, Chairman of the GardinerRoad Board 1864-66, 1869/70, Gardiner Shire President 1876/77, Malvern ShirePresident 1880/81, 1885-1887, 1889/90 and Councillor 1862-1892. Tatra (3Benson Ave) was designed in 1933 by Walter Butler and features ashlar sandstone.Ledbury Crt (formerly Medindie Crt) was created in 1932, with the subdivision ofMedindie (formerly The Elms) built in 1866 for solicitor David Braham. The Elmsfeatured hot water throughout the property including all main bedrooms, kitchenand bathrooms, had accommodation for three maids, and the gardens included atennis court, croquet lawn, two conservatories, fernery and fountains. The firm ofBraham & Pirani were solicitors to Malvern Council for a century.

The horizontal moderne lines of 8 Ledbury Crt, designed by A Mortimer McMillanin 1935, are reflected in the windows, balustrade and flat roof. 6, the Old Englishstyle house designed by Hughes & Orme in 1935, features clinker bricks in thegable. 2, an Old English style cream brick house, features a half timbered maingable, and angled window frames. 1, a Georgian Revival house retains its originalshutters and features a crest and the year, 1934.

13 Hillingdon apartments (383 Glenferrie Rd), were built in 1918 to resemble a single house. In 1883, Doona, a large Victorian style mansion was built for barrister Henry Bournes Higgins on the south corner of Glenferrie Rd and Stonnington Pl. Higgins was a father of Federation, a Member of the first Commonwealth Parliament, a High Court Judge and President of theArbitration Court. Following Higgins death in 1929, Doona was sold anddemolished. (See Heritage Plaque)

14 22 Stonnington Pl is a neo-Georgian style house, the first to be built on the DoonaEstate in 1929. 1 Cross St, erected in 1890, is the only terrace in the estate.

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By 1870 the only development along High St included a market garden and a‘beer shop’, along with a few scattered dwellings. This rural atmospherechanged in 1879, when the first train ran through Armadale Station. This newmethod of transport, coinciding with the boom years of the 1880s, led todevelopment in High St. From 1890, a variety of traders and storekeepers,including bootmakers, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, tailors, dressmakers,milliners, upholsterers, ironmongers, saddlers, tobacconists, butchers, grocers,produce merchants, greengrocers and fuel merchants established theirbusinesses. The first trams on 30 May 1910, confirmed this area as a thrivingshopping strip, with its variety of traders, manufacturers and retailers. In2006, the Melbourne Commonwealth Games baton was carried along High St.

1 At the time the tramway was being constructed with ornamental polesdown the centre of the road, grade separation was required to avoid thelevel crossing. The rail cutting was excavated and the line from Hawksburnto Malvern was duplicated and the earlier Victorian style stations weredemolished. The Federation style station at Armadale, designed by J.W.Hardy, chief architect for the Department of Way & Works around 1914,features red brick and stuccoed walls with green inlet tiles, hippedterracotta tiled roofs and tall chimneys with terracotta pots.

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2 The shops on the corner of Morey St retain one of only two remainingoriginal, post support, cast iron verandahs in Stonnington. Many other similarverandahs were removed to modernise Melbourne for the 1956 Olympics.

3 In 1906, the horse drawn bus, which travelled from Prahran Railway Stationalong High St to the Malvern Shire Hall, proved more reliable than the steampowered bus, which ran for only twelve months. (See Heritage Plaque)

4 Next to the Armadale Picture Theatre (928), that operated from 1913-1939,was the Armadale Post Office. The single storey, timber building with timberpost support verandah was erected in 1884. In the same year, the postmasterreceived an annual allowance of £6 to handle over 6,982 mail articles. Thered brick Post Office, erected in 1924 was demolished in 1996.

5 Kings Arcade (974-978), formerly the Armadale Arcade, was built in two stages,the first in 1893, incorporated three, two storey shops/residences with a connectingarchway leading to the station. The façade features gable ends crowned withterracotta lions and a bull nose verandah with cast iron frieze. The second stage in1923 created the shops lining the arcade, which feature leaded glass and tile workdesigned by J.W. Hardy. Around 1910, the State Bank erected a new red brick,Federation style premises (953) featuring ‘SB’ in the leaded glass.

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6 In the 1880s the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney erected their chamberon the south west corner of High St & Kooyong Rd (formerly MacArthur Rd, thenBoundary Rd, reflecting the boundary between the two former municipalities –Malvern and Prahran). In 1887 the row of shops diagonally opposite was erected.The Bank of Victoria occupied the corner shop from 1912-1925. From the 1870sThomas Kempton operated the Boundary [grocer] Store on the south east corner.

7 The building with its distinctive bay window on the corner of Baldwin St waserected in 1888 and occupied by Albert Kosky J.P. followed by a nurseryman. In 1908 Herbert Lock, operated a newsagency from the premises. In 1899,Emma Baker’s Mission Hall was located between Baldwin & Moorhouse Sts.1037 features a red brick façade, projecting bay window and recessed entrance.Note the identical row (1039-1043) of single storey, Victorian style shops.

8 In 1885, wine merchant John Moran occupied 1044, which features an ornatefaçade with his name in the pediment and old telephone numbers and signs atstreet level. Albany, Corringa, Boya and Duri (1056–1062) are a row of Victorianstyle shops with raised, triangular pediments, brass framework shop fronts, leaded glass, tiles and early signs at street level.

9 In the 1860s a 4 roomed “beer house”, later known as the Halfway House Hotelthen the Highbury Hotel, was established by Alexander Smith on the west cornerof William St. Extensive alterations were undertaken to the façade of the ArmadaleHotel in the 1920s and in the 1980s, prior to its closure in 2005.

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10 The façade of 1065 retains a side arched entry to the first floor and a blind firstfloor window. Note the green tiles and rising sun motif on the red brick façade of1067. A semicircular pediment and shell with parapet orbs feature on the façadeof 1069-1073, some of which retain their original brass framework shop frontsand recessed entrances.

