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389-393 Alma Road

Other Name House, "Atta Vista" (1899), "Bella Vista" (1903), School "Adamsdown" (1907), School Location 389-393 Alma Road CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

"Atta Vista" is a defaced but substantial ltalianate villa understood to have been built by '1888 when it was owned by John Grice.

It is of architectural and historical interest. Its architectural value derives from its survival, although in a defaced state, as one of several substantial late Victorian villa residences in Caulfield. Its historical value derives from its association with John Grice, chairman of the National Bank during the nineteenth century Land Boom and for its role as a school for a period during this century.