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A Christmas Story

EAST MELBOURNE

  • 121 Gipps Street

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Decade(s) of architecture

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Australian Home Beautiful: a journal for the home builder, Vol 29, No 12, Dec 1950, p.14 Open full image ↗
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Australian Home Beautiful: a journal for the home builder, Vol 29, No 12, Dec 1950, p.15 Open full image ↗
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Australian Home Beautiful: a journal for the home builder, Vol 29, No 12, Dec 1950, p.17 Open full image ↗
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Australian Home Beautiful: a journal for the home builder, Vol 29, No 12, Dec 1950, p.78 Open full image ↗
Acquisition number
1712
Catalogue number
emdf0451
File name
DF0451
File location
Digital archive

Journalist, Stewart Cockburn, writes of doing up his house in East Melbourne in 1950.  The address of the house is not given but has been identified as 121 Gipps Street. Cockburn shortly afterwards became Robert Menzies' press-secretary. A photo of the front of the house shows that the ground floor verandah then had a wooden frieze, which has since been replaced. Another photo of the sitting room shows armchairs covered in a fabric designed by Frances Burke, also a resident of East Melbourne.

Item type
Newsclipping
Building name
Wooroonook
Subject address
121 Gipps Street, East Melbourne
Related content
Author
Stewart Cockburn
Date of publication or creation
1950-12
Publisher
Australian Home Beautiful: a journal for the home builder

History of item

The magazine is in the collection of the National Library of Australia and has been digitised and is available on the Trove website. Links to the above pages follow:-

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2960833588/image?WID=792 p.14
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2960833455/image?WID=724 p.15
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2960833192/image?WID=724 p.17
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2960825011/image?WID=805 p.78

 

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