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"Kainga" Residence

Location

67 Aberdeen Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 200036

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

'Kainga' a single storey weatherboard Villa was erected on 1904 for John Toyne Auctioneer and Agent from designs by the innovative early Twentieth Centuary frim of Laird and Barlow. This practice shaped residential building style in Geelong for many years and 'Kainga' is characteristic of their work in timber in the first decade of the twentieth centuary.

It is one of a distinct group in Newtown and Geelong West of interest for architectural qualities.

W R Brownhill - the History of Geelong and Corio Bay - Wilke & Co Ltd, Melbourne 1955 p 260.

Formation of Laird & Barlow, Architects.

R Aitken - 'Edwardian Geelong' - 'An Architectural History' - Unpublished Thesis 1979. Deaking University p 17-18.

Description of Laird and Buchan Architect of Geelong. R Aitken "List of Important Buildings" p.3.

Outline description of "Kainga" Residence in private communication with Alan Willingham

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence