Some of Eaglemont's heritage ...

This lovely house is called Awaba and is in the Victorian Heritage Database

It is described as "of local architectural and historical significance, is an unusual and picturesque example of Queen Anne style, notable for its distinctive verandah details and stained glass. It is a large and early house of the area, and was built for a regionally prominent businessmen. The house gave its name to the original suburban subdivision.

Nilss has sent us this interesting snippet about it:

After moving from NSW to Victoria we settled in Melbourne and eventually moved to a suburb called Eaglemont, very european, but the house I grew up in was called ‘Awaba’ which comes from the indigenous word for ‘a flat place’. Now this was a little strange as the word itself comes from NSW and the house is in Victoria. Stranger still, the house is on top of quite a steep hill in a suburb that is nothing but hills. We used to speculate that the man who built the house must have originally come from NSW or have some connection to it. (A.C. Flory)