Welch House by Peter Swan
The Welch House in the Sydney suburb of St Ives is something of a mid-century anomaly in that very little is known about its creator. Architect Peter Swan was commissioned by Rhoderic and Marjorie Welch to design a house for their family in about 1962. Why Swan was chosen is not clear, nor do we know a lot about the work of Peter Swan. We do know that he designed a series of drive-through banks in the Sydney suburbs of Burwood, Ashfield and Bankstown for the English, Scottish and Australian Bank in the late 1950s and that, by the
