Halcyon: 53 Acland Street, ST KILDA

Building Profile

Location

Construction Details

Built in the Victorian period in the Victorian Italianate style

Notable features

Features a tower, an L-shaped balcony and verandah with cast iron columns, ballustrading, valencing and brackets which form gothic arches. The tower rises above and highlights the ground floor entrance ornately decorated with pilasters, festoons, string courses and vermiculated quoins. The building has a dominant roof line with bracketed eaves. Internally the main house is substantially intact and noteworthy for its elaborate plasterwork and particularly fine vestibule which repeats the gothic theme of the external cast iron.

History

• Victorian Heritage Register (H0775) - Halcyon is protected by state law

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