This three storey substantial terrace is Intact with the lower storey taking advantage of the hill slope. It's common garden is hidden at the rear of the buildings.
Beautifully maintained group of terraces divided into apartments and with a common garden to the rear.
1855 (prior to) Crown Allotments Maps - indentifying areas 28 27 and 42 as owned by HF Gurner with 28/27 being where Eden Terrace is located. The general area was primarily divided between F G Dalgety and H F Gurner. Dalgety Street was not constructed at the point of the original land sales.- https://stkildahistory.org.au/our-collection/resources/m27281857 (prior to) Crown Allotments identified on St Kilda Planning Maps reflecting subdivisions starting in 1843 Crown land sales. https://stkildahistory.org.au/our-collection/resources/m27
1855 Kearney Map 4 shows the new streets running east west being Dalghety Street (unnamed on this map) and Gurner Street: the allotment for EdenTerrace in Dalghety Street is vacant at this point. https://stkildahistory.org.au/our-collection/resources/kearney-1
1873 J Vardy WW3 Numbers 58 -65 now fully developed and indentified as all owned by J McGee https://stkildahistory.org.au/our-collection/resources/vardy-plans
Eden Terrace was erected in 1856-57 to a design by the architect John Felix Matthews for the developer Thomas Eden. It comprised eight stuccoed brick two-storey houses with attic and sub-basement spaces.esigned by the architect, John Felix Matthews,
1883 Secondary Architects of the existing two storey verandah designed by Reed Henderson & Smart
The terrace featured restrained Regency detailing typical of the 1850s, including French doors which opened onto a verandah at ground floor level. The terrace has experienced a number of additions and alterations over the years. The most major of these were the construction in 1883 of the existing two storey verandah designed by Reed Henderson & Smart, and in 1917 the demolition of the earlier service wings and their re-building to a design by the architects Sydney Smith & Ogg.
The terrace is presently divided into twenty-four flats. These have recently been refurbished by the owners with the aim of restoring the facade to its 1917 appearance, and modifying the attic and service wing roof areas to provide additional entertainment space. Eden Terrace is one of the earliest surviving examples of Melbourne's residential terrace buildings. It is the largest example in Melbourne of a two-storey terrace with attic and semi-basement. It provides an early example of changing architectural styles and patterns of occupancy in terrace housing in the early twentieth century, as large terrace houses were converted to flats, reflecting the changing social status of the inner suburbs, particularly St Kilda. The current and proposed alterations to the interior of the 1917 service wings do not affect the fabric of the nineteenth century building. The new windows and doors introduced into the attic areas are not obtrusive and do not appear to have impaired the significance of the terrace.