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The White Hat Guide to Warwillah
St Kilda Road was once lined with many impressive mansions, now mainly demolished. White Hat has made a particular study of those remaining and has, in most circumstances, examined them carefully both within and without. As a rule of thumb we would probably conclude that the more ornate the facade the poorer the overall architecture, and quite often vice versa. Warwillah is a good case in point. It is not as externally flashy as some of its neighbours, Its relatively restrained Federation Queen Anne exterior hides some fine internal features. You can judge from the candle snuffer polygonal tower the location of the feature chamber. This chamber is designed to be approached by a staircase and the featured stain glass window (by W Montgomery) is, in White Hat's opinion, one of the finer residential windows of its kind remaining in Melbourne. The entrance lobby no longer has its impressive parquetry but the ceiling mouldings, and several significant original fireplaces remain major features. The view over St Kilda Road from the first floor windows was, and remains, impressive. Perhaps the most famous resident of Warwillah was Sir Isaac Isaacs, and we have covered one particular episode of his life there in one of our newsletters. By the 1960s, Warwillah, together with a similar mansion further along St Kilda Road, had been co-opted by the Education Department as a hostel for university students who had 'signed up' in advance to become teachers and continued in this role until the 1980s. Warwillah is currently is part of a boutique hotel and apartments complex owned and therefore not generally open to the public. Warwillah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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