11 Victoria House (1088–1090) is an asymmetrical building with oriel bay, artnouveau moldings, original shop front with beveled glass and doors and mosaictiled entrance. 1092 features a now enclosed, first floor verandah, typical of manyinner city, two storey terrace houses.

12 Moran & Cato grocers occupied two single storey shops (1108–1110) erected in1919 featuring gum leaves on the parapet. In 1888, Alan Martin and Joseph Kingestablished a coach building business “Martin & King” west of Huntingtower Rd.During WWII, Martin & King produced aircraft parts at their new premises on theeast corner of Huntingtower Rd, which had been occupied by the Malvern BuickTaxi Service. (See High St Heritage Plaque)

13 The asymmetrical, two storey building (1118) with dominating bay window abovea side arched opening flanked by stumpy columns, was erected in 1901 andsoon after occupied by chemist J.A. Ballantyne and dentist J.M. Ballantyne.

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14 A Masonic Hall established in 1919 occupied 1127-1129. West of the hall in1920, Miss C Williamson conducted a School for Domestic Economy. In 1940,west of the hall, was the Christian Science Library.

15 1156-1160 feature polychromatic brickwork with raised, triangular pediments,original shop fronts and glazed tiles. 1162-1166 is a row of highly decorated,Victorian style shop façades with orbs and blind balustrade parapet.

16 1202-1204 features three lions atop the pilasters and Lindley’s Buildings (1206-1210) feature highly decorative orbs, pediments and blind balustrade below thewindows, which had cast iron balustrades.

17 In 1909, King & Wilson moved their parcel business from Collins St to 1195 HighSt. The building features Art Nouveau motifs, imitation shingles and large orbs.King & Wilson later established a household removal company and in 1920Archibald Wilson purchased his partner’s share and closed the parcel business inorder to concentrate on removals and storage. During the depression, a wood andfuel supply company was purchased on the corner of Mercer Rd and followingWWII, the removal business moved to this site which was redeveloped in 2002.

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18 In 1938, the Sustenance Office was located at 1203. 1205-1207 featurerare incised motifs above the windows on the first floor façade.

19 1223 features a panel of blue tiles below the triangular pediment whilst1225 features a curved parapet incorporating Art Nouveau motifs and firstfloor window hoods supported by corbelled brickwork.

20 1250 features an incomplete first floor indicating the position of proposedwindows. 1260-1262 are single storey shops featuring pressed metalparapets above the verandahs. Wilton Page Estate Agent and Seed & PlantMerchant occupied the site of the present arcade adjacent to 1268, whichfeatures one of the few remaining, pressed metal, cantilevered verandahs.

21 In 1887, auctioneers and estate agents Munro and Baillieu, auctioned theTown Hall Estate on the south west corner of Glenferrie Rd & High St. TheTown Hall Buildings since rendered, originally featured Hawthorn brickfaçades and triangular pediments.

22 From 1890, the Malvern Boys’ College followed by the Tradesmen’s(Malvern) Club, occupied part of the present site of the Malvern City Square.In 1924, a row of shops along High St from Glenferrie Rd, designed byarchitect Walter Burley Griffin, was built. By 1971, the Malvern Council hadacquired most of the 0.34 hectares and created a temporary square. On 22April 1989, the new square was opened by Malvern Mayor, CouncillorJanice Carpenter. (See Heritage Plaque) ‘The Sun and the Moon’ sculpturesdesigned by artist Paul Juraszek, are classified by the National Trust ofAustralia (Victoria). (See Plaques)

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23 Land on the corner of High St & Glenferrie Rd had been reserved for a ShireHall, courthouse and Library in 1878. It was proposed to erect a hallcapable of holding 400 people, Court House, rooms for a Magistrate, Clerkof Petty Sessions, Shire Secretary, a Public Reading Room and Library. TheHon. Alfred Deakin, Minister for Public Works (Prime Minister of Australia1903-1904), laid the foundation stone on 22 September 1885 and thecompleted Malvern Shire Hall, designed by architects Wilson & Beswick,was opened in 1886.

Additions to the Shire Hall in 1890 included the northern tower used by thefire brigade as a lookout tower and an extended Glenferrie Rd façade. Abrass plaque at the base of the main tower commemorates the presentationof the clock in 1891 by Alexander McKinley (Malvern Councillor 1885-1920,Shire President 1890–93, Mayor 1900/01, 1910/11 & 1918/19). McKinleywas proprietor of several Melbourne newspapers including Punch andBulletin and MLA for Toorak. In 1926, architects Hudson & Wardropundertook extensive alterations on the public offices and built a new CouncilChamber, main hall, supper room and an extended High St façade. In 1996,the Stonnington City Council completed renovations to what is now theStonnington City Centre. (See Heritage Plaque)

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From the 1850s, market gardens, nurseries and a few houses on largeallotments lined Glenferrie Rd (formerly Barkly Rd after Governor Sir HenryBarkly and renamed in 1872 after the Kooyong mansion Glen Ferrie). This ruralatmosphere changed in 1879, when the first train ran through Malvern en routeto Gippsland. This new method of transport to the previously isolated districtresulted in a building boom and the development of a thriving shopping centre.From 1890, a variety of traders and storekeepers, including bootmakers,blacksmiths, wheelwrights, tailors, dressmakers, milliners, upholsterers,ironmongers, saddlers, tobacconists, butchers, grocers, produce merchants,greengrocers and fuel merchants lined both sides of Glenferrie Rd, Station Stand the railway end of Claremont Ave. In 2000 and 2004, the Olympic torchtravelled along Glenferrie Rd.

1 39 Station St features a leadlight vaulted ceiling and an elaborate façadewith bay window. In 1881, Adolphus Francis Alway (Malvern Shire Councillor1894-1902 and President 1898/99) established an estate agency andauction rooms in Glenferrie Rd, prior to moving to 47 Station St. WhenAdolphus died in 1923, his son Frank (Malvern Mayor 1935/36 andCouncillor 1930-1960), then his grandsons John & Colin and his greatgrandson Geoff, ran the business until 1980, when it was sold to Thomson’sReal Estate Agency. 49 is an Art Nouveau style building with a recessed sideentrance under the tower, bay window and Dutch gable. Elliott Cairnes EstateAgent occupied 55 prior to moving across the road to 2 Claremont Ave(formerly Railway Rd).

