Concrete Houses of Australia
This site is dedicated to identifying and documenting experimental concrete houses constructed during the introduction of cast concrete to Australia from the 1880s until 1950s
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How to you know if your house is concrete: the telltale signs.
A concrete house will often look as any other from the same period, but there are a few signs that will give away its construction. Date of construction Concrete as a house building material didn’t really come about until the early twentieth century. Although there was at least one disastrous experiment with mass unreinforced concrete…
Do you live in a concrete house in Griffith, Canberra?
Following the success of the Sunshine Housing Estate in Victoria with a concrete construction system originally developed in the Balaklava, South Australia, the Monolyte Company won a contract in 1926 to construct 100 houses in South Blanfordia (now the Canberra suburb of Griffith). Only 25 were built before the company went bankrupt in 1927. Do…
First 10
That’s the first ten houses uploaded. Some are yet to have more detail than a link to their heritage listing. A search on each of the state’s heritage register did not prove fruitful in identifying further places. However, most registers do not have the ability for a free search so they may be hidden. Out…
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