Lumeah

‘Lumeah’ at 64 Campbell Road Hawthorn East, a Federation house built in 1911-12 on part of Mornane’s Paddock subdivision is significant. 

 

The extensions carried out in 1994 and in 2003 including the ground floor additions,  first floor dormer windows to the south, additional windows in the west gable and three small dormer windows to the roof are not significant. The garage, tennis court and swimming pool are also not significant. 

64 Campbell Road, Hawthorn East is of local representative (architectural) and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.

64 Campbell Road, Hawthorn East is part of a large cohort of Federation houses in Boroondara demonstrating the key characteristics of the style including hipped and gabled roof form, central first floor attic with balcony, box bay or bow windows, projecting gables, tuckpointed brick and roughcast render, terra cotta tile and timber fretwork. Its particular contribution is in the demonstration of a more formal approach to planning with a symmetrical frontage around a central entrance. While 64 Campbell Road, Hawthorn East is not alone in this approach, it is important for its demonstration of the transition from the flamboyant and freeform expression of the earlier Federation houses and towards the interwar period of more austerity. 64 Campbell Road is one of relatively few large Federation houses to demonstrate this aspect of Boroondara’s residential development in the Hawthorn East locality. The house shares many of the characteristic details of architect Christopher Cowper’s Queen Anne designs, and appears to be his work. (Criterion D)