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Avoca

Location 8 Gordon Grove,, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B0953 File Number B0953 Level Local

[1/2] B0953 Avoca [2/2] B0953 Avoca Gordon Grove South

Statement of Significance

Built about 1850 on a 22 acre block for William Montgomerie Bell (1813-1867 ), pastoralist, merchant, churchman and civic leader. After sub-dividing in 1854 Bell sold the house and ten acres to William Easey, auctioneer and pastoralist, who by 1859 had extended the house from 5 rooms to 17.
The housewas owned from 1860 to 1916 by George Kirk, pastoralist, merchant and politician, and his family; in the 1920s by Dr Sydney Sewell; and from 1966 by Mr C R Macdonald.
Classified: 13/11/1958