FORMER CARLO GERVASONI HOMESTEAD

The former Carlo Gervasoni Homestead Complex is one of a group of buildings expressive of the settlement of Italian agriculturists in the Yandoit area from the 1860's and its subsequent development over a long period by their descendants.

The complex is one of the oldest in the district. This particular group consists of a two storey rendered stone building with a low gable roof which appears to have had a verandah at first floor level. Its architecture and construction bears similarity to a number of other buildings in the area, constituting a vernacular style which is distinctive to this region of Victoria.

This older complex has not been inhabited since the 1920's and has suffered in consequence. The complex is urgently in need of restoration. Another residential building owned and lived in by Mr. Gervasoni is still under consideration for registration at this stage pending the recommendations of the shire area conservation study.

The former Carlo Gervasoni Homestead is of architectural and historical importance for the following reasons:

* as an expression of the vernacular tradition in rural architecture brought to Australia by Italian immigrants in the 1860's and developed notably in the Yandoit area of Victoria.

* as an expressionof Italian rural agricultural and social traditions in Australia

* as an expression of small-scale rural development in the immediate past Gold Rush decade period.

* for its association with the Gervasoni family of Italian settlers

* for its contribution to the distinctively altered characteristics of the cultural landscape of the Yandoit area.

Group

Farming and Grazing

Category

Homestead Complex