East Melbourne, Hotham Street 146

A terrace house of rendered brick. It has a balustraded parapet with central entablature. The verandah and balcony are arcaded with Cornithian [?] columns.

Built for Mrs. Hannah Boyle, widow of Thomas Boyle who established the grocery shop on the opposite corner in 1875 [BI]. The shop had a seven room residence attached, where the Boyles lived. Thomas d. 21 Nov 1876 leaving everything to her. She owned the house until her death in 1913. It was rented at £90 at the time of her death and valued at £1150. It contained drawing room, dining room and four bedrooms, bathroom , large kitchen, two pantries and a scullery.

Brian Fitzgerald, journalist and historian & Judah Waten had rooms here in 1930s, 'The House of Culture and Rest'. See "Brian Fitzpatrick" by Don Watson, p.50 [BIC] Philip Kennedy completed St. Mary Star of the Sea in West Melbourne to the design of Edgar Henderson, and is thought responsible for much of its interior.

Owners
1895-1913: Mrs. Hannah Boyle, grocery shop owner
Occupiers
1896: Vacant
1897-1909: John Ingram, watchmaker, and his wife, Mary Ann Ingram, and children, Janet Elizabeth Ingram, Mary Barnaby Ingram, and William Henry Ingram, watchmaker. John Ingram established a business in Bourke Street in 1855 [Argus]
1910-1915: Hon. Charles McDonald, Speaker in House of Representatives
1910-1913 and 1914-1917. 1920: Peter M. Breheney
1925-1935: Mrs. Emily Musgrove
1937c: Brian Fitzpatrick, author, historian, journalist and founder of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties. In his university days he was a founder of Farrago, the student newspaper, and the Melbourne University Labor Party. During the 1930s he concentrated on historical writing. Judah Waten, novelist and communist.
1940: David T. Ellison
1944-1950: E. Scantlebury