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'Belmont House' ('Lee Terrace'), 195-9 Drummond St, Carlton, 1872, 1873, 1873 

Miles Lewis

l lodging l d i h houses

'Our Lodgings', later 'Gordon House', 24-38 Little Bourke St, by William Pitt, 1884 


'Our Lodgings', courtyard 


'O L d i ' l f it ith t il t f iliti 

'Our Lodgings', plan of one unit with common toilet facilities 

State Library of Victoria, MUAS collection WD LOD 2

Model Lodgings 

for Families, 

Streatham Street Street, 

Bloomsbury, by 

Henry y Roberts, , 

1850 


Streatham Street Model Lodgings, plan 

J N Tarn, Working-Class Housing in 19th-Century Britain (London 1971), pl 5

Streatham 

Street Model 

Lodgings, plan 

of one unit 

Tarn Working Class 

Tarn, Working-Class 

Housing, pl 4

Stevens' 

Buildings, ud gs, 73 3 

Windmill St, 

The Rocks, , 

Sydney, 1900 

Max Kelly, Anchored in 

a Small Cove: a History 

and Archaeology of The 

Rocks, Sydney (Sydney 

1997), ) p 92

workmen's terrace, Day St, Sydney, built by the 

Sydney Harbour Trust [no date], now demolished 

James Broadbent & Joy Hughes [eds], For the Public Good: Crimes, Follies and Misfortunes, 

Demolished Houses of New South Wales [catalogue] (Glebe [NSW], no date [c 1988]), p 92

Municipal Dwellings, Darling Street, Woolloomooloo, 1924 


Australian experiments

'Queen Bess Row', 72-6 Hotham Street, East Melbourne 

by Tappin, Gilbert & Dennehy, 1886-8 

Mles Lewis

Residential 

Chambers, 

Macquarie St, 

Sydney by J W 

Mawson, 1897 

Building, I, 3 (November 

1907), ) 

p 19

Melbourne Mansions, 91-101 Collins Street, by Inskip & Butler, 1906: elevation 

from a copy of the original drawing

Melbourne Mansions, plans of the ground floor (left); and floors 1-4 (right) 

Arthur Bunbury, 'Melbourne Mansions' (BArch, University of Melbourne, 1950)

Melbourne Mansions 

view by Lyle Fowler, 

19 19511 

detail of iron balustrade 

State Library of Victoria. 

H92.20/4092; Bunbury, 

'Melbourne Mansions'

Bank Place 

Ch Chambers, b 18 18-20 20 

Bank Place, by 

Tunbridge & 

Tunbridge, 1906 

Clements Langford 

Collection, Melbourne 

University Archives

Bank Place Chambers, view of reinforced concrete work in progress 

Clements Langford Collection, Melbourne University Archives

'Ruthven Mansions', Pulteney & Austin Sts, Adelaide, by Black & Fuller, 1911-12 -16) 


Ruthven Mansions, Mansions Adelaide 

tenement block, corner of Cransworth and Great George 

Streets, Glasgow, no date 

Miles Lewis; Frank Worsdall, The Tenement: a Way of Life (no place [Edinburgh] 1979), pl 52

'Ruthven 

Mansions', 

detail 


'residential es de t a flats ats 

on foreshore‘, 

Sydney 

'residential residential flats' flats , 

Neutral Bay, by 

W Newman: 

view during 

construction 

Building 15 August 

Building, 15 August 

1908, p 27; 11 

September 1909, p 47

'Fawkner 

Mansions', 250 

Punt Road, 

Prahran, by 

Ernest H Willis, 

1909-10 

contemporary & 

modern views 

Building 12 February 

Building, 12 February 

1912, p 59; Miles Lewis

19 Park St, 

South Yarra, 

bby GGodfrey df 

& Spowers, 

1912 

Terry Sawyer

Recycling in Edwardian Melbourne

Alexandra Mansions Southgate (Aikman) and Bright Streets South Melbourne 

Alexandra Mansions, Southgate (Aikman) and Bright Streets, South Melbourne, 

an 1870s building converted by Robert Haddon, 1912 

unidentified source

'Cliveden', 192-198 

Wellington Parade, 

EEast Melbourne, 

M lb 

originally by 

Wardell & Vernon, Vernon 

1888: old view and 

view in 1908 

Michael Cannon, The 

Land Boomers 

(Melbourne 1967), p 17; 

St State t Library Lib of f Vi Victoria, t i 

H13434

'Matlock Mansions', formerly 'Vadlure', Dandenong Rd, Caulfield, flat conversion 

by L J Flannagan, 1918: plan, MUAS Collection, State Library of Victoria

Edwardian 

suburban b b flats 

fl t

Clarendon C a e do St Street, eet, East ast Melbourne e bou e 

'Clarendon', 228 Clarendon Street (se cnr Victoria Pde), probably by Joseph Plottel, 

1912-13 

'Victoria House', 214-220 Clarendon Street, by Philip Hudson, 1914 


'The Canterbury', 

236 CCanterbury t b 

Road, St Kilda, by 

HW&FB H W & F B 

Tompkins, 1914 


'The Canterbury' 

oriel window in the corner room of a flat; staircase, looking upwards 


'The Canterbury', view, with no 237 next door 


'Bremen Square', later 'Nelson Square', 101-115 Simpson Street, 

East Melbourne, by Billing, Peck & Kemter, 1914 


H Howard d L Lawson (1) 

(1)

Alexandra Mansions, by 

Haddon 

residential flats, Acland 

Street, St Kilda, designed 

and built by Howard Lawson 

for Mr Butler George, c 1917 

Real Property Annual Annual, 1917 1917, p 71

'H t l M i ' f l th O H t l W b l 

'Hotel Mansions', formerly the Ozone Hotel, Warrnambool, 

conversion by Howard R Lawson, 1920 

Real Property Annual, 1920, p 68

'Cardigan g Terrace', , 

74-98 William 

Street, Balaclava 

before conversion 

after conversion to 

‘Grosvenor 

Mansions’, by 

Howard Lawson, 

1919 

modern view after 

partial reconversion 

Real Property Annual, 


'Toorak Court', 550 

Toorak Road, 

Toorak Toorak, by Howard 

Lawson for F T 

Bird, c 1919 

(d (designed i d as the th 

centre of a group); 

contemporary and 

modern views 


1919 1919, p 64; Terry 

Sawyer

mansions mansions and garden courts

'Garden Court', 61 Marne St, South Yarra (sw cnr Domain Rd), by Joseph Plottel, 1918 


Raymond Unwin's illustration 

of his ‘co-operative 

quadrangle’ 

'Priory Court', Mazenod Ave, 

West Hammersmith, London, 

by y Palgrave g & Co, , before 

1905 

Raymond Unwin, Cottage Plans 

and Common Sense (1902); 

Sydney Perks, Residential Flats of 

all Classes, including Artisans' 

Dwellings; a Practical Treatise on 

their Planning and Arrangement, 

&c (London 1905), p 137

'Mayfair' Mayfair , Marne Street Street, South Yarra Yarra, by Edwin J Ruck Ruck, c 1919 

Real Property Annual, 1918, p 52

the the Arts & Crafts

'Studley', 392-400 Toorak Road, Toorak, by Walter Butler, 1912: an interior view 

Building, 12 June 1912

'Studley', 

original g exterior 

form, and after 

conversion to 

St Studley dl Fl Flats, t by b 

Walter Butler, 

1918 

Building, 12 June 1912; 


Studley Flats, 

plan l 

Real Property 

Annual, 1918, p 44

Studley Flats Flats, 

door furniture 

Miles Le Lewis 

is

Studley Flats, view of courtyard 



terrace, fountain 

and ceramic 

plaque 


Studley Flats Flats, 

'The Cottage‘ 


'Studley Studley Flats' Flats , 

block on 41 

Tintern Avenue, 

view & plan 

Miles Lewis; Real 

Property Annual, 

1918, p 44

Studley Flats, Tintern Avenue block, 

living room showing the serving cupboard to the 

kitchenette, with runcible drawer below; modern view of 

the cupboard


Tintern Avenue 

block block, 

kitchenette 

contemporary p y 

view, and 

modern detail 

of f the h bbench h 

cupboards 

Australian Home 

BBeautiful, tif l 1M 1 March h 



Tintern Ave block 

milk delivery boxes, 

and detail of an 

Indicator 


'Yurnga', 36 Brighton Road, Elwood, by Harry R Johnson, 

1920-21: view & detail of the staircase 


'Hillingdon', 383 

Glenferrie Road, 

Malvern, by F G 

England g ( (designer g 

and owner), 1921 

contemporary & 

modern views 

Real Property Annual 



'Hartpury Court', 11 Milton Street, St Kilda, by A W Plaisted, 1923: lych gate 


'Hartpury Court', courtyard 


'Hartpury Court', double-sided dresser, from the drawing room side 

Sawyer, 'Residential Flats', fig 90

modernist & Spanish

'Langi Flats', by W B Griffin, 1923. ML 1982. 

