"Suma Park", Residence
2121 Bellarine Hwy, MARCUS HILL VIC 3222 - Property No 272410
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
'Suma Park', formely known as Frankfurt-on Sea, was erected in the 1880s for prominent stud breeder and horse racing entrepreneur James Wilson of St Albans, Whittington. The large single storey dichromatic brick villa in stylistically similar to St Albans homestead of 1873-78 by J.T,Conlon,a Melbourne Architect who most likely designed Frankfurt-on-Sea. Stephen E. Bailey gave the name Suma Park to Wilson's racing establishment after the family property at Orange in N.S.W. 'Suma Park' is a distinctive late Victorian Villa with significant historical associations with Wilson and later Bailey, both prominent racing men. An earlier weatherboard cottage and barn survive.
Reference
W. R. Brownhill, The History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke and Co, Melbourne, 1955 pp.327, 377, 523.
Geelong Historical Society Investigator Vol 17, No 1, 1982, p.30.
Lorraine Huddle, 'James T. Conlon Architect' Dept of Architecture Research Report, University of melbourne, 1979.
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Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
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"Carlyle" ResidenceGreater Geelong City
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"Suma Park", ResidenceGreater Geelong City
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