Guilford Bell-designed JM Fraser House, Deakin sold
The 1950s Canberra home of the late former prime minister Malcolm Fraser and his wife Tamie has been sold.
It had been listed with $1,775,000 hopes.
The four-bedroom property at 8 Daly Street, known as JM Fraser House, was designed by Melbourne architect Guilford Bell in 1959.
The home was built three years after the couple wed with Malcolm Fraser then a backbencher.
The property, which was marketed as a piece of Australian history, is 300 metres from The Lodge.
It was listed through Berkely Residential and passed in on a vendor's bid of $1.7 million at recent auction.
The grand residence has origins in Georgian architecture combined with American plantation homesteads.
It has large rectangular windows and glass doors that surround the living areas and allow light to dominate each room.
It has soaring ceilings, and period features have been retained during several updates of the home by vendors Tony and Sue Marinos.
The vendors, the third owners purchased it 22 years ago for $425,000.
The property was first listed last August when $2 million was tipped for the home is on a block of 1340 square metres in Old Deakin.
It had also been listed in 2005 a $1.98 million.
