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KOONOONA FLATS
Location754-756 HIGH STREET, ARMADALE VIC 3143 - Property No 27915 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and additions are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
Koonoona flats, 754-56 High Street, designed by M. Sherlock and constructed in 1933, is significant. The significant attributes are the inter-war Spanish Mission influenced form, materials and detailing of the flats, garages, outbuildingsand front fence and manicured garden setting. The intactness of the building including its setting is integral to the significance of the place.
Koonoona flats is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.
Architecturally and aesthetically, it is significant as an outstanding and highly intact example of interwar residential flats that are distinguished by the application of a large amount of high-quality eclectic Spanish Mission-inspired decorative detail, in a setting - fence, steps, garages, outbuildings- that is fully integrated with the building. (Criteria D & E)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Flat