Statement of Significance Last updated on - January 5, 2010 REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010 What is significant? The c1950s Jelbart residence and the c1945 barn, the garden and the gate posts and the surrounding site to the extent of the title boundaries. How is it significant? The Jelbart house and barn are historically and architecturally significant to the Shire of Nillumbik. The garden and the gate posts are historically and aesthetically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik. Why is it significant? The Jelbart house and barn are historically significant because they are unusually large and because together they comprise one of the oldest groups of substantial mud brick buildings erected during the 20th century in the Shire of Eltham and foreshadow the large mud brick residences of the 1960s and 1970s for which the area is well known (Criteria A & B). The buildings are architecturally significant because their construction (using timber post framing and mud brick walling) is a characteristic feature of what became known as the 'Eltham style'- which was prevalent in the area during the mid and latter parts of the 20th century (Criteria D & A). The garden and the gate posts - The garden is historically significant because it is a remainder of a large holding of 200 acres associated with the house (Criterion A).The gate posts are historically and aesthetically significant because they were taken from a 19th-century Toorak mansion and because their removal and re-use illustrates the practice of recycling material from demolished buildings that was one of the characteristic features of 'Eltham-style' architecture (Criteria A, D & E).Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 8 strips and associated 10 x 15 cm colour printKodak Gold 100-5arthur street, eltham, jelbart barn

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses, abbie heathcote

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses, abbie heathcote

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Digital copy of colour photographfred mitchell collection, 1966, bible street, streets, houses

Digital copy of colour photographfred mitchell collection, 1968, eltham, york street, houses

Digital copy of colour photographfred mitchell collection, 1968, eltham, york street, houses

Digital copy of colour photographfred mitchell collection, 1968, eltham, york street, houses, door knob

Digital copy of colour photographfred mitchell collection, 1968, eltham, york street, houses, door knob