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

  • New brick house with windows, flat roof and outdoor pagola under construction. A young girl stands in the foreground on a hilly grassed verge with her hands on her hips

    Susan Zull outside the house and newly constructed pagola

  • Water accumulates with timber footings and brick rubble beisde the newly constructed house, beneath the pagola.

    Water accumulates with timber footings and brick rubble beisde the newly constructed house, beneath the pagola.

  • A young girl and two boys stand in a row on top of a buried concrete tank amid building rubble beside their newly constructed house and underneath the pagola

    Zull children stand on top of a buried concrete tank amid building rubble beside their newly constructed house and underneath the pagola

  • Newly constructed brick house with flat roof and building rubble outside

    Newly constructed brick house with flat roof

  • New brick house with windows, flat roof and outdoor pagola under construction. A young girl stands in the foreground on a hilly grassed verge with her hands on her hips
  • Water accumulates with timber footings and brick rubble beisde the newly constructed house, beneath the pagola.
  • A young girl and two boys stand in a row on top of a buried concrete tank amid building rubble beside their newly constructed house and underneath the pagola
  • Newly constructed brick house with flat roof and building rubble outside

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.

This series of photographs shows the newly built house and pagoda, building rubble and wet conditions at the time.

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

".. Outside was a mess of wet, sticky clay that made access to the house difficult... "



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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