43 Kireep Road

Historically, significant occupiers, Douglas Napier Gillison and roan Gillison. Their careers straddle important changes in the literary and popular history writing of the period 1940-1980. Douglas Gillison's work on the Official History of the RAAF is an important contribution. An unusual couple in that both took up popular historical writing: of Regional importance.

Architecturally the design epitomizes Boyd and other Melbourne Modernist's approach to design, with a minimalist external cuboid expression adorned only by 'structural decoration' as implied by the triangular bracing to windows. Like the nearby Stargazer house(q.v.). it also took the form-follows-function dictum to a visual extreme, in the design of the writer's study: of State importance.

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Residential buildings (private)

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House