Robin Boyd-designed Bruck house at Wangaratta listed
The Bruck Mills House, designed by prominent Australian architect Robin Boyd, at Wangaratta has been listed for sale at $795,000.
Bruck Textiles is selling the 1953-designed two storey, seven bedroom house which was used to accomodate guests, including many federal ministers who visited while considering the issue of textile industry tariff continuation.
Such is its worthiness that photos of the house taken by Wolfgang Sievers feature in the National Library of Australia archives (pictured below).
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Source: Wolfgang Sievers, National Library of Australia
Frederick Romberg, who worked at the architectural firm with Robin Boyd, had previously designed the Bruck Textiles premises in Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
The house comes with an east and west wing on its 2,864 square metre site. Boyd, who died in 1971, was an influential Australian architect, one of the foremost proponents for the International Modern Movement.
Bruck was founded in Wangaratta in 1946. From the 1980s it was run by Sydney ragtraders Joe Brender and Sam Moss, with another Sydney ragtrader, Phil Bart initially snapping up a 50% stake in Bruck Textiles in 2004.
Brender kept a nominal 10%, with Moss holding 30% with Phil Green's Babcock and Brown - the privately owned investment bank - holding a 20% stake.
Bart is now its only shareholder.
Last month it was announced Wangaratta will become home to Australia’s only towel manufacturing facility, with Bruck Textiles transferring the operations of its sister company Australian Weaving Mills (AWM) from Tasmania to Wangaratta with the support of $500,000 from the Victorian Coalition government.
Bruck Textiles currently employed more than 200 people at its Wangaratta plant, where it manufactures workwear, fabrics for Australian Defence forces, furnishing, and specialist protective fabrics.
The company’s new $6.1 million process and wastewater treatment project, which received almost $2.2 million in support from the Victorian government’s $1 billion Regional Growth Fund, was opened last month.
