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House and stable

Other Name

Widford

Location

1A Wiseman Street HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Hawthorn Heritage study 1992
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Hawthorn Heritage study 1992

Statement of Significance

1. Architecturally significant if the rear can be shown to be part of the c1860 building. Few buildings of this date survive in Hawthorn.

2. Architecturally significant as a typical example of the villas adapted to a mansion house setting in the southern section of the Auburn Ward in the 1880s.

3. The Wiseman Brothers, prosperous Flinders Lane warehouseman, who extended or, most probably, rebuilt their neighbouring residences, "Widford" and "Kent" (now demolished) about 1883, were typical of the wealthy businessmen with city offices who chose the Tooronga area for their mansion homes. Historically significant.

4. The house has historic significance, also, in the 1920s and later as the home of Constantine Krizos, a medical man from East Turkey who became Honorary Consul for Greece and practised medicine until his death in 1939.

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