Welcome to "Coryule" - Built 1887

Albert P.Emery came from 25 Chapel Street, St Kilda to the new house. By late 1890 William Kidder Emery occupied the house, followed by John C Sibthorpe early last century, Wilhelmina Foster in 1908 and Robert Padmore Greenshield(1915).

The property has been a doctor's residence and medical consulting romms since 1915, the first medical practitioner being Dr. H. Greenshields. Dr. Hilda Heffernan purchased the property that year. She practiced in partnership with her husband. Through a remarkable coincidence, we were able to contact Dr. Heffernan's daughter, Mrs. Hilda Rawlinson who resides in Heidelberg. Mrs. Rawlinson could not tell us why her mother was the sole purchaser of the property, unusual for those times, but of great interest, is the fact that Dr. Heffernan would have been one of the very few female medical graduates trained in Australia at that time. Dr. Heffernan purpose build the brick extension on the northern side of the house as medical consulting rooms, although she and her husband first used what is now one of the front bedrooms as the consulting room and the front verandah was the waiting room!

Between this time and 1944, a Dr. James Alexander practised here. In 1944, Dr. Ivor Paull purchased this property; he lived and practised here until 1947. His son Dr. John Paul still lives and practices in Melbourne today and has visited here and contributed his knowledge of his family's time in residence.
Dr. Dumbrell purchased the property in 1993 from Dr. Edward Perlman who had practised medicine here since 1947, in partnership with Dr. Clive Salwyn, and was retiring. He resided here until 1950 and moved with his family to his current home in Kew whilst still consulting from the medical rooms. The residence was then occupied by the practice nursing sister for some years.