Eaglemont, Victoria

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Golden Summer, Eaglemont by Arthur Streeton (1889)

Eaglemont, formerly known as Mount Eagle, is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located between the suburbs of Heidelberg and Ivanhoe, and is in the Local Government Area of the City of Banyule. The postcode of Eaglemont is 3084.

1 History
2 Present
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] History

Two properties were built in the area in the 1840s; "Leighton" was built by the Bolden brothers, whilst "Hartlands" was built by novelist S. J. Browne. "Hartlands was located on the elevated region known as Mount Eagle, and was subdivided in 1853. The area remained agricultural, apart from a large house and gardens, named "Mount Eagle", built in the late 1850s by parliamentarian J. H. Brooke.

During the landboom of the 1880s, the "Mount Eagle" and "Leighton" properties were bought by a syndicate and subdivided. The area was named Mount Eagle Estate. The "Mount Eagle" property failed to sell, and remained vacant until 1888 when it was made available to a group of artists. This group became known as the Heidelberg School, and included Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and Frederick McCubbin.

In 1915 Walter Burley Griffin was commissioned to design a subdivision in the area. The design incorporated curving streets which followed the contours of the land, and public parklands. In 1916 he designed the nearby area of Glenard upon similar principles. Griffin became a resident of Eaglemont, and designed numerous houses in the area.

[edit] Present

Eaglemont's small shopping strip has a 'village charm' about it, and the shopkeepers know many of the residents personally^{[citation needed]}. Shops include a newsagency, fruit shop, grocery store, book shop, along with the well received 'Eagle Bar'.^[1] The suburb's median house prices are amongst the highest in Melbourne, and the market for its properties is notoriously tough to break, with few houses going up for sale.^[2] The suburb is well serviced by public transport, having its own train station, as well as bus routes.