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"Ky-e-Lah", Residence

Location

195 Noble Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 203413

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Built in 1896 for Thomasina Rutherford, this house has regional historical significance as an example of the fine late Victorian , houses constructed in Newtown for affluent owners, and for its associations during the 1920s and 1930s with Tom Bailey Hawkes manufacturer and proprietor of Hawke Bros., a firm of Geelong iron merchants founded in the 1850s which serviced the Geelong and Wimmera districts. It is regionally architecturally significant as an eclectic early Edwardian house. Particularly significant is the rare ridge slate decoration.

REFERENCES

Newtown Rate Book - 1896-97, No 1539.

Ibid 1899-1900, No. 1533.

Ibid 1903-04, No 1530; 1909-10, No 1654; 1915-16, No 1827.

Ibid 1917-18, No 1847.

Ibid 1922, No 1864

Ibid 1923, No 2079; 1938, No 2317

Ibid

The Book of Geelong, compiled by Edward A Vidler, Henry Franks & Co, Geelong, 1897, pp 58-62.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence