Moderne house, Riverview Road, Essendon

Moderne house, Riverview Road
Location within Melbourne
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General information
Status	Completed
Type	House
Architectural style	European Moderne
Location	2 Riverview Road, Essendon, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°45′35″S 144°54′48″E
Completed	1935 (1935)
Client	Evan Price
Technical details
Material	Bricks
Floor count	2
Floor area	233 m2 (2,510 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architects	Geoffrey Mewton Roy Grounds
Architecture firm	Mewton and Grounds
Main contractor	C. Hutley
Victorian Heritage Register
Official name	Residence
Type	Registered place
Designated	18 April 1996
Reference no.	H1160
Heritage overlay no.	HO108
Category	Residential buildings (private)

The Moderne house is a house, located at 2 Riverview Road, in Essendon, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1935, the house was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 18 April 1996 in recognition of its architectural significance.

Description

The house at 2 Riverview Road, Essendon was designed in the European Moderne style in 1935 for Evan Price by the avant-garde architects Geoffrey Mewton and Roy Grounds, of Mewton and Grounds. The builder was C. Hutley of Brighton.

The house is predominantly two-storey five-bedroom house with face brickwork. The roofs are flat and there is a combination of parapets and projecting eaves. The house is a successful local adaptation of European Moderne and remains today as a rare, relatively intact example of a design type.

Mewton and Grounds were influential in the development of modernist architecture in Victoria and the style, technology and construction technique of the house at 2 Riverview Road demonstrates their philosophies and intent through its open plan form and functional design.

See also

• Architecture of Melbourne
• List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the City of Moonee Valley