Pascoe Vale South: Retro family home on the market for first time in 70+ years
A beloved Pascoe Vale South family home with a flawlessly maintained 1950s vintage aesthetic is on the market for the first time in more than 70 years.
The three-bedroom house at 10 Mckeon Ave has ceiling roses, a retro-style white and red-coloured kitchen, sunroom, study alcove and outdoor paved entertainer’s area.
A life-size doll house that the original owner constructed for his daughter still stands in the back yard.
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Diane Gardner said her father, Leslie Sutherland, an engineer, started to plan the house after her older brother was born.
“Dad worked at night and on weekends on the house,” Ms Gardner said.
“My grandfather, a carpenter, helped him to build it and a bricklayer did the brickwork.
“Dad started building in 1948 and finished in 1950 and then carried Mum over the threshold.
“I remember Mum saying, ‘He insisted on carrying me over the threshold even though we had been married for four years’.”
The house has some curved corners which her mother Evelyn requested after seeing the feature on a Mornington property.
One of the kitchen’s top drawers, which can be pulled out like a chopping board, was often used by her parents as a breakfast bar.
The kitchen was formerly home to a now-replaced stove which was the first model released with a window through which to view food, a novelty for the era.
“We all pulled up chairs and watched a cake cook,” Ms Gardner laughed.
When her father was building the house, legislation of the time required homes to have 3.04m high (10 feet) ceilings.
“He was really cheesed off after finishing the house, because they changed the laws three months later,” Ms Gardner said.
Her father lived in the house until he was 103 years old. Sadly, he died in December, aged 104.
“He was always working on the home so it’s in really good condition,” Ms Gardner said.
“He loved his house.”
The original yellow lounge suite with black piping remains in the living area, as do many other pieces of retro furniture and kitchen items, which are available to purchase with the house is a buyer is interested.
Ms Gardner said many visitors were amazed by the house’s genuine 1950s feel.
“As it is, is exactly as it was,” she said.
“It’s just a very cute house.”
Her Dad built the life-size doll’s house for his daughter when she was a child, near his outdoor workshop.
Additional features include heating, hardwood floors, an internal laundry, tandem garage and established garden with a Hills hoist clothesline.
The home is zoned to Strathmore High Secondary College and is close to trams, CityLink, Shore Reserve’s off-lead dog park and multiple schools.
Jellis Craig Northern’s John Cataldo has the listing.
The house will be auction don August 12 a $1.25m-$1.35m asking range.
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Originally published as Pascoe Vale South: Retro family home on the market for first time in 70+ years
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