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Appin

Other Name Log Cabin House Location 122 Commercial Road, Mt Evelyn VIC 3796 - Property No 75947 File Number 17 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Appin, built c1920 by James Paton Beveridge, printer and lithographer, as a weekend bush retreat, and once with a photographic studio, has high local significance as one of Mt. Evelyn's remaining log cabins and as a 1920s holiday house. The 1920s log cabin has historical significance for its associations with both Beveridge and Brodney. Beveridge became prominent in the printing industry, gaining an OBE in 1954/5 for his services to printing in Australia. Brodney was one of the founders of the legal firm Maurice Blackburn and Co., who lived there in the late 1950s and early 1960s, using the larger log cabin as a music room and the smaller cabin as a library for his law books.