Property History
In the early 1920s, Marino Lucas purchased the mansion Fairholme in Alexandra Street, St Kilda East, Victoria. He subsequently subdivided a portion of the north-eastern section of the grounds and built five residential houses in the then popular California Bungalow style. After his death on 28 September 1931 at the height of the Great Depression, the mansion was sold, becoming a reception hall and is today modified for use as The Rabbinical College of Australia & NZ
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