St Anne's
East Melbourne, Gipps Street 154, Stokesay
Large double fronted, two storey house. Described in 1918 as having "10 rooms 2 bathrooms, 2 maid’s rooms, laundry, large brick motor garage, stabling, man’s room, &c electric light throughout."
The house was built for John Webster in 1869 and designed by architects Reed & Barnes, who designed a number of houses in East Melbourne. Nancy Adams, in her book, Family Fresco,claims the house was once owned by her father, Sir Edward Mitchell, K.C., who named it Stokesay after Stokesay Vicarage in Shropshire where he used to spend university vacations and where the vicar coached him.
St. Anne's 154 Gipps Street East Melbourne - 1970
Photograph of St. Anne's, 154 Gipps Street, just prior to its demolition in 1970. It is now part of the Mercy Hospital site. The house was previously known as Stokesay.
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