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Mansions of ToorakMiles LewisMiles Lewis

St John’s Church12 August 2010

Rosemount.’ Gardiner’s Creek [Toorak] Road, later 81 River St, early 1840sE M Robb, Early Toorak and District (Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne 1934), p 19

the subdivision & sale ofthe subdivision & sale ofthe subdivision & sale of the subdivision & sale of South Yarra and ToorakSouth Yarra and Toorak

Hoddle's map of surveyed lands

north of Melbourne, 1837

Port Phillip 104 sent toPort Phillip 104, sent to Sydney in February 1838

‘Plan of the Town and Suburbs of Melbourne’, 1843Statham, Capital Cities, p 222

Hoddle's proposed Richmond subdivision, 1837Bruce Trethowan

Hoddle's Richmond subdivision, 1838Bruce 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 109Megan Poulston

'Plan of Allotments adjoining the South Melbourne Reserve, &c.', M/9, 10 June 1840Roger Wyatt

‘Bona Vista’ later 67 Kensington Rd South Yarra possibly by John Gill c 1846‘Bona Vista’, later 67 Kensington Rd, South Yarra, possibly by John Gill, c 1846Robb, Early Toorak and District, p 29

Bona Vista Estate, South Yarra, 1879

V l l St t Lib fVale plan, State Library of Victoria

‘Bona Vista’Bona Vista , Kensington Road, South

Yarra, byYarra, by Reed,

Henderson & Smart, 1884 ,

from the south-east

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detail of a Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works map of theof Works map of the 1890s, showing the Kensington Road

f P harea of Prahran.

Smith & Kirk's (formerly Brodie & Burchett's) Victoria Tannery on the Yarra in 1850Smith & Kirk s (formerly Brodie & Burchett s) Victoria Tannery on the Yarra, in 1850unlocated, 2001

Toorak HouseToorak House

Toorak House, attributed to James Blackburn, c 1851-2: view by S T GillRobb, Early Toorak, p 54

‘Toorak’, sketch by Jane Cannan, c 1853-4Royal Historical Society of Victoria

lodge Villa Borghese Romelodge, Villa Borghese, RomeCharles 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 T i 1830Town, Tasmania, c 1830,

remodelled by James Blackburn 1848

old view; modern view

E G Robertson & Edith Craig EarlyE G Robertson & Edith Craig, Early Buildings of Northern Tasmania (2

vols, Melbourne 1964), I, p 50Miles Lewis

‘Bishopscourt’, Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, by

Newson & Blackburn, 1850-53Miles Lewis

tower

i d d

bracketted eave

i iwindow arcade quoining

‘Bishopscourt’, Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, by James Blackburn / Newson & Blackburn, 1850-53Blackburn, 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 1851-2watercolour by J D Stone, 1858

National Library of Australia

Government House Melbourne by Wardell Clark & Kerr of the Public WorksGovernment House, Melbourne, by 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's Road ToorakSt George s Road, Toorak

c 1848-51

photograph in 1861

State Library of Victoria, LTL H 690

'Toorak, former residenceToorak, former residenceof Sir H Barkly,

Governor of Victoria'by William Tibbits, 1878y ,

State Library of Victoria, LTL 612

Toorak House

Miles Lewis

'Toorak former residenceToorak, former residenceof Sir H Barkly,

Governor of Victoria‘by William Tibbits, 1878by William Tibbits, 1878

La Trobe Collection,, State Library of Victoria, LTL 612

Toorak House:view in the 1890s

A t l A t B id C I i lAustral Art Bromide Co, ImperialInstitute Series of Bromide Photographs

of Victoria, vol 1 Homes and Scenery(Melbourne, no date [c 1894-6]), I,

held by the Melbourne Club.y

Toorak House

Miles Lewis

Tintern, the bow windowbow window

John Collins photoState Library of Victoria

Tintern, plan of h h i 1901the house in 1901, by Inskip & Butler

Melbourne UniversityMelbourne University Architectural Collection

WD HOU 137, State Library of Victoria

the Tintern subdivision

State Library of yVictoria

th Bth Bthe Boomthe Boom

‘Orrong’, Toorak Roadlater ‘the Grey Lodge’, corner of Orrong Roadc 1851, extended by Lloyd Tayler, 1885y y ,

views in 1853 and c 19341934

Robb Early Toorak and DistrictRobb, Early Toorak and District, pp 94, 95

‘Greenmount, later ‘Aroona’, Toorak & Williams Rds, by Reed & Barnes 1869-70Robb, Early Toorak and District, p 86

AroonaPunch, 24 December 1903

Alexander Landale

pontificating

‘Lauderdale’ toadyingpontificating

Mrs Landale looking

martyredmartyredAroona

Punch, 24 December 1903

‘I Feel That We Have Come’I Feel That We Have Come‘Lauderdale’ and Senator Simon Fraser at ‘Norla’

