An Arts and Crafts Mansion - East St Kilda

            Built on the grounds of the once large "Saint Sidwell's House", this large Arts and Crafts mansion stands on the corner of Sidwell Avenue and Balaclava Road in East St Kilda. 

Built between Federation (1901) and the years just before the Great War (1914 - 1918), the roughcast stuccoed wall treatment of the mansion and the stripped back brick and tile decoration around the balcony are very Arts and Crafts inspired as is are the rounded bay windows featuring leadlight glass. 

This mansion of grand proportions must have been built for someone of affluence with a large family who took advantage of the subdivision of the "Saint Sidwell's" estate in the early Twentieth Century.  At the time of photographing, this mansion's own fate is questionable.  Divided into flats some years after its construction, the tenants have all been cleared out, and the house stands empty.  Let us hope that this is for renovation and restoration purposes, rather than demolition.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Prahran East (show map)

Taken on: January 21, 2020

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, f/4.0, 1/500 sec, 11.6mm, ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	11.6mm
ISO:	160
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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