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Airlie

Other Name

Royal District Nursing Service Headquarters

Location

452 St Kilda Road,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4606

File Number

B4606

Level

Regional

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B4606 Airlie
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B4606 Airlie

Statement of Significance

A mansion of 1891 in which the influential architect Anketell Henderson made novel use of Renaissance and Mannerist elements, including a symmetrical main facade with two storeys of loggia arcading, through which a polygonal bay window breaks through at ground floor level, emphasised by the use of engaged Roman Ionic columns and a pediment, but tied back to the facade by a continuous modillionated cornice. Other idiosyncratic features are the banded columns and the giant volutes on the corner piers. The interior, despite alterations, retains mosaic hall flooring, a considerable amount of the heavy newel posts, a fine three-light stained glass stair wondow, and some etched and coloured glass elsewhere. The house is of historical interest as the boyhood home of Stanley Melbourne Bruce, later Lord Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia from 1923-29.
Classified: 16/09/1982

Group

Residential buildings (private)