A.F. Alway & Son Estate Agent, Station St, 1918


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2 1 Claremont Ave erected in 1891 features decorative swags and orbs. 9retains its brass framed shop front with glazed tiles and leaded highlights.12-18 retain their original, timber framed and tiled shop fronts, recessedentrances with terracotta tiled floors and 25 retains most of its originalfeatures including casement windows.

3 In 1874, Smith Ellis, Malvern Shire Secretary wrote to the Commissioner ofRoads and Railways requesting that the proposed Gippsland railway shouldpass through Malvern. The first station building erected in 1878/79 wasreplaced by the present station, now on the Victorian Heritage Register,when the line was re-graded from South Yarra to Caulfield around 1914.(See Heritage Plaque)

4 The Gardiner Hotel (later the Railway) on the corner of Dandenong &Glenferrie Rds, boasted Victoria’s first bowling green in 1862 and alsoprovided facilities for cricket and pigeon shooting. (See Heritage Plaque).Dandenong Rd features the earliest remaining, ornamental cast iron tramwaypoles in Melbourne erected in 1910 and the largest tram waiting shelter,designed by Leonard Flanagan, chief architect for the Prahran & MalvernTramways Trust.

5 From 1922-1987, the Californian bungalow style Hoyts Cinema, designed by architect Howard Lawson, occupied the north west corner of Glenferrie & Dandenong Rds. Pepperells Buildings (13–27 Glenferrie Rd) with someoriginal shop fronts were erected in 1889.

6 1-11 Station St and 12-22 Glenferrie Rd are two rows of shops featuring ArtNouveau motifs, glazed tiles and elaborate brass shop fronts with leadedglass. Architect Robert Haddon designed the Art Nouveau style building onthe north corner of Evandale Rd, which features an octagonal belvedere.

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7 Undertaker Herbert King first occupied 35. The former English, Scottish andAustralian Bank (47) designed by Oakley & Parkes in 1925 is dominated bytwo ionic columns supporting an elaborate cornice. The former Bank ofVictoria (32) was designed by Bates & Smart in 1923 and altered for theCommercial Banking Company in 1941 when the State Bank relocated to 53 which once featured a red brick façade.

8 Turner’s Buildings (60–64), erected on the site of a brick Union BaptistChurch built in 1873, and McAuley Buildings (50–58) feature elaboratefaçades.

9 The cream brick, moderne style, former dairy (107 Wattletree Rd) designedby Norm Smith in 1940 includes a clock tower. In 1987, Malvern CentralShopping Centre was opened on the site of Howson St, which was lined with over thirty, single fronted, timber houses. In 1910, the IndependentOrder of Odd Fellows - Friendly Society, occupied a hall on the east corner of Wattletree Rd and Howson St, which was later known as Malvern CentralHall and occupied by the Plymouth Brethren.

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10 In 1860, Robert Alway established “Wattle [general] Store” on the south westcorner of Glenferrie & Wattletree Rds in 1860. The store was later operated by his nephew Adolphus Francis Alway. The site is now occupied by a row of shops erected in 1902 featuring elaborate florid decoration above theleadlight fanlights on the first floor. The former Australasian Bank on the northwest corner, designed by A & K Henderson was erected in 1927. On thesouth east corner, the Italianate style bank, designed by Gibbs & Finlay wasbuilt in 1914. The shops on the north east corner (86-96) feature brassframework, leadlight glass and pressed metal cantilevered verandahs withlight fittings from the 1920s. At that time, the shops on the corner (86–88)were rendered and the building extended along (115-125) Wattletree Rd. TheVictory Theatre (127 Wattletree Rd) opened in 1921 and closed in the 1950s.

11 The building constructed for H.G. Appleford (109 Glenferrie Rd) as a printingstore in 1891 and Jenner’s Buildings (111), both feature encaustic tiles. TheMalvern Post Office, (117) erected in 1899 had its first floor added in 1904. From 1919-2000, the post office was located in a large, two storey, red brickbuilding in Llaneast St. Dimboola (129) was erected in 1923.

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12 The former Hattams store (104–106) was erected in 1888 and features a coat of armswith a kangaroo and emu. Next door is the site of a former timber Presbyterian Churcherected in 1885 and later moved to nearby Pine Gve. Adjacent to 108, which featuresan elaborate wrought iron parapet grill, was Muntz Photographic studios, operated byphotographer, David Livingstone Muntz from 1898 until his death in 1923. The firsttheatre in Glenferrie Rd, The Tivoli, opened in 1913 in Victoria Hall, which featured threecurved bay windows on the first floor, two topped with domes and one with a cast ironbalustrade. Fire destroyed the building which was then replaced by the Car Park Arcade(116-120).

13 Bank managers often lived above their banks, such as the former CommercialBank of Australia on the corner of Llaneast St, designed by Carelton & Carelton in1927 and built on the Llaneast Estate. The bank was built on the site of Llancast,a weatherboard house occupied in the 1880s by Hussey Malone Chomley, PoliceCommissioner 1881-1902. Adjacent to the bank is a row of moderne buildings.The moderne style bank on the corner of Edsall St, erected in the 1940s, featuresstrong horizontal lines. (See Glenferrie Rd Heritage Plaque)

14 Note the name of the owner on the parapet of the Cornwell Building (155), erectedin the 1920s on the site of James Williams Nursery, established in the 1870s byhorticulturist Daniel Webley. On 10 May 1928, the Malvern Council opened its firstpurpose built Baby Health Centre in Barkly Ave. (See Heritage Plaque)

15 In January 1883, the former Union Baptist Church, south of Wattletree Rd, wasre-opened as a Congregational Church. In 1886, the memorial stone for a newCongregational Church on the south corner of Winter St was laid by Mrs J.A.Devenish. In 1889, the nave was extended, and a second foundation stone waslaid by Mrs W.S. Willis. The Hawthorn brick church, designed by Billing & Son,the manse and timber hall were demolished in 1966 for a Coles New Worldsupermarket (See Plaque) and the foundation stones were moved to EwingMemorial Church, Malvern East.

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16 The first Malvern Star bicycle was made at 185 Glenferrie Rd by champion cyclistThomas Finnigan in 1903. World champion cyclist Hubert Opperman joined thebusiness after it was sold to Bruce Small in 1920. (See Heritage Plaque) 180-186 is a row of shops featuring a recessed, first floor verandah with cast iron frieze.

17 In the 1940s the office for the Malvern Spectator newspaper was on the south sideof Union St opposite the row of shops featuring a corner belvedere. 207 features adistinctive parapet, urns and florid 1888 lettering and 198 features a statue of akangaroo.

18 When the first tram ran from the Malvern Tram Depot (See Heritage Plaque) in 1910,Glenferrie Rd featured ornamental tramway poles down the centre of the road.

19 In 1855, Coldblo, a five roomed brick house was erected on thirteen acres forRobert Wilmot Sitwell on land now occupied by the Tram Depot. In 1892, the ColdBlo Estate was subdivided into residential and commercial allotments. The MalvernMarket, then the Embassy Theatre (later Metro) (1936 –1987) replaced a large twostorey house, which occupied the south west corner of Stanhope St. The Edwardianstyle building at 238 – 240 retains its original shop front but the entrance to agarage has been enclosed by a shop.

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20 251 features brass framework, leaded glass and recessed entry with mosaic tiledfloor. Dixon’s Buildings (255 – 263) are a row of Victorian style shops built in 1889.

21 The former red brick fire station in Willis St designed by architects Oakden &Ballantyne opened in 1906 and closed in 1988.

22 273–275 Glenferrie Rd, designed by Pitt, William & Walkley in 1921, retain theoriginal shop fronts and the adjacent shop features a Moderne style parapet withgeometric signage erected for a “provision merchant and licensed grocer”.

23 In 1885, the ES&A Bank purchased land on the south east corner of High St andsoon erected a single storey bank which was later extended to include a secondstorey residence for the manager. In 1959, the present building, now on theVictorian Heritage Register, was constructed by Swanson Bros to the design of thebank’s architectural department headed by Stuart McIntosh in conjunction withW.L. Irwin & Ass. and Prentice Builders. The composition of planes and solids, areexpressed in the use of oversized deep fins, dark polished granite, strip windows inpink tinted glazing, a large second storey cube faced with Gosford sandstone, and anow much reduced garden planter box of Castlemaine stone. The interior features ametal sculpture by Charles Bush who studied at the National Gallery of VictoriaSchool, and later taught there from 1954-55.

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Malvern, Wattletree & Burke Rds (formerly Charleville Rd and re-named tocommemorate the explorer Burke, of Burke and Wills) and High St, weresurveyed in 1854. This area is of historical significance due to its associationwith three nineteenth century mansion estates, Brynmawr, Ranfurlie andValentines, which determined the development of the surrounding streets. Thesubdivisions of the Ranfurlie and Valentines Estates coincided with improvedpublic transport and after the First World War, an improved economy. Malvern’sfirst tram which ran to Burke Rd in 1910 and the High St tram, which wasextended to the terminus at Glen Iris in 1914, resulted in the development of the area.

1 The San Jose Spanish Colonial Revival flats on the northeast corner ofWattletree & Burke Rds, were erected in the 1930s and feature decorativebrickwork and large clamshells above the windows.

2 Valentines was built in 1891 for the Hon. John Mark Davies MLC, on 25acres (10 hectares) of land fronting Burke Rd. The 40 roomed mansion,designed by architect Thomas Watts, was named Valentines, after Davies’former homes. Davies served as Minister of Justice in 1890 and SolicitorGeneral and Attorney General in 1891. He was mainly responsible for theVoluntary Liquidation Act (1891), the cause of significant controversy in theDepression, which followed the Land Boom. In 1892, Davies resigned fromCabinet and from the Board of the Commercial Bank, of which he wasChairman. Three years later, he lost his seat in the Legislative Council andresumed private practice as a solicitor. He re-entered Parliament unopposedin 1899 and served as Attorney General from 1902-1908. He was Presidentof the Legislative Council from 1910-1919, for which he received aknighthood. In 1911, Valentines was subdivided, creating Harold & WillobyAves, Fairview Gve and the western end of Dorrington Ave. Afterunsuccessful attempts to sell Valentines, the mansion was converted toapartments and known as Valentines Mansions. In 1923, Malvern GrammarSchool purchased the property and re-located the school from Kerferd St,Malvern East at the start of the 1924 school year. Following an affiliation withCaulfield Grammar School in 1960, the building was named Malvern Houseand is now part of Caulfield Grammar School. The mansion is classified bythe National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and is on the Victorian HeritageRegister. (See Heritage Plaque)

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3 22 Harold Ave, erected in the 1930s, features fish scale designs in the gable. 19 Dorrington Ave, erected in 1915 features an unusual corner tower. Note themoderne lines around the porch of the Old English style house at 23 DorringtonAve. 2 Dorrington Ave features imitation fish scales in the gable.

4 Kurana (12 Willoby Ave) is an attic villa erected in 1925. 4 is an Old English style villa.

5 Valentines (437 Wattletree Rd), is a Federation style villa erected in 1912 for SirJohn Mark Davies. 437A, is an Old English style house built by E.L. Moore in1931. Designed by Oakley & Parkes in 1933, with Selney (439) featured on theletterbox, retains its original wrought iron gates. The glazed brick house at 443,erected in the 1930s, features intricate brickwork and tiled roofs over the baywindows.

6 5 Fairview Gve features multi paned, double sash windows and shingles for theexternal walls of the dormer attic. Designed by architects Sloan & Goss in 1917,the bungalow at 13, features an open verandah over the front porch, small baywindows and rendered chimneys. 8 Dorrington Ave, featuring an elaboratedormer, was erected in 1921.

