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Emu Cottage

Other Name

Previously part of the City Fringe Heritage Area

Location

19 McKillop Street, GEELONG EAST VIC 3219 - Property No 215801

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

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19 McKillop Street

Statement of Significance

Significant

Previously B listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

'Emu Cottage' in McKillop Street, Geelong is one of the early residences in the city limits surviving in a relatively intact condition. The original 7 room villa was erected prior to 1862 presumably for John Burke an early Geelong representative of the Italianate school of architectural design with the Tuscan porch a most distinctive feature. G. F. Link a noted educationist, scientist and for many years headmaster at the Matthew Flinder School, lived in the cottage at least until 1878. The cottage may date from the mid 1850s.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register.

REFERENCES

Geelong Adbertiser - 29 July 1862 Birth notice on 27 instant at Emu Cottage, McKillop Street West, the wife of John Burke, of a daughter.

Geelong Advertiser - 28 September 1876, p. 1 column 6. "To Let Notice' Emu Cottage McKillop Street, 7 rooms and store room, pantry, wash house and copper, gas and water laid on, stable and coach house.

Geelong Historical Society - Investigator, vol. 1, 1965-66, p.p. 3-27 for reference to Emu Cottage.

Vol 17, No 2, 1982, p.p. 56-60,

'Link the Educationalist' - detail f career of GF Link.

Brownwhill, W. R. - The History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke and Co, Melbourne, 1955, pp 184, 641.

Geelong Advertiser - 20 June 1869 daughter to GF Link at Emu Cottage.

Geelong Advertiser - 2 July 1870 tenders for double Villa in McKillop Street for GF Link, 'Honddu Villas' Davidson and Henderson Architects - apparently spec villa development by GF Link.

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