Moonee Ponds: 1900s-era house featuring a secret bar up for sale for the first time in almost 50 years

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A Spanish Mission-style facade welcomes visitors at 59 Park St, Moonee Ponds.

A Moonee Ponds house full of period features including a secret bar is almost like a museum showcasing life at the turn of the twentieth century.

Located on a corner block, the 59 Park St home with a Spanish Mission-style facade

is for sale with a $2.75m-$2.95m range.

Rendina Real Estate director Lou Rendina said it is believed that the residence, last sold in 1977, dates back to the early 1900s.

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“It’s a gorgeous home – it has original features like the dado oak panelling, beautiful arched leadlight windows and decorative cornices and plasterwork, it’s in pristine condition,” Rendina says.

“It is like has been locked up and had no one living there.”

The front porch leads to a hallway with timber panelling, plate rails and ornate ceilings.

Double doors open to the formal lounge room with a Jetmaster fireplace and the separate dining space has a concealed bar to store alcohol in.

Rendina described the laminex curved bar as cleverly disguised, “almost like a linen cupboard”.

“That would be as old as the house itself,” he said

Leadlight windows, ornate ceilings and Axminister carpets feature throughout.

Rendina Real Estate director Lou Rendina says the porch is a great place to have breakfast.

Timber detailing adds to the period atmosphere.

Rendina says the owners’ late husband, a master builder, completed an extension to the living, kitchen and outdoor patio area.

The updated kitchen has parquetry flooring, shaker-style cabinetry and a 110cm Falcon oven.

Near-new Axminister wool carpets have also been installed along with gas central heating and reverse-cycle refrigerated cooling, O’Gorman drapery, Perrin and Rowe tapware, a monitored alarm and security cameras.

The lockup garage is accessed off Mantell St, while a separate studio and office space has bathroom facilities.

The kitchen has been updated with a 110cm Falcon oven, shaker-style cabinetry and timber bench tops.

The owner’s late husband, a master builder, kept the house in tip-top condition.

An arched window in one of the three bedrooms.

And the abode is a short walk to the Moonee Ponds shops, train station, restaurants, Queens Park, Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School junior girls’ campus, Lowther Hall Anglican School and St Columba’s College.

Mr Rendina said the home will suit families and downsizers, including those coming from 1000sq m-plus acreages who still want some outdoor space.

The property, set on 540sq m, has an oak tree in the front garden and is fitted with an irrigation system.

Expressions of interest for the three-bedroom house will close at 3pm on December 19.

A beautiful window lets sunlight into the bathroom.

There’s also a separate studio and office, plus a garage.

The bar is concealed in what appears, at first glance, to be a cupboard.

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