House, 39 Flinders Parade
In the latter 19th century, this site was owned by John Daniel,
ironmonger, who had a weatherboard house built in 1891. He also had a boat shed
built on the foreshore.With his death in 1905, the property was passed on to his
son?, Arthur Frederick Daniel, also an ironmonger. He owned the house for about five
years, before selling it to Dr A. Sheppard and Mrs Amy Gertrude Grimwade in 1911-12.
The Grimwades carried out extensive alterations and additions to the house at this time.
Dr Grimwade was a medical practitioner in Geelong, and he and his wife lived at
"Keerie Kara" in Ryrie Street (the site of the present Geelong Private
Hospital). At one time Dr Grimwade was commodore of the Royal Geelong Yacht Club, while
Mrs Grimwade 'had the unique. distinction of being the only lady member of any yacht
club in the
Commonwealth in recognition of her services', for she also shared her husband's enthusiasm
for yachting.
The symmetrical, two storey, horizontal weatherboard "loosely" Edwardian style
house is characterised by several interlocking gable roof forms. Two projecting flat
roofed bay windows with minor gables flank the building, with an original central
gable which is penetrated by a recent second storey gable addition. Two early brick
corbelled chimneys adorn the roofline. Early decorative features of the design include the
worked timber verandah elements, and flying gables to the flanking wings, notably the
shingling and worked timber elements.
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