Punch, 17 December 1903

‘my carpet slippers f t blare comfortable,

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’ IrvingNorla , 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 Conservatory’, Co se ato y ,

Leura

Punch, 12 November 19031903

‘Leura’, by Levi Powell, c 1869-73Punch, 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, 1884-6Miles Lewis

‘Lakeside', Queens Road, South Melbourne, by R Daltonwatercolour by William Tibbits, State Library of Victoria SLV H83.235/5

towers

‘Sebrof'Sebrof , Armadale

‘Lakeside’, South

Melbourne

MandevilleMandevilleMandeville Mandeville HallHallHall Hall

St Georges ‘ Athelstane, Clendon Rd, probably by Charles Webb, 1867Robb, Early Toorak and District, p 100

'Mandeville Hall', Toorak, west front by Charles Webb, 1878-9Imperial Institute Album, Melbourne Club

'Mandeville Hall', Toorak, west front by Charles Webb, 1878-9

Mandeville Hall

Mosspennock 36Mosspennock, 36 Clarendon St, East

Melbourne, by Charles W ebb for J L PurvesW.ebb for J L Purves,

1881

‘Mandeville Hall’, detail of front door glazingMiles Lewis

'Dhurringhile', figures from the left side of the stair windowMiles Lewis

‘Flora’ at ‘Mandeville Hall’ and at 'Dhurringhile’Miles Lewis

‘Mandeville Hall’: the drawing room in 1904Melbourne Punch, 7 January 1904

‘Mandeville Hall’: the drawing room doors to thedrawing room doors to the

conservatory

Miles LewisMiles Lewis

'Mandeville Hall', drawing room

ceiling and cornice in the window bay

Irvine GreenMiles Lewis

Mandeville Hall: drawing room silk before repairMandeville Hall: drawing room silk before repair.Chris Payne.

'Mandeville Hall', drawing roomdrawing room chimneypiece

Miles Lewis

'Mandeville Hall', detail of bathroom wall

Miles Lewis

view of the Yarracourtesy of Philippe Batters

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M H Baillieu house, 729 Orrong Road, Toorak, by H D Annear 1925-7Miles Lewis

M H Baillieu house: detailhouse: detail of frontispiece

Miles Lewis

M H Baillieu house

Annear’s drawings

M H Baillieu house:house:detail of

Annear’s planAnnear s plan

Cortile del Belvedere,

exedra of upperexedra of upper court:

reconstruction ofreconstruction of Bramante's

original designB hi B t 105Bruschi, Bramante, p 105

M H Baillieu house: drawing roomMiles Lewis

M H Baillieu house: fireplaceMiles Lewis

M H BaillieuM H Baillieu house

the gardeng

Miles Lewis

decline & falldecline & falldecline & fall decline & fall

Miegunyah, 641 Orrong Road, Toorak, 1858

onwards

view from the west 27 January 1913

south front 27 March 1920March 1920

Grimwade Albums B & 13, Melbourne university

ArchivesArchives

M b l G i d tMabel Grimwade at the bush house, ‘Miegunyah’, 21

April 1913

Grimwade Album B, Melbourne University

Archives

M lb &Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works propertyof Works property

service file (or house cover) for )‘Miegunyah’, 641

Orrong Rd, Toorak, t d tas connected to

the system in 1902

MMBW t i fil f Mi h & t blMMBW property service file for Miegunyah & stables 1919-1920; 1921; 1933

Miegunyah, south front and port-cochère, 1 December 1923Grimwade Album 17, Melbourne University Archives

MMBW property service files for Miegunyah 1933-4; 1934; 1951

Miegunyah, alterations by Stephenson & Meldrum, 1933, elevations & sectionsdrawing no 4480, Melbourne University Archives

‘Miegunyah’, 641 Orrong Road,

Toorak, in 1933-4: b dbased on

Stephenson & Meldrum’sMeldrum s drawings

Miles Lewis

‘Miegunyah’, 641 Orrong RoadOrrong Road,

Toorak, as remodelled by H D Annear,1920-1921

extrapolating backwards frombackwards from

1933-4, using the MMBW houseMMBW house

cover and photographs

Miles LewisMiles Lewis

‘Mi h’ 1910‘Miegunyah’, 1910

‘Miegunyah’, 1913

extrapolating backwards using thebackwards using the MMBW house cover

and photographs

Miles Lewis

Miegunyah, north g yfront

O t b 1933October 1933

modern viewmodern view

Grimwade Album 23, Melbourne University

Archives;Miles LewisMiles Lewis

Miegunyah hall: view eastward and detail of chimneypieceMiles Lewis

the Miegunyah workshop, by Philip Hudson 1919 20Hudson, 1919-20

view January 1921

modern view

Grimwade Album 33, Melbourne UniversityMelbourne University

ArchivesMiles Lewis

the Miegunyah workshop: the crutches and the escutcheon: ‘Man became erect for the better

employment of his hands’Miles LewisMiles Lewis