"Suma Park", Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

'Suma Park', formely known as Frankfurt-on Sea, was erected in the 1880s for prominent stud breeder and horse racing entrepreneur James Wilson of St Albans, Whittington. The large single storey dichromatic brick villa in stylistically similar to St Albans homestead of 1873-78 by J.T,Conlon,a Melbourne Architect who most likely designed Frankfurt-on-Sea. Stephen E. Bailey gave the name Suma Park to Wilson's racing establishment after the family property at Orange in N.S.W. 'Suma Park' is a distinctive late Victorian Villa with significant historical associations with Wilson and later Bailey, both prominent racing men. An earlier weatherboard cottage and barn survive.

Reference

W. R. Brownhill, The History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke and Co, Melbourne, 1955 pp.327, 377, 523.

Geelong Historical Society Investigator Vol 17, No 1, 1982, p.30.

Lorraine Huddle, 'James T. Conlon Architect' Dept of Architecture Research Report, University of melbourne, 1979.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Homestead building