7 Valentine Heights Estate created sixty two building allotments in 1916, fromFairview Gve to Malvern Rd. 39 Dorrington Ave is a Spanish Mission style housewith clamshells over some windows.

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8 Attunga (19 Valley View Rd), is a rendered bungalow, with curved walls, bays andporch. 18, is a salmon brick, Old English style villa. 16, erected in 1926, featuresTuscan columns and an unpainted rendered fence.

9 447 Wattletree Rd features original window hoods for the external blinds.Mowandee (449) is a rendered bungalow with fish scales and timber lattice. Note the shields in the leadlight windows at 459 Wattletree Rd.

10 In 1920, 33 choice allotments on the newly created Karana Pl, Allenby Ave andFerguson & Stanley Sts were sold as part of The Oaks Estate. Vallambrosa (25Allenby Ave), erected in 1929 is a Spanish Mission style villas comprising twoconnecting gabled wings, a dominant chimney and an attached entryporch/loggia. The house features a Cordova tiled roof, unpainted rough trowledwalls finished in natural sand color, twisted columns and shouldered arches of a Spanish character.

11 1722 Malvern Rd is an Old English style house erected in 1930. 1718 is anunpainted rendered villa with timber hoods on the outside of many of thewindows.

12 40 Grandview Rd with its glass tower was designed by Peter McIntyre in 1988.Hassell Green (38) and Gorminden (36), are Spanish Mission style villas withbarley twist columns.

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Little Everton, 1894

13 Haulfryn (26 Ranfurlie Cres), a Spanish Mission style house erected in 1930features barley twisted columns, timber window hoods, semicircular archedwindows and a terracotta tiled roof. Mosaic tiles are used to create the nameplate and house number on the fence. Anroth (24) is a two storey renderedhouse designed by C.H. Richardson in 1921 with a large curved bay window.Note the mosaic tiled name plate on the fence and the original garage withleadlight windows. Birches (22) features clinker bricks and rendered porch.

In 1913, Grandview Gve, Kialla Ave and Ranfurlie Cres were created as partof the Ranfurlie Heights Estate, which was advertised as “Malvern’s mostglorious estate”. Kialla Ave is thought to follow the line of the former carriagedrive to Everton.

14 Note the air vents in the timber shingled gable at 1592 High St. 1590 is abrick bungalow featuring a projecting corner bay window and curved upperstorey lookout. Benwerrin (1580) is a two storey bungalow with elaboratewrought iron gateway and timber and roughcast fence. 1578 designed bySchreiber and Jorgensen in 1922 features unpainted roughcast dressing,basement air vents, flower boxes and a window bay. 1566 is an elevatedresidence comprising ground floor with wrought iron balustrade verandah,basement, an attic storey and a pressed metal air vent. Otway (1562) has apressed metal gable. Note the scalloped window hoods at 1556.

15 The western end of Ranfurlie Cres was subdivided in 1912 as the RanfurlieEstate. 3 is a brick bungalow with tessellated tiled verandah and chainsupported window hoods. 19 was designed by architects Oakden &Ballantyne in 1918 and 21 is a Queen Anne attic storey house erected in1918, featuring a tuck pointed façade.

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16 In 1870, Judge George Briscoe Kerferd (Premier of Victoria 1874-1875), purchased a weatherboard house with kitchen, servants room, dairy, stables, fruit trees, vineyardand pasture on 25 acres of land overlooking the Glen Iris Valley. Kerferd named theproperty Everton after the village in England where his forebears had lived. In 1886,Kerferd had a two storey, brick mansion of 13 rooms, designed by architects Dalton & Gibbins erected adjacent to the earlier house Little Everton. Little Everton was laterrelocated to the south corner of Malvern & Grandview Rds and occupied by AnnKerferd until 1915. Following Kerferd’s death in 1889, the property was sold to theHon. William Knox (Malvern Shire President 1893-1895 and Councillor 1892-1910)who renamed the house Ranfurlie and extended the mansion and added a ballroom.The Melbourne Hunt Club met at Ranfurlie. In 1914, Miss Akehurst, principal ofKorowa Anglican Girls’ School, purchased Ranfurlie, and moved her school fromWattletree Rd. Ranfurlie, (Knox House) was demolished in 1974 and the original gates are in Ranfurlie Cres. (See Heritage Plaque).

17 In 1857, Michael Keeley purchased 9 acres of uncleared bushland and had a twostorey, eight roomed house erected facing Burke Rd. According to Keeley’s diary, theplans for the house were provided by architect George Wharton. Keeley, born inIreland in 1831, became the licensee of the Parliamentary Hotel, a member of theGardiner Road Board (1860/61) and a Melbourne Councillor. In 1867, two years afterKeeley’s death, the property was sold to Waldron Johnston, who owned the adjacentland fronting Wattletree & Malvern Rds. The following year Robert Morgan becamethe owner of the property. It is thought that Morgan, who came from a Welsh family,named the house, Brynmawr, meaning the ‘high hill’. In 1888, the Sisters of theSacred Heart purchased Brynmawr and opened their school, which had beenrelocated from Balaclava. In 1890 the three storey, red brick attic wing wascompleted, followed by the chapel in 1904, designed by Tappin, Gilbert & Dennehy.The organ and a number of other fixtures and fittings were shipped to Australia fromconvents in France, where religious orders were disbanded by decree from the anti-clerical government. The northern wing of Sacre Coeur was never completed to itsoriginal design.

Brynmawr, Convent of theSacred Heart, c.1900

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1 In 1917, Malvern Council purchased 71/4 acres of land for £2,300 at the rearof properties in Repton Rd. In 1918, a “very attractive [gardener’s] cottage”and motor garage were erected and the park was laid out with a serpentineavenue of 12 year old elm trees which had been removed from Paxton St.Shrubbery borders were planted and a cricket pitch was proposed. In 1923,17 horses and cows were impounded, having been found in the park. In the1930s one of the gardener’s jobs was to take bunches of flowers from thegarden to each of the Councillor’s wives on a Saturday morning! In 1924,local builder and developer J McCleery presented the Council with two pairsof gates for Wilmot St & Repton Rd. The Wilmot St gates may have beenlater relocated to the Ardrie Rd entrance. In 1982 it was proposed toestablish a Day Centre in the cottage. The cottage was rented out prior to itsdemolition in 1997.

