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Fawkner Mansions
250 Punt Road, PRAHRAN VIC 3181 - Property No B3167
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Fawkner Mansions is of architectural and historical significance at a State level as the earliest major block of flats extant in Melbourne. Constructed in early 1910 for the owner George Fairbairn to the designs of architect Ernest H Willis, it helped to introduce a new style of living and new architectural forms. The massive symmetrical red-brick form is imposing, yet includes domestic references. The twenty-seven small self-contained flats provided a popular alternative to
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B3167
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