OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Toy Library, 8 Albert Street, Mornington

DATE1995 to 1999

MEDIAImage

PHOTOGRAPHERMaureen Tregonning

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.1206.135

HISTORY

The house at 8 Albert Street is locally significant. As one of a small number of Victorian era suburban houses surviving in Mornington; for the association with the early pioneering Pentecost family who were in turn associated with the earliest period of permanent settlement at the town of Schnapper Point (Mornington). The property was part of a re-subdivision in 1889 of land owned by Joseph E Worrell.
He was both the Mornington Shire Secretary and a land agent. He sold the newly created lot to Mary Pentecost. William Edmund Pentecost built the house. Later owners were Isabella and Henry Walker followed by Rueben Chapman. This building is heritage listed. The house was used by the Peninsula Health Service from 1890 to 1900. In recent years it has been used as a Toy Library.

DESCRIPTION

Cream double fronted single storey rendered house with sash windows and corrugated iron roof. There is a front verandah the whole length of the house, and the verandah posts are painted dark green. The front fence is wire with timber posts painted dark green. There is a chimney visible to the right as you view the photograph. The size of the land is 55 feet 5 inches by 130 feet.

SUBJECTS

Brick houses, Houses, Toy libraries

KEYWORDS

Albert Street, Brick houses, Houses, Mornington, Pentecost, William, Toy libraries, Worrell, Joseph, E