2 Repton Rd (formerly Lord St) is lined with single, block fronted, freestandingFederation style houses erected in 1914 – 1915. Many of the houses appearto have been built by the same builder, Robert McCulloch, and immediatelysold. The roughcast rendered gable ends of the cottages are all slightly different.

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3 37-39 and 36-50 Ardrie Rd (formerly Rob Roy St) are timber, single frontedFederation houses erected in 1915 – 1916.

4 Dairyman, Samuel Love, purchased land on the north west corner of Moama &Emo Rds in 1914 and built a 5 roomed weatherboard house. In 1923, theproperty included a dairy with stables. In 1937, the present moderne style dairywas erected with a wash room and stables and continued to operate until 1966.The building has since been converted to a house, complete with a milk can letterbox.

5 46-58 Emo Rd are a row of timber, single fronted, Federation style houses erectedin 1915.

6 Emo Rd surveyed in 1888 was originally known as Grace St, then Beech Stfrom 1891, Fern St from 1893 and Emo Rd from 1919. 3–13 Emo Rd are agroup of Victorian style houses erected in 1889. The Pines (13) is a timberblock fronted house with original slate roof. Note the iron frieze on the returnverandah and the manufacturer’s name at the base of the cast iron verandahposts. Kadina (7) & Kiama (11) are mirror images of each other, and 9features a decorative timber façade. Elaine (3) is a block fronted timber housewhich retains its original front door and surround as well as its patterned tiled,slate roof. Lolma (5) was originally identical to Elaine.

7 In 1910, Charlie Chitty established a timber yard in Caulfield. In 1923, Chitty’sTimber Yard moved to 2 acres of land on the north west corner of Dandenong& Warley Rds. The business closed in 1989 and the timber mill, offices,storage sheds, stables and workers’ cottages were demolished in 1995 (seeHeritage Plaque).

8 4, 6 & 8 Kilmuir Rd are three decorative Federation style houses erected in1914 – 1915. Note the rare iron cresting on the roof of 4.

9 36-26 Moama Rd are a row of single fronted houses erected in 1916 – 1917.

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10 The Californian Bungalow at 32 Ardrie Rd was built in 1924. Note theimitation render (pressed metal) verandah posts. 22–26 Ardrie Rd erected in1917, are a row of Edwardian houses featuring an unusual timber dado.Wingarvis (22) retains its original Art Nouveau verandah frieze. Note therising sun motif at the gable ends and verandah freeze of both 10 & 12, theunusual diamond shaped windows in the front door, the ‘bull’s eye’ windowto the left of the doors and the decorative weatherboard.

11 Note the highly decorative, roughcast cement façades at 49 – 43 Warley Rd.

12 The foundation stone for the large asymmetrical, red brick and cementrendered, Masonic Temple on Dandenong Rd, was laid on 30 September1922 by the Most Worshipful Brother F.T. Hickford Pro Grand Master. Thetemple designed by architect Leslie Reed and built by F Davies, featuresstained glass windows and a grand, two storey portico with large pillars andcurved balcony.

Previously located on the east corner of Dandenong & Burke Rds was a row oftwo storey, Victorian style shops built in 1889. In 1889, Church services wereheld in a portion of the building for the East Malvern Presbyterian congregation.R Howarth, news agent; Henry Wobbe, wicker work manufacturer; theCaulfield Steam Laundry Co; A Machefer, wood turner and toy maker as well asthe Fiske Bros. Motor engineers occupied the building prior to its demolition inthe 1950s. A Plymouth Brethren brick church, designed by architect ArthurPlaisted, was erected in 1920 on the corner of Burke and Moama Rds. Thechurch later became the St Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church, whichrelocated to nearby Epping St in 1983. The building was demolished in 1989.

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13 On 13 November 1913, the tram line along Balaclava & Waverley Rds fromHawthorn to Darling Rds was opened. The moderne style shop at 119Waverley Rd was erected in 1939. At 129, note the shop front, tiles, signage,pressed metal cantilevered verandah with light fitting of the formerdelicatessen erected in 1934.

14 In 1924, Swastika Garage (118 Waverley Rd) was the first in the former Cityof Malvern to be issued with a permit for curbside petrol pumps.

15 The pair of single storey shops at 161 – 163 Waverley Rd, erected in 1920,were first occupied by a grocer and a music and stationery store. Both shopsfeature highlight tiles in the piers on the façade and retain evidence of earliersignage. Both 165 (c.1920) and 167 (c.1916) were first occupied by a tailor,Edward Jenkin. 169 was first occupied by a fruiterer and 171 was originallyoccupied by a hairdresser.

16 On the east corner of Tennyson St (150 – 154 Waverley Rd) are three largeinter war shops erected in 1924 and first occupied by an estate agent,McKay’s Butchers and Mrs. I. Cornish, fruiterer and confectioner.

17 The two Victorian shops erected in the 1890s (185 & 187 Waverley Rd),were first occupied by Mrs. J.W. Watson fancy goods store and agreengrocer. In 1909 the greengrocer moved to the new, two storey shop at 189 and became a hay and corn merchant.

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18 In August 1886 Rev John Ewing commenced ministry in the Toorak Parishand soon after conducted church services for the Presbyterians of EastMalvern in the shops on the corner of Burke & Dandenong Rds. On 15March 1891, a timber Presbyterian Church was opened on the east side ofthe entrance to Ardrie Park in Waverley Rd. The church was named afterEwing who had died of typhoid in 1890. After the church was relocated toBurke Rd in 1896, two tennis courts were erected at Waverley Rd. Thecourts were asphalted and formally opened on 14 January 1911. The sitewas sold in 1964 and new tennis courts were constructed in Ardrie Parkand the tennis pavilion was relocated next to the courts.

