Camberwell Conservation Study 1991 Vol 3 - City of Boroondara

Camberwell Conservation Study 1991- Significant Areas
Precinct 3, Hillcrest Estate (part) immigration's boom must have been directed at
This estate includes significant groups of late 1920sand entrepreneurs.
1930shousing. Not surprisingly, Nungerner Street's housing stock is
dominantly of the mid-to-late 1930s; only sites like Dum-
History bers 1, 3 and 36 being close to the advertised sale period.
The HiUcrest Estate of 1922 included Nungerner and Like many of the 1920s estates, the Great Depression
Metung Streets, their names arising from picturesque delayed their development until a noticeable recovery in
East Gippsland lake-townsand probably used to conjure the mid-1930s.
up the romance of these newly developed resorts. Lots
sold there at about the same time as the Central Estate Description
which adjoined on the south.' This was the North Ward Nungerner Street
of the Camberwell municipality,where 268 buildings had The street trees are in period (Quercus sp., Grev. robustat,
been erected in the last 12 months, (two existed on the with interesting houses including those from the 19205
estate already). A 'magnificent sports and recreation and 1930s and the individually notable Number 3, in the
ground of about 30 acres' lay 'almost opposite' the estate, SpanishMission style. This building faces Numbers 4 and
(BalwynPark). The viewswere 'glorious' to distant Mt. 6 in the Old English style and adjoins other variants on
Macedon and the Great Dividing Range. 2 There was 1920s and 19305 brick houses designs. For example,
also the electric tram in Whitehorse Road, '...8 minutes Number 13 is a Georgian revival house, two-storey, disfrom
the estate' and other lines were proposed by the tinctive, individually notable. There is mixed new
Tramways Board? A reference in the advertising to development from 16 onwards to the north, on the west
3l'.'UNGERt"{ER STREET: SPANISH PORCHM'DQUAINTATTIC
1 LPll260, plan216 CCL
2 ibid.
3 ibid.