Long Acres
15 Range Road, Olinda VIC 3788 - Property No 58331
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Statement of Significance
Longacres comprising a two-storey timber bungalow and caretaker'scottage, studio/shed, sheds and the garden at 15 Range Road, Olinda.
How is it significant?
Longacres, 15 Range Road, Olinda is of State historical significance.
Why is it significant?
Of state historical significance as the home of Sir Arthur Streeton, oneof Australia's great landscape painters. Longacres is the only remainingproperty belonging to Streeton and the buildings and grounds remain muchas he left them. He planted much of the garden himself and used thegarden as inspiration for his still life paintings of plants.
Longacres was often visited by Streeton's eminent artist, academic andmusician friends including Tom Roberts and Dame Nellie Melba
Aesthetic significance because the house and grounds are left much asthey were in Streeton's time there. RNE Ctriterion H1
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Long Acres - Physical Description 1
Longacres is a one-and-a-half storey unpainted weatherboard house with bands of timber shingles in the gables. The roof is half-hipped with a variety of dormers (both gabled and skillion). The roof is clad with corrugated metal.
There is a caretaker's cottage and a garden studio on site, constructed of fibro-cement sheets in an imitation of half-timbering.
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra Ranges - Shire of Yarra Ranges Heritage Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2000
Grading:
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LONGACRESVictorian Heritage Register H1876
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LongacresNational Trust H1876
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Main Ridge, Dandenong RangesNational Trust
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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10 Down StreetYarra City
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