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176 Civic Parade
176 Civic Parade ALTONA, Hobsons Bay City

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176 Civic Parade, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
176 Civic Parade, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
176 Civic Parade, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The house, constructed c.1935, at 176 Civic Parade, Altona.

How is it Significant?

The house at 176 Civic Parade, Altona is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, it is significant as one of a small number of surviving Interwar houses that were constructed in the Altona area after full railway services were extended there and old housing estates revived. (AHC criterion A4)

Aesthetically, it is significant as a rare and distinctive example of an intact Interwar house in the Moderne style, which is highly intact and complemented by related garden elements. (AHC criteria B2 and E1)

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    • Physical Description 1

      176 Civic Parade - Physical Description 1

      This Moderne style stuccoed house is distinguished by its rounded form and corner steel framed windows. As an added stylistic flavour (Mexican?) there is the string course of terra-cotta which is placed just below the parapet. Shaped rain water heads are used on feature downpipes near the austere porch entry.

      The house is complemented by related landscape including a columnar cypress near the entry, which provides a southern European note, a jacaranda, and a brush box street tree.

      Physical Conditions

      176 Civic Parade - Physical Conditions

      External Condition

      Good.

      Integrity

      176 Civic Parade - Integrity

      External Integrity

      High

      Physical Description 2

      176 Civic Parade - Physical Description 2

      Context

      Set on a flat site north of the main Altona residential development and south of Cherry Lake.

      Historical Australian Themes

      176 Civic Parade - Historical Australian Themes

      Making Suburbs

      Physical Description 3

      176 Civic Parade - Physical Description 3

      Associations

      FW Johns

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Hobsons Bay - Hobsons Bay Heritage Study

      Author: Hobsons Bay City Council
      Year: 2006
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