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.