Crossley
East Melbourne, Gipps Street 079
Description:
A single storey house featuring a wide, low-pitched gable roof. A central, curved bay window sits below. It is made up of five lead-light segments and protected by a window hood. The lower part of the house is unpainted red brick, while the upper part is rendered with rough cast cement. The apex of the gable, above the window hood, is half-timbered.
History:
Andrew Francis Molan owned a hotel and store in Crossley, near Tower Hill in Victoria’s west. Later he moved to Melbourne and bought a hotel in Victoria Parade, Fitzroy. In 1910 his son, Maurice Leslie Molan married, and this seems to have been the stimulus for Andrew to buy the house at 79 Gipps Street. Maurice and his wife, Alice Leona, moved in.