The Holiday Lodge, 55 Macleay Street Potts point, is the last piece of a puzzle.

it is a remnant of an original Victorian suite of residential chambers, as they were then called.

It is now used for casual accommodation.

The whole site once extended from Challis Avenue through to McDonald Street.

Today’s Chimes apartments on its northern side adjacent was designed in the 1970s by immigrant European architect Hugo Stossel.

On its southern side the site was converted into the famous Yellow House and adaptively re-used. The Yellow House is pain yellow and was named and painted after Van Gogh’s French Provencale house/studio.

The Yellow House was an artists’ collective ted vovid yellow and from 1970-1973 was used by artists such as Martin Sharp and film maker Peter Weir.

The original southern corner section of the original building has been converted to shops with apartments above.

The site is part of a continuing evolution of adaptive re-uses and evolutionary change in the area.

By

Andrew Woodhouse

Heritage Solutions