19 In 1913, land north of Silverton St in Hughes St (named after William [Billy]Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia 1915-1923) & Fisher St (named afterAndrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia 1908-1909, 1910-1913, 1914-1915), was auctioned as part of the Tramway Terminus Estate. Land south of Silverton St was auctioned in 1916. The German street names, Bismarck(Hughes St) and Fischer (Fisher St) were renamed during WWI. In 1972, theEast Malvern Senior Citizens Centre was opened by Thomas H King (MalvernMayor 1937/38, 1951/52 1966-1968 1972/73 and Councillor 1933-1978).

20 In 1931, local architect Leslie Reed designed the butter factory inDandenong Rd, on the corner of Fisher St. By the 1940s, a fur dryer, selfraising flour manufacturer, fuel merchant and a cycle and motor worksoperated in premises in Dandenong Rd, west of Darling Rd.

21 A two roomed weatherboard house was erected in 1858 for farmer WilliamPiper Brown in Dandenong Rd. In the 1880s, Rostrevor (2 Langville Crt)had increased to fourteen rooms and included a piggery and stables on 31acres. In 1923, Langville Crt was created by the owner Ferdinand Lange,who gave the street its name.

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In 1849, seventy two acres of land bounded by present day Glenferrie, Malvern &Toorak Rds, were purchased by Robert Ansruther Balbirnie. Balbirnie subdivided theland into 7 allotments, 3 of which were sold to Peter Cousin and his son James.

1 On the site of Stonington, the Cousin family built a weatherboard house withorchard & garden, on 9 acres fronting Glenferrie Rd. In 1882, the familyprovided accommodation for the Territorial Commander of the Salvation Armyand prayer meetings were conducted in the barn. In 1886, Cousin sold theproperty to John Wagner, a partner in Cobb & Co. coaches. In 1890 Wagnerhad Stephen Armstrong build Stonington, the 40 room mansion with stablesand gatehouse (note the iron cresting), to the design of architect CharlesD’Ebro. Wagner lived with his family at Stonington until his death in 1901,when it became the Vice-Regal residence for seven Governors of Victoria. It was during that period that the spelling of the name was changed toStonnington. St Margaret’s School occupied the property from 1931-1938.From 1938 the mansion was used as an aftercare centre for polio patients andfollowing the outbreak of World War II, the property was occupied by theAustralian Red Cross as a convalescent hospital. Stonnington was home toToorak Teachers’ College from 1957-1973; the State College of Victoria, Toorakfrom 1973-1981 and in 1981 became the Toorak Campus of Victoria Collegewhich merged with Deakin University in 1992. In 1994 the mansion revertedto its original name – Stonington when the City of Stonnington was formed. In1992 the property was given to the University by the State Government and in2006, Deakin University sold the property for over $30 million. The mansion,gatehouse and surrounding landscaped areas were subsequently re-sold for$18 million as a private home and the eastern portion of the estate developedinto apartments, town houses and maisonettes. (See Heritage Plaque)

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2 In 1913, the western end of Somers Ave (originally State St, then Wagner St)was created as part of the Woodmason Estate. 16 Somers Ave, designed byarchitect F.L. Klingender in 1935, is an old English style house with aterracotta shingle and jerkin head roof. 18, erected in the 1930s, featuresdiamond shaped windows and clinker bricks.

3 In April 1935, the kitchen gardens east of Stonington were subdivided aspart of the Stonington Fields Estate. 28 Somers Ave is a Georgian style house designed by Harry Norris in 1936.

4 35 Somers Ave is a moderne style house featuring etched glass and astriking glazed brick arch over the front door.

5 Building allotments on the east side of Wilks Ave and the west side ofHenderson Ave were created in 1925 with the subdivision of the MoorakyneHeights Estate. 7 Wilks Ave has a Georgian style oriel window in the gableand 9, designed by C. Stewart Russell in 1934, has an octagonal tower. Note the end of the estate marked by the bend in the concrete roadway.

6 2 Wilks Ave, designed by Keith Storey in 1934, features a balcony withwrought iron supports and balustrade, symmetrical façade on Robinson Stand a window under the chimney with original shutters. 11 Wilks Ave wasdesigned by J.F.W. Ballantyne in 1933.

7 1 Henderson Ave, an Old English style house designed by Arnaud Wright,features decorative brickwork and an underground garage. 3 was designedby Cowper, Murphy & Appleford in 1932 and 9, designed by RobertHamilton in 1930, features decorative wrought iron gutter supports. 11 designed by J.F.W. Ballantyne in 1932, is a Georgian style house with a blind column balcony above the entrance. 15 designed by Ballantyne &Wilson in 1934 features a moderne style, wrought iron balcony. 19 wasdesigned by Marcus Martin and 21, designed by Phillip Hudson in 1934,features half moon gutters and wrought iron supports.

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Rosehill, a 9 roomed brick house with outhouse and a gardener’s house oftwo rooms, was built around 1856 on 20 acres at the corner of Glenferrie &Toorak Rds, for William Philpott and his wife Rosetta Whilhelmina Rucker. In1880 Thomas Cumming purchased Rosehill which included offices, stables,coach house, brick and stone out-house, shrubbery and pasture. In 1888,Mayfield & Chesterfield Aves were created with the subdivision of the GreatToorak Estate. The land, subdivided by solicitor Walter Lewis (Mayor ofMalvern 1904/05, 1909/10 and Councillor 1902-1910), was originally part of the Rosehill Estate. Lewis demolished Rosehill and built his own houseErskine (demolished), on the cnr of Glenferrie Rd and Mayfield Ave.

