Horatio Jones house is a house in

Tecoma, Victoria Tecoma is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 35 km east from Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, central business district and 1 km west of Belgrave, Victoria, Belgrave, located within the Shire of Yarra ...

built in or around 1920-1926 by Australian inventor, engineer and recluse Horatio Thomas Jones. The two-storied house is constructed of flattened four-gallon kerosene tins using hand-made tools.Horatio Jones House
Victorian Heritage Database Jones was briefly engaged to Caroline Hearst, but was invalided in the Battle of Gallipoli and broke off his engagement upon returning home. In 1920 he purchased land in the Dandenong ranges and built the home for himself and his two sisters Christina and Annie. He never married. The home is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and is described as a "substantially intact and rare example of shanty construction of the early twentieth century."

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{{reflist, 30em Architecture of Melbourne Houses in Melbourne Heritage-listed buildings in Melbourne Buildings and structures in the Shire of Yarra Ranges