Queensville Estate No. 2 of Kingsville 1888 Auction Plan
The Kingsville Queensville Estate divided up Thomas Chirnside’s 89 acre Crown Portion (outlined block of original Cut Paw Paw estate from 1865 shown in the photos) in the 1880s Land Boom era. This awesome artwork is remaining blocks from the first, No. 1, estate release between Geelong Road and Webb St (previously Moore St but clashed with Footscray’s Moore St).
The Queensville Estate Precinct has a very distinctive mix of Edwardian and Bungalow eras housing, narrow fronted blocks, and grid-iron layout street arrangement that is surprisingly regular for Footscray.
The Estates sections, numbering 1 to 6 (1 and 2 are available to purchase), make up the now suburb of Kingsville that had been part of the Werribee Shire since 1872. The Estate later suffered from a long period of municipal neglect and rapid residential growth. So the local progress association sought annexation to the Footscray municipality in 1920, succeeding in the following year.
By the mid-1920s there was another land and building boom in Footscray and the local timber merchant and builder, Anders Hansen, was among the most prolific house builders on the Queensville and Kingsville estates. Hansen built 300 houses between 1913 and 1925, at the rate of one per week.
You can own a piece of this wonderful heritage with this stunning restored reproduction of the second estate auction from 1888.
Link to Heritage Victoria containing the history and heritage information PDF. Also, if you are in the lower Somerville Road end of the Estate, you are probably shown in the Yarraville Ariel Photograph print.
The Kingsville Queensville Estate divided up Thomas Chirnside’s 89 acre Crown Portion (outlined block of original Cut Paw Paw estate from 1865 shown in the photos) in the 1880s Land Boom era. This awesome artwork is remaining blocks from the first, No. 1, estate release between Geelong Road and Webb St (previously Moore St but clashed with Footscray’s Moore St).
The Queensville Estate Precinct has a very distinctive mix of Edwardian and Bungalow eras housing, narrow fronted blocks, and grid-iron layout street arrangement that is surprisingly regular for Footscray.
The Estates sections, numbering 1 to 6 (1 and 2 are available to purchase), make up the now suburb of Kingsville that had been part of the Werribee Shire since 1872. The Estate later suffered from a long period of municipal neglect and rapid residential growth. So the local progress association sought annexation to the Footscray municipality in 1920, succeeding in the following year.
By the mid-1920s there was another land and building boom in Footscray and the local timber merchant and builder, Anders Hansen, was among the most prolific house builders on the Queensville and Kingsville estates. Hansen built 300 houses between 1913 and 1925, at the rate of one per week.
You can own a piece of this wonderful heritage with this stunning restored reproduction of the second estate auction from 1888.
Link to Heritage Victoria containing the history and heritage information PDF. Also, if you are in the lower Somerville Road end of the Estate, you are probably shown in the Yarraville Ariel Photograph print.
The Kingsville Queensville Estate divided up Thomas Chirnside’s 89 acre Crown Portion (outlined block of original Cut Paw Paw estate from 1865 shown in the photos) in the 1880s Land Boom era. This awesome artwork is remaining blocks from the first, No. 1, estate release between Geelong Road and Webb St (previously Moore St but clashed with Footscray’s Moore St).
The Queensville Estate Precinct has a very distinctive mix of Edwardian and Bungalow eras housing, narrow fronted blocks, and grid-iron layout street arrangement that is surprisingly regular for Footscray.
The Estates sections, numbering 1 to 6 (1 and 2 are available to purchase), make up the now suburb of Kingsville that had been part of the Werribee Shire since 1872. The Estate later suffered from a long period of municipal neglect and rapid residential growth. So the local progress association sought annexation to the Footscray municipality in 1920, succeeding in the following year.
By the mid-1920s there was another land and building boom in Footscray and the local timber merchant and builder, Anders Hansen, was among the most prolific house builders on the Queensville and Kingsville estates. Hansen built 300 houses between 1913 and 1925, at the rate of one per week.
You can own a piece of this wonderful heritage with this stunning restored reproduction of the second estate auction from 1888.
Link to Heritage Victoria containing the history and heritage information PDF. Also, if you are in the lower Somerville Road end of the Estate, you are probably shown in the Yarraville Ariel Photograph print.