Sunday, April 09, 2006

Arts and Crafts House and others Ivanhoe

This is a slightly altered house by Harold Desbrowe Annear 1903 in Eaglemont.

Ravenswood Registered Historic House no. 199

'Ravenswood' at 40 Beauview Parade in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe. This house is an Italianate Renaissance-style built in 1890-91. It has a two-storey colonnade of Corinthian columns, Tuscan pilasters, a single-storey pedimented porch, balustrades, parapets, cornices and festoons. It is set in large sloping garden with a huge hundred year old fig tree, and other large trees and superb view to the City.