Perel
East Melbourne, Grey Street 008, Elsinore
A simple two storey tuckpointed brick dwelling with two storey cast iron verandah and render dressings. The parapet has a central cartouche and bracketed cornice. Whilst the entry door has a vermiculated arch over. [City of Melbourne i-Heritage Database]
This house was built in 1884 for Louis Perel by M Gooding & Son of Buckingham Street, Richmond. The earliest rate book entries for it describe it as having six rooms on land 22 by 100 feet. It was built on part of the land on which had once stood the Methodist New Connexion Church, built in 1868. In 1877 the New Connexion Church united with the Weslyans and the church beca
East Melbourne, Wellington Parade South 039, 041
No 41 is a late example of terrace house construction executed in red brick with yellow brick bands and render dressings. The principal feature of the facade is the elaborate Dutch gable like parapet. No 39 was built as its pair but now has a Georgian inspired cement rendered facade with a portico replacing the original verandah and balcony.
These two houses were built for William Brooks Hoffman by F R Ratten and designed by William H Cleverdon. William Henry Cleverdon (1855-1930) was born in Richmond. After his marriage to Emma Toon in 1877 he lived in Hawthorn and then Kew while having offices in Collins Street. In 1893 he moved to Geelong where the best known examples of his work can be found.