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Work on paper (item) - Photograph, 2 Metery Road, Eltham South

  • Two young boys stand on a flat dirt block where straight boards have been placed in lines

    Form of the house is laid out on the flat cleared block

  • A boy with a bow and arrow stands on a flat clear block of land where straight pieces of timber have been liad out to form the shape of a house

    Form of the house is laid out on the cleared block

  • A girl sits on hte edge of a dam filled with water surrounded by grass and bush

    The Dam at the bottom of the block

  • Two young boys stand on a flat dirt block where straight boards have been placed in lines
  • A boy with a bow and arrow stands on a flat clear block of land where straight pieces of timber have been liad out to form the shape of a house
  • A girl sits on hte edge of a dam filled with water surrounded by grass and bush

Historical information

Robert and Ada Zull built an Alistair Knox designed house at 2 (lot 8) Metery Road, Eltham, a one acre property for their family of five in the mid 1960s.

The form of the house is laid out on the cleared block. There was a dam at the bottom of the block.

Susan Bennett, nee Zull's reminiscences are published in EDHS Newsletter, February and April 2020.

".. the block was big.. Building the house was slow going. The plans had to be discussed, then drawn up, finance found, council permits obtained and labourers engaged. "



Significance

This series of photographs together with the account of personal remiscences provide a unique document of the construction of an Alistair Knox designed home. Knox was a pioneer in the use of mudbricks and recycled materials and is significant to his contribution of this style of architecture in Eltham and the wider Shire of Nillumbik.

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