"Milton" Residence

'Milton' a two storey stucco masonry house with slate roof, was erected in 1857-58 for prominent Geelong pharmacist and politician, Charles Kernot, to Renaissance Revival style design by leading Geelong architects Backhouse & Reynolds 'Milton' is one of the finest works of the architects in Geelong and an important early townhouse. Charles Kernot was a distinguished Geelong colonist, radical politician and amateur engineer, many of his descendants being noted in Australian engineering circles.

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Geelong Regional Commission Register

Australia Heritage Commission Register of National Estate

National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register

Historic Buildings Council Register

REFERENCES:

Geelong Advertiser - 23rd October, 1857, tender notice.

Murray-Smith, S - Charles Kernot (1820-1882) in Pike Douglas (Ed), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne University Press, Vol. 5 1974, pp 19-20.

Smith, James (Ed) - The Cyclopedia of Victoria, 3 volumes,

The Cyclopedia Co., Melbourne Vol 1 , 1903 pp 237-238.

Biography of Maurice Edwin Kernot, son of Charles Kernot, p 463. Biography of Frederick Archer Kernot, one of Charles Kernot.

Lyall Sutherland - 'The Architectural Profession in Melbourne', 1835-1860, University of Melbourne, 1965 reference to practice of Backhouse and Reynolds.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House