Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 275 Myers Street, East Geelong, has significance as an intact example of the Late Victorian style. Possibly built between 1894 and 1895, the original owner of the house appears to have been the Hon. Jonas Levien, former President of the Shire of Bellarine and Country Party Minister of Agriculture and Mines in the Victorian State Government. The house appears to be in fair condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 275 Myers Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the hipped roof and side skillion verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, unpainted pressed red brick wall construction, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, three unpainted pressed red brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops and cream brick bands, narrow eaves, cream brick quoinwork, polychrome brick voussoirs above the front windows, round cast iron verandah columns with decorative pedestals and capitals, cast iron verandah valance and brackets, cast iron verandah balustrade, front timber framed double hung tripartite windows under the projecting hip and the verandah with slightly arched heads, timber framed doorway with the four panelled timber door, sidelights and highlights, panelled timber bases to the sidelights, bluestone window sills, and the parapeted brick verandah end wall with arched window opening.

The house at 275 Myers Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the late 19th century. In particular, this house appears to have associations with the original owner, the Hon. Jonas Levien from 1894-95 when it was built. Levien was a former President of the Shire of Bellarine and Country

Party Minister of Agriculture and Mines in the Victorian State Government.

Overall, the house at 275 Myers Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1978.

Sands & McDougall's Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Sands & McDougall's "Invicta" Geelong Directory, 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong City Council Rate Books (Barwon Ward), 1892-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Investigator, Magazine of the Geelong Historical Society, February, 1970, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Morrow, W., J., Index to the Geelong Advertiser, 22 January, 1892.

Unnamed history of Geelong West Council, 1876-1929. Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence