'Fairyhills' ('Ballangeich'), 25 Riverside Road, Ivanhoe, Victoria, the home of Norman and May Macgeorge

A view taken from the Yarra River of the south elevation of Norman and May Macgeorge’s home 'Fairyhills' ('Ballangeich'), 25 Riverside Road, Ivanhoe, soon after it's construction. A part of the house on the next block to the east is included in the photograph. In 1911 the Macgeorges engaged Harold Desbrowe-Annear to design the timber and roughcast house at the junction of the Yarra River and Darebin Creek in Ivanhoe. The interior was typical of Desbrowe-Annear's Arts and Crafts houses with the rooms flowing into each other from the hall. The architect designed some of the furniture and also planned the garden. Norman Macgeorge was born in Adelaide on 8 July 1872, the son of a prosperous draper. He studied art at the Adelaide School of Design and the National Gallery School in Melbourne and then taught drawing at Wesley College, 1902-1906, the Melbourne Teachers’ College and Melbourne Church of England Grammar, 1902-32. He married May Ina Hepburn on 25 Jan 1911, the granddaughter of pioneering pastoralist, Capt. John Hepburn. They lived in this house for the rest of their lives and the location provided the scenery for many of Norman’s paintings. Inscription: "The HOUSE from the RIVER" written in ink on the back of the photograph. Previous Control Number: UMA/I/3930 Previous Control Number: BWP/12266 ; 203822 Item: [1975.0111.00093] "'Fairyhills' ('Ballangeich'), 25 Riverside Road, Ivanhoe, Victoria, the home of Norman and May Macgeorge"