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State Savings Bank House
Location56 Home Road NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay City LevelIncl in HO area contributory |
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The State Savings Bank (SSB) house, designed by GB Leith and constructed in 1923, at 56 Home Road, Newport. The SSB house at 56 Home Road, Newport is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay. Historically, it is significant as a representative example of a SSB financed home, a program which pioneered today's bank loans for home ownership and contributed to the development of Newport in the Interwar era. (AHC criterion A4) Aesthetically, it is significant as a well-preserved example of a Californian Bungalow, as exemplified by its overlapping gables, wire fabric fence and shingle gable cladding.
(AHC criterion E1)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House