Eulamere

'Eulamere' is an imposing residence built for Frederick Watson circa 1910. The house was designed by prominent architect Alexander Brown Wilson, whose domestic designs also include ‘Kinauld’ (1888), ‘Leckhampton’ (c.1889), ‘Como’ (1889-90) and ‘Home’ (c.1902). Watson, managing director of the Hall-Gibbs Mercantile Agency, lived in the house with his wife Effie, who was the daughter of a Surat grazier, and their three children. In the mid-1930s, Eulamere was leased to tenants and then sold in 1946. This large high-set home features a corrugated iron hip roof, large verandahs and a gabled front room with timber battening and casement windows, and is demonstrative of the early twentieth century growth of Mowbray Terrace as a desirable residential address.