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doing an armchair tour of melbourne suburbs, and stumbled across this little property going cheap at around $5.5m.

would a post about this joint constitute advertising? 🤔 — a) i won’t profit one jot from its sale, and b) if my post led directly to a sale, i would probably laugh so hard the tears would roll down my legs

it’s just possible the building might be mildly interesting to somebody out there in tootland

looking at the floorplan and wondering what i might do with this property, i noticed a row of >20 small bedrooms, and it occurred to me the building was, perhaps, once an “institution” of some sort.

the kew historical society tells us that Ivy Grange in malmsbury street kew was first built in 1864; a tower and other wings were added later in stages.

For a number of years in the 1920s Ivy Grange was used as a private mental hospital.
in 1930 it was acquired by the carmelite fathers for use as a novitiate, and it is currently used as a guest house (i think for the past 40 years or so)

https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-kew-144357736

Sully House, Carrollton, New Orleans.

1893 house by New Orleans architect Thomas Sully built as his own residence. Originally one of three Sully designed houses on the block, it is the only one remaining in the 21st century. Downtown lake corner of Carrollton & Plum Streets; now numbered 1305 S. Carrollton Avenue, historically also listed as 1303.

Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans, 6 March 2023.

@noladon

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