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De Garis House

Location

60 Bellerine St, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 212098

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Historically, built for one of the towns more successful doctors, Dr. Stephen Smith, the house was occupied over a longer period by the prominent Alfred Grimwade, member o t he important Grimwade family who managed the Felton Grimwade and resulting chemical manufacturing companies after the founders death in 1910. Architecturally, it is a superior and early example on a Statewide basis of the American Queen Anne revival style, a style of which Geelong has some of the States best examples.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House