Mansions of Toorak

Mansions of Toorak
Miles Lewis
St John’s Church
12 August 2010
Rosemount.’ Gardiner’s Creek [Toorak] Road, later 81 River St, early 1840s
E M Robb, Early Toorak and District (Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne 1934), p 19
the subdivision & sale of
South Yarra and Toorak
Hoddle's map of
surveyed lands
north of
Melbourne, 1837
Port Phillip 104
104, sent to
Sydney in February 1838
‘Plan of the Town and Suburbs of Melbourne’, 1843
Statham, Capital Cities, p 222
Hoddle's proposed Richmond subdivision, 1837
Bruce Trethowan
Hoddle's Richmond subdivision, 1838
Bruce Trethowan
Prahran/South Yarra: map with contours at 15' (4.5 m), 50' (15 m), and 190' 57 m)
Anne Neale
Prahran/South Yarra: : Hoddle's survey of 1837, Roll Plan 109
Megan Poulston
'Plan of Allotments adjoining the South Melbourne Reserve, &c.', M/9, 10 June 1840
Roger Wyatt
‘Bona Vista’
Vista’, later 67 Kensington Rd,
Rd South Yarra,
Yarra possibly by John Gill
Gill, c 1846
Robb, Early Toorak and District, p 29
Bona Vista Estate,
South Yarra, 1879
V l plan,
Vale
l
St t Lib
State
Library off
Victoria
‘Bona
Bona Vista’
Vista ,
Kensington
Road, South
Yarra, by
Reed,
Henderson &
Smart,, 1884
from the
south-east
Mil L
Miles
Lewis
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detail of a Melbourne
& Metropolitan Board
of Works map of the
1890s, showing the
Kensington Road
area off Prahran.
P h
Smith & Kirk
Kirk'ss (formerly Brodie & Burchett's)
Burchett s) Victoria Tannery on the Yarra
Yarra, in 1850
unlocated, 2001
Toorak House
Toorak House, attributed to James Blackburn, c 1851-2: view by S T Gill
Robb, Early Toorak, p 54
‘Toorak’, sketch by Jane Cannan, c 1853-4
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
lodge Villa Borghese
lodge,
Borghese, Rome
Charles Parker, Villa Rustica: Selected from Buildings and Scenes in the Vicinity of Rome
and Florence; and arranged for Lodges and Domestic Dwellings (London 1832)
'Rosedale', near Campbell
T
Town,
T
Tasmania,
i c 1830
1830,
remodelled by James Blackburn
1848
old view; modern view
E G Robertson & Edith Craig
Craig, Early
Buildings of Northern Tasmania (2
vols, Melbourne 1964), I, p 50
Miles Lewis
‘Bishopscourt’, Clarendon
Street, East Melbourne, by
Newson & Blackburn, 1850-53
Miles Lewis
tower
bracketted eave
window
i d
arcade
d
quoining
i i
‘Bishopscourt’, Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, by James Blackburn / Newson &
Blackburn, 1850-53
1850 53
Toorak House, attributed to James Blackburn, c 1851-2: watercolour by J D Stone, 1858
Miles Lewis; National Library of Australia
Toorak House, St George's Road, Toorak, c 1851-2
watercolour by J D Stone, 1858
National Library of Australia
Government House,
House Melbourne
Melbourne, by Wardell
Wardell, Clark & Kerr of the Public Works
Department, 1871-6, from the south-west
Allan Sierp, Colonial Life in Victoria: Fifty Years of Photography, 1855-1905 (Adelaide 1972), p 94
Toorak House,
St George
George's
s Road
Road, Toorak
c 1848-51
photograph in 1861
State Library of Victoria, LTL H 690
'Toorak,
Toorak, former residence
of Sir H Barkly,
Governor of Victoria'
byy William Tibbits,, 1878
State Library of Victoria, LTL 612
Toorak House
Miles Lewis
'Toorak
Toorak, former residence
of Sir H Barkly,
Governor of Victoria‘
by William Tibbits, 1878
La Trobe Collection,, State Library of Victoria, LTL 612
Toorak House:
view in the 1890s
A t lA
Austral
Artt B
Bromide
id C
Co, Imperial
I
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Institute Series of Bromide Photographs
of Victoria, vol 1 Homes and Scenery
(Melbourne, no date [c 1894-6]), I,
held byy the Melbourne Club.