'Langi', 579 Toorak Road, remodelled by W B Griffin, 1930 


'The The Cloisters Cloisters', 

83 Clendon 

Road, Toorak, 

project j t by b Griffin, G iffi 

1930: 

plan & 

perspective view 

James Birrell, Walter 

Burley Griffin (St 

Lucia [Queensland] 

1964), pp 154, 155

22 Th The Esplanade, E l d St 

Kilda, by W H Merritt, 

1929 

'Larchmont Arcade 

Apartments', p , 

Larchmont, New York, 

by Edward D 

Parmalee Parmalee, before 

1926 

Miles Lewis; R W Sexton 

[ed], American Apartment 

Houses of Today : 

illustrating Plans Plans, Details Details, 

Exteriors and Interiors of 

Modern City and Suburban 

Apartment p Houses 

throughout the United 

States (New York 1926), p 

233

22 The Esplanade, p 

St Kilda: details of 

window & plaque 


Howard Lawson (2)

'Avignon', 51 Darling Street, South Yarra, by Howard Lawson, c 1922 

View; sketch plan, showing possible stair for conversion to maisonettes 

Sawyer, 'Residential Flats', fig 69

'Narooma', 79 Alexandra 

Avenue, by Howard 

Lawson 


‘Kildare’ & ‘York House’, 77 & 75 Alexandra Avenue, by Howard Lawson c 1935 


‘York House', 75 Alexandra 

AAvenue, bby HHoward d LLawson. 

Butler George flats, Acland 

Street, St Kilda, by Howard 

Lawson Lawson, c 1917 

Miles Lewis; Real Property 

Annual, 1917, p 71

'Dorrington House', 73 Alexandra Avenue, by Howard Lawson, c 1934 


73 and 71A Alexandra Avenue, bottom of Caroline Street, by Howard Lawson, c 1936 


124 Caroline Street by Howard Lawson 

124 Caroline Street, by Howard Lawson 


Lawson Grove, off Caroline St, by Howard Lawson 


'Beverly Hills', 65 Darling Street, South Yarra, by Howard Lawson, c 1935 


Beverly Hills 

Apartments, 35 and 45 

East 9th St, New York City, 

by Helme & Corbett, Corbett before 

1926 

Miles Lewis; Sexton, American 

Apartment Houses, p 41

'Moore Abbey', 50-56 Marne Street, South Yarra, by Robert Hamilton, 1934 


'Alcaston House', 2 Collins Street, by 

, , y 

A & K Henderson, 1931-2: Spring Street face 

Terry Sawyer, 1985

Alcaston House 

proposed hotel hotel, 

Boston, by Little & 

Russell 

Terry Sawyer; Pencil 

Points, VII, 9 

(September 1926) 1926), p 

536

'Alcaston House', an interior view; roof garden; plan of a typical floor. 

Journal of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, XXIX, 6 (January 1932), p 162, no page, 151

'The Royal', 

1 Robe 

Street, St 

Kilda Kilda, by 

Archibald 

Ikin, 1933 


'Ostende', Ostende , 4 4Seacombe Seacombe 

Grove, Brighton, by I G 

Anderson, 1934 

perspective p p & views 

Age, 31 July 1934, Miles Lewis

'Dorijo', 456-8 

Victoria Parade, 

East Melbourne, by 

I G Anderson, 1935 


'The Boncap', 47-49 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, by L G Cahn, 1934 


the the minimum flat

interior of a minimum flat shown by Wells Coates at 

the British Exhibition of Industrial Art, 1933 

Architectural Review, LXXVI, September 1934, p 81

kit kitchen h of f a 

minimum flat 

shown by Wells 

Coates at the 

British Exhibition of 

Industrial Art, , 1933 

Dennis Sharp The 

Dennis Sharp, The 

Rationalists: Theory 

and Design in the 

Modern Movement 

(London 1978), p 97

Lawn Road Flats, London, by y 

Wells Coates, 1934: view, floor 

plans, plan and section of one flat 

Architectural Review, LXXVI, 

September 1934, p 77, 78, 81.

minimum flat proposal by Best Overend, 1933 

Australian Home Beautiful, 1 September 1933, p 29

'Cairo', 98 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, by Taylor, Soilleux & Overend, 1936: 

plans of large and small flats; doorhandle in flat 3 

Journal of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, July 1936

'Cairo', 98 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, by Taylor, Soilleux & Overend, 1936: 

interior of flat 3; bathroom doorhandle in flat 3 


'Cairo‘ 

perspective 

view of 

courtyard 

Journal of the 

Royal Victorian 

Institute of 

Architects, July 

1936, ,p p 35; ; 

