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DUPLEX
Other NameHouse, flats, maisonette Location2-4 SHERBOURNE STREET, ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The flats at nos. 2-4 Sherbourne Street, Essendon, were built in 1936
for Mabel Williams. They are aesthetically important. This importance
(Criterion E) is derived from their comparative rarity in the
Municipality as examples of the emerging Modern Movement just prior to
the outbreak of War in 1939. They demonstrate the influence of
European Modernism as a substitute for the stylism of the past and
although conservative in their use of a hipped roof form are in other
respects innovative, the exploitation of horizontal and vertical
elements and the use of symmetry being the hallmarks of the new
architectural forms which are capably expressed in this example.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Duplex