12 Coppin Grove

Significance of Individual Property

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The garden of "Yarrome" is of metropolitan significance: 1. for its retention of the original layout as a City Mansion Garden on the banks of the Yarra River and 2. for its mature native and exotic trees.

HO163 St James Park Estate, Hawthorn

The St. James Park Estate, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the following

reasons:

- The place is a Victorian-era mansion estate, developed in the second half of the

nineteenth century as Melbourne's wealthier residents sought accommodation away

from industry and the cramped living conditions of the inner-city, in a more physically

desirable location, but still close to the city. Several of the streets offer broad views of

Richmond and Hawthorn East.

- The place contains an exceptional number of individual buildings of historical and

architectural merit including Victorian-era mansions as well as large Federation and

interwar-era dwellings. Individually significant buildings include Invergowrie and its

gate lodge, the Glucksburg trio, Hawthorn House and Zetland.

-The place has important historical associations with Sir James Palmer who erected

Burwood (now Invergowrie), and George Coppin who subdivided and sold the area in

1871-1982.

- The place is representative of the growth of Hawthorn as a Victorian garden suburb

from the 1850s up until to the interwar period.

-Development in the area also reflected its proximity to rail links (from the early

1860s) and the development of the tram network (c. 1912-3).

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House