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HOUSE (GARRYOWEN)
Other NamesPolice Station , Garryowen Private Hospital, House, MPAC heritage study Location689 MT ALEXANDER ROAD, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non-original alterations and additions to the house and the front fence are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The house now known as 'Garryowen', constructed c.1886 and first occupied by Sarah Edmondsen, at 689 Mt Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds is significant.
The house now known as 'Garryowen' at 689 Mt Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
It is historically significant as now rare example of a villa residence erected in Moonee Ponds during the land boom. While a number of these villas were erected many have now been demolished and the significance of this house is enhanced by its rarity value. (Criteria A & B)
It has aesthetic as a representative example of a very common villa form of its time, which is given individual identity by the intricate polychromatic pattems in the brickwork that emphasises salient elements of the design. (Criterion E)
Group
Health Services
Category
Hospital