Toorak House
Miles Lewis
Tintern, the
bow window
John Collins photo
State Library of Victoria
Tintern, plan of
the
h house
h
iin 1901
1901,
by Inskip & Butler
Melbourne University
Architectural Collection
WD HOU 137, State
Library of Victoria
the Tintern
subdivision
State Library
y of
Victoria
th
the Boom
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‘Orrong’, Toorak Road
later ‘the Grey Lodge’,
corner of Orrong Road
c 1851, extended by
Lloyd
y Tayler,
y , 1885
views in 1853 and c
1934
Robb Early Toorak and District
Robb,
District,
pp 94, 95
‘Greenmount, later ‘Aroona’, Toorak & Williams Rds, by Reed & Barnes 1869-70
Robb, Early Toorak and District, p 86
Aroona
Punch, 24 December 1903
Alexander
Landale
pontificating
‘Lauderdale’
toadying
Mrs Landale
looking
martyred
Aroona
Punch, 24 December 1903
‘II Feel That We Have Come’
Come
‘Lauderdale’ and Senator Simon Fraser at ‘Norla’
Punch, 17 December 1903
‘my carpet slippers
are comfortable,
f t bl
but I can’t sit
straight because of
my piles’
‘Norla’, Irving Road, probably originally ‘Staunton’, by Leonard Terry,
1871, extended by Oakden, Addison & Kemp in 1889
Punch, 17 December 1903
‘Norla’
Norla , Irving
Road, by Leonard
Terry, 1871
north wall of the
Giardino della
Pigna, Cortile del
Belvedere, Vatican,
Rome
Punch, 17 December 1903
Arnaldo Bruschi, Bramante
(London 1977 [1973]), p
102
‘You don’t often see them cut here’
Punch, 12 November 1903
‘The Largest
Co se ato y ,
Conservatory’,
Leura
Punch, 12 November
1903
‘Leura’, by Levi Powell, c 1869-73
Punch, 12 November 1903
‘Tyalla’, Heyington Place, Toorak, extended possibly by Thomas
Watts: watercolour by William Tibbits, c 1882
State Library of Victoria
‘Sebrof', 514 Orrong Rd, Armadale, by Dalton & Gibbins, 1884-6
Miles Lewis
‘Lakeside', Queens Road, South Melbourne, by R Dalton
watercolour by William Tibbits, State Library of Victoria SLV H83.235/5
towers
‘Sebrof'
Sebrof ,
Armadale
‘Lakeside’,
South
Melbourne
Mandeville
Hall
St Georges ‘ Athelstane, Clendon Rd, probably by Charles Webb, 1867
Robb, Early Toorak and District, p 100
'Mandeville Hall', Toorak, west front by Charles Webb, 1878-9
Imperial Institute Album, Melbourne Club
'Mandeville Hall', Toorak, west front by Charles Webb,
1878-9
Mandeville Hall
Mosspennock, 36
Mosspennock
Clarendon St, East
Melbourne, by Charles
W ebb for J L Purves
W.ebb
Purves,
1881
‘Mandeville Hall’, detail of front door glazing
Miles Lewis
'Dhurringhile', figures from the left side of the stair window
Miles Lewis
‘Flora’ at ‘Mandeville Hall’ and at 'Dhurringhile’
Miles Lewis
‘Mandeville Hall’: the drawing room in 1904
Melbourne Punch, 7 January 1904
‘Mandeville Hall’: the
drawing room doors to the
conservatory
Miles Lewis
'Mandeville Hall',
drawing room
ceiling and cornice
in the window bay
Irvine Green
Miles Lewis
Mandeville Hall: drawing room silk before repair.
Chris Payne.
'Mandeville Hall',
drawing room
chimneypiece
Miles Lewis
'Mandeville Hall', detail
of bathroom wall
Miles Lewis
view of the Yarra
courtesy of Philippe Batters
the Toorak Georgian
M H Baillieu house, 729 Orrong Road, Toorak, by H D Annear 1925-7
Miles Lewis
M H Baillieu
house: detail
of frontispiece
Miles Lewis
M H Baillieu
house
Annear’s
drawings
M H Baillieu
house:
detail of
Annear’s
Annear
s plan
Cortile del
Belvedere,
exedra of upper
court:
reconstruction of
Bramante's
original design
B
Bruschi,
hi Bramante,
B
t p 105
M H Baillieu house: drawing room
Miles Lewis
M H Baillieu house: fireplace
Miles Lewis
M H Baillieu
house
the garden
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Miles Lewis
decline & fall
Miegunyah, 641
Orrong Road,
Toorak, 1858
onwards
view from the west
27 January 1913
south front 27
March 1920
Grimwade Albums B & 13,
Melbourne university
Archives
Mabel
M
b l Grimwade
Gi
d att
the bush house,
‘Miegunyah’, 21
April 1913
Grimwade Album B,
Melbourne University
Archives
Melbourne
M
lb
&
Metropolitan Board
of Works property
service file (or
house cover)) for
‘Miegunyah’, 641
Orrong Rd, Toorak,
as connected
t d tto
the system in 1902
MMBW property
t service
i fil
file ffor Mi
Miegunyah
h & stables
t bl
1919-1920; 1921; 1933
Miegunyah, south front and port-cochère, 1 December 1923
Grimwade Album 17, Melbourne University Archives
MMBW property service files for Miegunyah 1933-4; 1934; 1951
Miegunyah, alterations by Stephenson & Meldrum, 1933, elevations & sections
drawing no 4480, Melbourne University Archives
‘Miegunyah’, 641
Orrong Road,
Toorak, in 1933-4:
b
based
d on
Stephenson &
Meldrum s
Meldrum’s
drawings
Miles Lewis
‘Miegunyah’, 641
Orrong Road
Road,
Toorak, as
remodelled by H D
Annear,1920-1921
extrapolating
backwards from
1933-4, using the
MMBW house
cover and
photographs
Miles Lewis
‘Mi
‘Miegunyah’,
h’ 1910
‘Miegunyah’, 1913
extrapolating
backwards using the
MMBW house cover
and photographs
Miles Lewis
Miegunyah,
g y
north
front
O t b 1933
October
modern view
Grimwade Album 23,
Melbourne University
Archives;
Miles Lewis
Miegunyah hall: view eastward and detail of chimneypiece
Miles Lewis
the Miegunyah
workshop, by Philip
Hudson 1919
Hudson,
1919-20
20
view January 1921
modern view
Grimwade Album 33,
Melbourne University
Archives
Miles Lewis
the Miegunyah workshop: the crutches and the
escutcheon: ‘Man became erect for the better
employment of his hands’
Miles Lewis