8 19 Mayfield Ave, the gothic style bluestone building, was built prior to 1869,as part of the Rosehill estate. The building was used as a private chapel andlater pastoralist Alexander Creswick used it as a harness room and to househis groom/trainer. From 1919–1926, the building was used as a chapel andassembly hall for Toorak College. A group of buildings, including the chapel,which became known as the Mayfield Centre, were leased to St Margaret’sSchool. In 1940 the WAAF established a training depot at the Centre andfrom 1942-1945, Wesley College – Junior School occupied the site. From1949-1963 the Australian Red Cross ran the Melbourne School of Nursing at the Mayfield Centre, followed by the Hospitals and Charities Commissionwho established a Centre for Hospital Training. The site was sold andredeveloped in 1995, with only the bluestone building remaining.

9 Chesterfield (6 Mayfield Ave), was designed by Phillip Treeby in 1891, andoriginally faced Chesterfield Ave. Chesterfield, a Queen Anne style housefeaturing half timbered gables, was also the home of Sir George AdlingtonSyme (1859-1929) a brother to David and Ebenezer Syme, founders of TheAge. In 1924, on retirement from practice, George was knighted and in 1927he became the first President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

10 1 Chesterfield Ave is an Old English style house designed by Hudson &Wardrop in 1927 featuring half timbering and shingle gables.

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11 On the north east corner of Glenferrie Rd and Chesterfield Ave is an unusualFederation style house with fish scale shingles in the gables, an oriel window,Californian style bungalow balcony, an Art Nouveau arch over the stainedglass window and wrought iron supports for the window hoods.

12 Brancepath (678 Toorak Rd), featuring a pressed metal candlesnuffer roof andvery decorative and tall chimney pots, was built in 1902 for former StateGovernment pathologist, Dr Robert Cole.

13 378 Glenferrie Rd is a Georgian style house and 376 is an Old English style houseboth erected in the 1930s.

14 Katanga on the north east corner of Glenferrie & Hamilton Rds was designed byHarold Desbrowe-Annear in 1931 as a “total environment”, which included thegarden and garden wall, outdoor spaces, interior decoration and built-in furniture.Katanga is on the Victorian Heritage Register.

15 368 Glenferrie Rd features a curved window hood, iron balcony and original frontfence designed by Marcus Barlow in 1933. 4 Hamilton Rd was designed byOakley & Parkes in 1928.

16 (Sir) Thomas Nettlefold (Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1942-1945 and Councillor1930-1941) commissioned architects Godfrey & Spowers to design 6 HamiltonRd in 1928, the same year he saw the Davis Cup played in England on the newen-tout-cas surface. In 1930, Nettlefold purchased the neighbouring land andhad built what is thought to be, one of the earliest en-tout-cas courts in Australia.In 1952, Julius Pollack (Mayor of Malvern 1970-1972, 1978/79 and Councillor1966-1991) purchased the house. Pollack ran a successful textile business andwas the only manufacturer of camouflage material for the Australian soldiersduring WWII. He was a member of the Organising Committee Executive for the1956 Melbourne Olympics and captained Australia’s Fencing Team.

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17 Hamilton Cl, designed by architects Bates, Smart & McCutcheon in 1979, is onthe site of Glenbervie. Glenbervie, designed by Francis Maloney White, was builtin 1883 on 13 acres of land fronting Glenferrie Rd for pastoralist Suetonius HenryOfficer and his wife Mary. Glenbervie, named after the birthplace of the Officerfamily in Scotland, was also known as Malvern House. In 1907 new owner,pastoralist and racehorse breeder, Alexander Creswick, re-named the houseYarrien. In 1919, the Hamilton sisters re-located their school, Toorak College, from Douglas St, Toorak, to Yarrien. Essington Lewis, an industrialist and WartimeDirector of Munitions, purchased Yarrien in 1926, the year he was appointed to theBoard of B.H.P. Lewis renamed the mansion Kooringa after his birthplace in SouthAustralia. The estate was subdivided and Kooringa remained in Hamilton Rd.Kooringa was later occupied by Wesley College, then country children with polio or cerebral palsy, and prior to its demolition in the 1970s, by a State Governmentrun childrens’ home. (See Heritage Plaque) 16 Hamilton Rd, designed by Irwin & Stevenson in 1933 is an Old English style house.

Glenbervie, c.1890

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The Main Entrance Gate to Moorakyne, c.1932

18 Wilks Ave was named after Rupert de Clare Wilks, Mayor of Malvern 1911/12 &1916/17 and Councillor 1909-1921. 19 was designed by Frederick Romberg in1952. Carramara (18) features an unpainted façade and front fence.

19 15 was designed by Marcus Martin in 1933. Note the glass above the front doorof 12, designed by Charles Hollinshed in 1932. 8 was designed by Arthur &Hugh Peck in 1933. Chartres (6) was designed by P.A. Jenkins in 1931. 4 Wilksis an Old English style house featuring diamond shape glass and window box.

20 Moorakyne was designed by architect Charles D’Ebro and built by StephenArmstrong in 1889 for barrister, John Grice. Grice was Chairman of the NationalBank, Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and his services duringWWI earned him a knighthood in 1917. In 1901 Grice sold Moorakyne toAnthony Bowes Kelly who made his first fortune as a shareholder in B.H.P. andhis second in the Mount Lyell copper mine in Tasmania. Kelly was a director ofB.H.P. for 45 years, a director of several banks and companies and a MalvernShire Councillor (1892-1902). Following Kelly’s death in 1930, the MoorakyneEstate was subdivided and Moorakyne Ave created with a bend in the road toallow retention of the mansion. Moorakyne was demolished in 1936.

17 & 14 Moorakyne Ave were designed by Walter & Richard Butler in 1933. 10,designed by Bates, Smart & McCutcheon in 1933 features half timbering. 11, anOld English style house was designed by Arnaud Wright in 1934. 5 was designedby Joseph Plottel. 2 designed by Phillip Hudson in 1934 features a clinker brickground floor and rendered first floor façade.

Front cover photo:Glenferrie Rd, Malvern looking south, from Llaneast St, 1915

Back cover photos:Elliott Cairnes, Estate Agent, Claremont Ave, Malvern, 1905.

Swastika Garage, Waverley Rd, East Malvern, c.1930

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