St James Park Estate, Hawthorn
KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
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Statement of Significance
HO163 St James Park Estate, Hawthorn
The St. James Park Estate, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:
- The place is a Victorian-era mansion estate, developed in the second half of the nineteenth century as Melbourne's wealthier residents sought accommodation away from industry and the cramped living conditions of the inner-city, in a more physically desirable location, but still close to the city. Several of the streets offer broad views of Richmond and Hawthorn East.
- The place contains an exceptional number of individual buildings of historical and architectural merit including Victorian-era mansions as well as large Federation and interwar-era dwellings. Individually significant buildings include Invergowrie and its gate lodge, the Glucksburg trio, Hawthorn House and Zetland.
-The place has important historical associations with Sir James Palmer who erected Burwood (now Invergowrie), and George Coppin who subdivided and sold the area in 1871-1982.
- The place is representative of the growth of Hawthorn as a Victorian garden suburb from the 1850s up until to the interwar period.
-Development in the area also reflected its proximity to rail links (from the early 1860s) and the development of the tram network (c. 1912-3).
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ST JAMES CHURCH AND PRESBYTERYVictorian Heritage Register H0748
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KAMESBURGHVictorian Heritage Register H1186
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BRIGHTON MUNICIPAL OFFICESVictorian Heritage Register H1292
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