National Trust Database - Search Results

Back to search page »
Displaying 1- 1 of 1 record found
Image Name Detail File number Level
68480

Emily Stephen TB Chalet

3 OLIVEBANK RD FERNTREE GULLY - PROPERTY NUMBER B6968, KNOX CITY, - FORMERLY- CNR ELM ST & MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY BAYSWATER

The Emily Stephen TB Chalet, c.1936, privately built by Salvation Army Brigadier,Jonathon Stephen for his wife Emily. Living, and sleeping in the open air was the only known effective cure for TB before the introduction of penicillin in the 1950s. A number of government and private hospitals, or individual 'Chalets' within larger hospitals were built in Victoria, notably the modernist Greenvale and Heatherton Sanitoriums built in ... more

B6968

Regional
1