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57 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn
57ST BERKELEY HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
57 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn
57ST BERKELEY HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Federation-style villa, Chesney Wolde, and its garden setting on a double-block, at 57 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn is of local significance to the City of Boroondara.
The rear alteration dating to 1995 is non-contributory and can be retained, altered and/or removed as required.
How is it significant?
57 Berkeley Street, Chesney Wolde, is of representative value (Criterion D) to the City of Boroondara.
Why is it significant?
Chesney Wolde is a fine and early example of a house, which is representative of the
substantial villas built south of Riversdale Road during a period of intensive residential
development of this area of Hawthorn between the 1910s – 1940s. This residential
development was stimulated by improved public transport, in particular the opening of an
electric tram line along Riversdale Road to the city in 1916, around the same time
Chesney Wolde was built. The house, built on one of two blocks of the site, demonstrates
the evolution of this part of Hawthorn as a select locality for the homes of the middle and
professional classes and their desire for comfortable living in a garden suburb setting.
(Criterion D).
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