Australian House & Garden

A LEGACY of LOVE

This isn’t the first time this Mid-century home on Sydney’s Lower North Shore has featured in H&G – in fact, it was the cover star in November 1959. Built by Allan Frazer, a talented jack-of-all trades who owned a manufacturing business, and his sailing buddy, architect Geoffrey Twibill, in 1958, it has been home to Allan’s daughter Linda practically her whole life.

“This house means everything to me,” says Linda. “Dad built it for my mother, Hilja, who was the love of his life, and left it to me. There’s something about the water, the

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