John Waterhouse Eggleston

  General Notes:

http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/Documents/4.0_Buildings_G-N.pdf

History
In 1906, John Eggleston purchased vacant land, designated as Lot 58, on the east side of Gillies Street, between Crisp and Service Streets. In that same year, he erected a nine room weatherboard house on the land. Eggleston, described as a solicitor, was still the owner and occupant in 1915 at which time the property was known as Balcomb.1
John Eggleston was in fact a prominent barrister, the principal of the distinguished Melbourne firm of Eggleston, Derham & Martin. He was the father of architect Alec Eggleston (1883-1955). The younger Eggleston trained as an architect in the office of Usher & Kemp between 1900 and 1904, and officially commenced his private practice in 1907.2 It is quite likely, however, that the young student architect designed his father's house in Hampton in 1906 as his first ever commission. Alec Eggleston later became a prominent figure in the Melbourne architectural scene, and his firm still continues today as Eggleston McDonald.
Description
Balcomb is a substantial timber Edwardian villa with attic storey and dormer windows, dominant half timbering in the Tudoresque mode and prominent shingled roof complemented by tall chimney stacks with rendered caps. The main gable incorporates a stained glass leadlight and the weatherboards have fish scale banding.

John married Emily Overend, daughter of Best Overend and Elizabeth Gould, in 1874 in Victoria.¹ (Emily Overend was born in 1856 in Victoria ³.)

John next married Ada Emily Bothwell Crouch.