25 Mangalore Street, Travancore VIC 3032
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Sprawling family sanctuary
A spacious sanctuary enjoyed by one family for40 years, this sensational five-bedroom/two study residence invites new owners to take advantage of a flexible family floorplan with multiple work and living spaces on a generous allotment (approx 600 sq metres) with stunning established garden. Defined by soaring ceilings and large proportions, its wide entrance foyer opens to gracious formal living and dining rooms, two downstairs bedrooms, two huge study/library spaces and a central bathroom with bath. The unusually large laundry incorporates a half bathroom and the bright kitchen with adjoining meals area and family room overlooks a sunny, tranquil garden with direct pedestrian access to Flemington Primary School.
Upstairs offers a separate lounge retreat, three more bedrooms, spacious bathroom plus huge, easily accessed attic storage and an elevated outlook across the primary school grounds to the city skyline. Distinctive features include original Edwardian moulded ceilings and open fireplaces, gas hydronic heating, reverse cycle cooling, security system and alarm, skylights, bay windows and extensive off-street parking via side driveway and carport.
Immediately comfortable but with scope to put your own stamp on future enhancements, this magnificent family home invites a new family to make its mark in a highly sought after and community-minded location. Wonderfully positioned on the city fringe, the house is close to Royal Park gardens, Melbourne Zoo, the hospital and university precinct, Mount Alexander Road shops and cafes, city-bound public transport, and seamless connection to major freeways. Welcome to your new forever home! Nelson Alexander Pty Ltd
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Owners Notes
Welcome to our much-loved family home.
We bought this house in March 1982 on the same day our third daughter was born. She now has two daughters of her own.
The attractive park at the end of Mangalore Street is named after Arthur Calwell, leader of the Australian Labor Party in the 1950s and 60s. Our house was the original Calwell family home. If you look closely at the grouting in the front entry alcove, you can see where the Calwell children have written their names.
The people we bought the house from added a family room extension to the Calwell home. In 1993, we added the second-story extension. Subsequently we opened up rooms to improve line of sight and the flow from the front to the back of the house. We find it particularly pleasing to sit in the lounge and look through two sets of double doors and the family room windows into the back garden. It is also pleasing to look over the primary school grounds from the upstairs lounge and to stroll through the back gate onto the school oval, the scene of many football, frisbee and kite-flying adventures the family has enjoyed.
Our family has had forty treasured years at 25 Mangalore Street. Four children have grown up here. The house has hosted eighteenth and twenty-first birthday parties, two engagement parties and a wedding. It has also been home to a number of international exchange students.
We have attempted to keep the garden true to the style of the house while, over the years, accommodating fairy dells, cubby houses, tree houses, an in-ground trampoline, flying foxes, play equipment and a basketball half court. The house adapted well to the growing family’s needs. The library has served as professional rooms and, over the time of the pandemic, the two studies have meant that family members have been able to work comfortably from home.
As you can see upstairs, the house is now a happy place for grandchildren. However, it is time for us to move on from such a big family home. We wish the next family many more years in this beautiful house and garden. We hope you will be as happy here as we have been.
