"Hawthorne"

The two storey Victorian gothic style residence 'Hawthorne of 39 Skene Street, Newtown, was erected in 1876 for T C Harwood, a successful Geelong solicitor. Joseph Watts, architect, designed the additions to an earlier cottage erected in 1854 to designs by Snell and Kaweru, architects. This elaborately decorated brick house, with prominent dormer gable windows, bay windows and encircling iron verandah, has most intricate timber looping barge boards as the principal feature. The residence is one of the finest examples of this period in the Geelong region, rivalling the examples of this period in the Geelong region, rivalling the renowned eclecticism of architects, Davidson & Henderson.

Reference

Geelong Advertiser 24th January, 1854, tender notice for additions to the cottage of Mr Harwood, Newtown, call by Snell and Kaweru, architects for additions to the residence of Mr T C Harwood.

Geelong Historical Records Centre, Map No. H. 24, Auction poster, date of auction 4th June, 1924, for Miss Harwood the property of the late Hon. T C Harwood. M.L.C., including description of residence.

Geelong Historical Society, Investigator, vol. 1, 1965-66, Sec. 3. P. 26, Vol 6 p. 54.

Navaretti, P Y, 'Architects of Melbourne and their Work, 1900 - 1940' History Research Essay. Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1971, reference to 'Hawthorne" residence of I G Anderson Newtown, Geelong, renovation, from Australian Home Beautiful, April, 1929. pp. 21-23.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House