MUAS 1,365

'Cairo', 

staircase 

MUAS 3,839

alconies at 'Cairo‘ and the Lawn Road flats 

MUAS 3,838; Architectural Review, LXXVI, September 1934, p 80

early y 

modern

34 Docker Street, Elwood, by J H E Dorney, 1938 


'Woy Woy', 77 Ormond Esplanade, Elwood, 

y y 

by Geoffrey Mewton of Mewton & Grounds, c 1936 


'Bellaire', 3 Cowderoy Street, St Kilda, by 

MMewton t & Grounds, G d 1936: 1936 plan l of f a typical t i l flat fl t 

Argus, 9 April 1936

45 Acland Street, St Kilda, by Arthur W Plaisted, 1939-40 


'Castle Towers', 11-21 Marne Street, South Yarra, by A W Plaisted, c 1941-2 


'Newburn 

Flats' Flats , 30 

Queens 

Road, South 

MMelbourne, lb 

by Romberg 

& Shaw, 

1939-40 

plan & 

elevation 

MUAS 22,318; 

22,317

'Newburn Flats', 30 Queens Road, South Melbourne, by Romberg & Shaw, 1939-40 


'Newburn Flats', plan of one flat 

Art in Australia, 1 March 1941, p 73

'Glenulga', 2 

HHorsburgh b h 

Avenue, 

Armadale, by 

Frederick 

Romberg, 1940 

Art in Australia, 1 

March 1942 1942, p 85

'Clendon', 13-15 Clendon Road, Toorak, by Roy Grounds, 1940 


'Cl d ' l f d fl 

'Clendon', plan of ground floor 

Beiers, Houses of Australia (1948), p 86

'Clendon', 

contemporary p y 

views of the gallery 

and a kitchen 

iinterior t i 

George Beiers, Houses of 

AAustralia stralia (S (Sydney dne 1948) 1948), 

pp 84, 86

Clendon Corner, 15 Clendon Road (cnr Malvern Road), by Grounds, 1941 


'Moonbria', 68 Mathoura Road, Toorak, by Roy Grounds, 1941 


‘Moonbria’, the rear court 

, 


'Moonbria', view of a gallery 


'Moonbria', spiral stair & letter boxes 

Miles Le Lewis 

is

'Quamby', 3 Glover Court, Toorak, by Roy Grounds, 1941: plan 

Art in Australia, 1 March 1941, p 78

'Quamby', view from the street 


'Quamby‘: the gallery 


'Quamby' 

stone basement wall on the north side; hit and miss brickwork 


'Quamby' 

kitchen & 

original 

refrigerator 


'Stanhill', 34 Queens Road, South Melbourne, by Frederick 

Romberg Romberg, 1942 1942-1950, 1950 from the south south-east east 

Constructional Review, December 1977, p 41

'Stanhill‘: south-east corner; balconies on the north side 

Constructional Review, December 1977, p 41; Miles Lewis

'Hillstan', 

Nepean 

Highway Highway, 

Brighton, by 

Frederick 

Romberg, 

1950 

MUAS 4800 

MUAS 4800, 

22,319

'Hillstan‘ 

back view 

with garages 

plan 

MUAS 22,320, 

Architecture, 

April/June 1952

'Caringal', 3 

Tahara Road, , 

Toorak, by J H 

Rivett, 1952 

Argus, 4 January 1949, 

p 3; Miles Lewis

'Caringal', 

tower block 

from the 

north 


public public housing

Plan of General Development, Fishermen's Bend, 1929 

Metropolitan Town Planning Commission, Plan of General Development: Melbourne (Melbourne 1929), p 256

State Bank 

housing housing, 

Fishermen's 

Bend, 

aerial view & 

Crichton Avenue, 

c 1929 

Melbourne, Plan 

of General 

Development, p 

255

H i C i i fl t H t 

Housing Commission flats, Hampton 

MUAS 3,734

North Melbourne Redevelopment, model 

MUAS 13,272

Hotham Gardens Development, North Melbourne: view of court area 

MUAS 9,488

'Domain Park', Domain Road, South Yarra, by Robin Boyd, 

of Grounds, Romberg & Boyd, 1961-2 

Domain Park Residential Suites (brochure)

'Domain Park', plans 

Domain Park Residential Suites (brhure)

'D i P k' i t i 

'Domain Park', an interior 

Domain Park Residential Suites (brochure)

Nathan Beller & Co: 3-5 Rockley Road, South 

Yarra; 195 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park 

N. Beller & Co., High Rise Home Units (brochure) ,p 12.

proposed project in Toorak 

Road, by Nathan Beller & Co 

Beller, High Rise Home Units, p 25

52-6 Pasley Street, South Yarra, by Gabor Hubay c 1972, 

demolished by order of the Supreme Court, 1973

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