A time capsule of the mid -intact century in which the family of the original owner launched to finish while outside the foreigner is sold for the first time in highton.
Modernist design fans are making a line line to inspect the 1964 personalized house designed by local architect Walter Hodgson, who was also responsible for Belmont’s good Motel view.
The beautifully preserved interior of 66 Reigate RD, highton, avoids artificial materials, instead, shows natural raw materials such as pressed straw roof, internal solid black wooden doors and alpine ash walls.
Related: Belmont Home Morfs of Bachelor Pad A Family Sanctuary
Geelong’s future hot points to buy a house now
Barwon Corridor grows like the Newtown milk site listing
![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"%20viewBox="0%200%201280%20720"%3E%3C/svg%3E)
The original pressed straw roof in 66 Reigate RD, Highton, adds a textural element and provides an incorporated insulation.
There is a garage for three cars, plus a double garage in the back.
The owner’s son said that the house was a love job for his engineer father who spent several months working in Mexico duration, the construction remained intensely involved through long and detailed letters.
“The whole family was involved in the landscape of the garden and the great block enabled external activities such as the Cricket in the backyard,” he said.
“Five generations of the Perkins family have lived in the house in time and regularly for social meetings.”
He said that parents were attracted to high sites panoramic views on Geelong and the opportunity to incorporate a large garage space where old cars could restore cars.
Photos at the time of the construction show there were no other pavements between the house and the Barwon River, with only a handful of others built.
Original kitchen cabinets are winning on potential buyers.
The wooden wood lining has secret nails.
Although the surrounding landscape may have changed, the time has been still inside, where the original kitchen with cabinets mounted on the roof and floor to ceiling windows are based on both the front and on the back of the house.
The family member said that a garage had been added to facilitate access, but nothing had changed in addition to the hard wood floors that were now carpet.
“We believe that clean lines and open/exterior plant life of a house in the middle of the century like this were advanced in their time,” he said.
“He took full advantage of Australia’s climate and life and has never gone out of fashion.”
The seal of the views, the private terrace and the exhibition cabinet suspended as its favorite characteristics.
The front bedroom has a panoramic view over Geelong.
The family has enjoyed many meetings in the private courtyard.
A separate bathroom next to the bathroom.
McGrath, Geelong’s listing agent Tom Harrison, said almost 100 people had already inspected the property of 721 square meters before their auction on Saturday.
While the nearby Primary School of Montpellier is an attraction for young families, it is the opportunity to renew sympathy the jewel of the middle of the century that drives interest.
Most people are not talking about large -scale changes, instead of updating kitchen appliances and knocking out the wall between the bathroom and separate bathrooms to create a larger bathroom.
“We are attracting people who would love the opportunity to try to buy and scrape all the money they have to try to get it,” Harrison said.
“Then there is a second people, at the other end of the spectrum, where they have $ 1.5 million to spend, but they want to renew something that they live in houses in the middle of the century.
“This style is the opposite of the market. I had five openings over the weekend, three of them had one or two slimers and then you go to this and there are 30 to 40 people.”
Price hopes are $ 780,000 to $ 850,000.
