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JOHN CURTIN HOUSE

Other Name Individual Location 2 FALLON STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 5598 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] 2 Fallon Street Brunswick

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, constructed c.1906, at 2 Fallon Street, Brunswick.

How is it significant?
The house at 2 Fallon Street, Brunswick is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland and of interest for historical associations.

Why is it significant?
Of aesthetic significance as a good and intact representative example of an early 1900s timber ashlar villa, with fine detilaing including the central pediment to the verandah, intact cast iron lacework and paired elongated double-hung sash windows. (AHC Criterion E.1)

Of historic significancefor its brief association with John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (1941-45) who resided in the house in his late 20s, from 1912 to at least 1915, during his most vehement anti-conscription phase.