Summary
Kodak Australasia managing director Edgar Rouse's family home in Toorak, circa 1930s.
This view shows the front garden layout, designed by renowned landscape gardener Edna Walling. Their home was designed by prominent society architect firm Butler and Martin.
Edgar Rouse was a managing director of Kodak Australasia from 1928, and later succeeded his father John Joseph (JJ) Rouse in 1938, who was a co-founder of Baker & Rouse and then a founding managing director of Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd.
Description of Content
Large white stone two-storey house with chimney, seen from the garden with shrubs and trees in foreground framing the view. The house has a large porch on both the ground and first floors in the front right corner. It has numerous panelled glass windows.
Physical Description
Digital file. Digital copy of an original photograph which was monochrome, portrait orientation with white border and mounted in an album.
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Toorak, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1930s
The house was built in about 1928 and the garden still looks young, so estimating date to be 1930s. -
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Digital file, Monochrome
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