East Melbourne, Albert Street 412, Mentmore

Modest single storey house but with extravagantly scaled 4 fluted composite columns to verandah across front, swags, etc. Eight rooms on land 33 feet by 160 feet.

The house is listed in the rate books as being next door to the Medical Society and next door but one to the Victorian Artists Society, across Morrison Place. The Swedenborg Church is on the near corner but with an address in Morrison Place it is therefore not listed in the same sequence. However the photo clearly shows that Mentmore is next door to another small house, not the church. Presumably Mentomore was built on only one half of the land (33 feet by 160 feet) and the second house was built later. The house had eight rooms despite its small frontage. Possibly most of those rooms were bedrooms. An advertisement in 1913 offers a beautiful bed-sitting room, board optional. Mentmore was demolished along with its neighbours to be replaced by a three storey car park.