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Illawarra

Other Names Berwick ,  Alvah ,  Illawarra Location 51 Mayston Street HAWTHORN EAST, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of C* Grade Buildings

Statement of Significance

Alvah, 51 Mayston Street, Hawthorn East, is of historical and architectural significance at a local level. It is a well executed, generally externally intact, double-fronted, single-storey later Federation brick house with stucco dressings. It represents a type of late nineteenth and early twentieth century 'commuter development' found in Boroondara, which responded to subdivisions in areas near railway stations. Architecturally, it is a later Federation dwelling which characterises a new direction in Federation architecture in the middle 1900s, including a growing simplification of external massing and form, and increasingly sparing use of ornamental detail.