DAVID CLARK HOUSE - SHOESTRING, 31 METERY RD, ELTHAM

What is significant?
The c1859 house, the additions of 1883, 1887 and 1921, and the surrounding site to the title boundaries.

How is it significant?
The house is historically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.

Why is it significant?
The house is historically significant because it is associated with the early 1850s Village of Eltham Reserve (Criterion A). Also as the residence of several prominent local figures: David Clark (first headmaster of Eltham primary school (1875) and of the previous 1856 National vested school) until his death in 1912, John Lascelles Drew (manager of Yanakie Tea Gardens) during the World War I period, and Arthur Munday, market gardener, in the early 1940s (Criterion H).

BUTLER STUDY, 2001
Shoestring has symbolic historical significance to the Eltham locality

- for its associations with the original early 1850s Village of Eltham Reserve;

- as the home of David Clark until his death in 1912, Clark being the first headmaster of the Eltham Primary School opened in Dalton Street in 1875 and of the previous 1856 National vested school on that site; for its association, during the World War I period, with John Lascelles Drew, manager of the Yanakie Tea Gardens; and

- for its historical associations with Arthur Munday, market gardener, during the early 1940s.

BASIS OF SIGNIFICANCE:

ILLUSTRATION OF THE THEMES

HISTORY

SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT

ORIGINAL ELTHAM TOWNSHIP,

DEGREE OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE

EXTENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: ENTIRE BUILDING AND SITE

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House