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Wray house

Location 95 Birmingham Road Mt Evelyn and 97 Birmingham Road MOUNT EVELYN, YARRA RANGES SHIRE File Number 326 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

This timber house has high local significance as the home of Hughie and Alice Wray, confectioners, who ran a popular ice cream shop in Mt. Evelyn township during the tourist boom of the 1920s and early 1930s. Alice Wray played an active role in community life through her involvement with district Guiding, the Country Women's Association and the Barn Theatre, a Mt. Evelyn theatrical group formed in the 1950s.