House at 38 Geelong Road
38 Geelong Road, FOOTSCRAY VIC 3011 - Property No NCPR
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Statement of Significance
Architecturally, a skilful and restrained design, in the Moderne manner, whichrelies on understatement of detail and simple integration of geometric massing. Historically, the home of one of Footscray's prominent industrialists.
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House at 38 Geelong Road - Physical Description 1
Footscray's largest house in the Moderne manner, it is set in ample grounds, still possessing its landscaping (including a large camphor laurel) and decorative iron and brick front fence. It has a hipped roof, with Marseilles pattern tiles, in much the same form as previous styles. However the corner windows, horizontal steel-framed glazing and cemented window hoods are some of the accessories which made it decidedly new in its outlook, compared to the previous revival styles at the east end of Geelong Road (numbers 2-10). It was austere, had smooth rendered walls and no unnecessary ornament, except for the sand etched design around the entrance door. Its massing also was measured and simple and its direct Footscray parallels were in the commercial sphere (see Metters offices, Gordon Street).
House at 38 Geelong Road - Integrity
External Integrity
Generally original.
House at 38 Geelong Road - Physical Description 2
Streetscape
Separated from the other grand and interesting houses of the early 20th and late 19th Centuries, by unrelated multi-unit development, it is perhaps the last of the big houses erected by Footscray's elite prior to the blighting effects of Geelong Road traffic.
Heritage Study and Grading
Maribyrnong - City of Footscray Urban Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1989
Grading:
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FORMER BARKLY THEATREVictorian Heritage Register H0878
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.253Victorian Heritage Register H1713
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FOOTSCRAY RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1563
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