Malvern Hamilton Rd Lady Dugan childrens home to 1976- Haddon-General sheet 075 Sep 1976 3

            Malvern Historical Society Inc. Keeping Stonnington's History Alive! December - January 2007-08 Newsletter No. 10
Glenbervie, a 30 roomed mansion, was built in 1883 to the design of Francis Maloney
White, on 13 acres of land fronting Glenferrie Road. It was built for pastoralist Suetonius
Henry Officer and his wife Mary. Glenbervie; named after the birthplace of the Officer
family in Scotland, was also known as Malvern House. Land-boomer Joseph Bartlett
Davies occupied the property in the 1890s followed by George Stevenson, one of
the pioneers in the soft-goods trade in Australia. In 1907 new owner, pastoralist and
racehorse breeder, Alexander Creswick, re-named the house Yarrien. In 1919, the
Hamilton sisters re-Iocated their school, Toorak College, from Douglas StreetToorak, to
Yarrien, and the mansion was used to accommodate the boarders.
Essington lewis, an industrialist and Wartime Director of Munitions, purchased Yarrien
in 1926; the year he was appointed to the Board of BHP. Lewis renamed the mansion
Kooringa after his birthplace in South Australia. It is said that Lewis made BHP one of
the most efficient steel companies in the world. The estate was subdivided and Kooringa
remained on an allotment in Hamilton Road. In 1942 Wesley College occupied the
mansion, when the school's 5t Kilda Road buildings were taken over by the Army. From
1946 -1971, the Red Cross used Kooringa as the lady Dugan Home, where country
children with polio or cerebral palsy could be treated. For three years, prior to Kooringa
being demolished in the 1970s, it was occupied by a State Government run children's
home. Hamilton Close was constructed on the site, to the design of architects Bates, Smart
& McCutcheon in 1979.
   

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