The Rear of the Former Presbyterian Manse - Colac

            Built in 1912 on a deep corner block as a replacement for the original 1855 Manse next door, this former Presbyterian Manse may be found in the Western District town of Colac.

Elegant in its proportions, this red brick building crosses two very different popular architectural styles.  The former Presbyterian Manse is typically Victorian in shape, with a central front door and a beautiful return bull-nosed verandah of corrugated iron on the main street façade with a bedroom wing on the quieter side street façade.  The arched windows of the former Presbyterian Manse are also very Victorian in style; large and arched.  Yet it also has features of the Arts and Crafts movement, such as the choice of red brick for the construction and the roughcast treatment of the walls under the gables.  It also features Art Nouveau fretwork along the verandah, panels of Art Nouveau stained glass in the front door, and the tall chimneys that are typical of the Federation Queen Anne architectural movement of the early Twentieth Century.  

Queen Anne style was most popular around the time of Federation.  With complex roofline structures, ornamental towers of unusual proportions and undulating facades, many Queen Anne houses fell out of fashion at the beginning of the modern era, and were demolished.

Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac.  The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray.  A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains.  The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches.  The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name.  The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it.  Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city.  Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people.  Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets.  Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).

Taken on: April 22, 2014

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