In November 1924 Purnell (now ‘Late of Beaver & Purnell’) designed for Barlow a one-storey house at 488 (the number later changed to 492) Punt Road. With cream roughcast exterior walls, stained timber louvered shutters on the windows, twisted ‘barley sugar’ columns around the front door, and a hipped red ‘Cordova’ tile roof, the house was an early example of Spanish mission-style architecture in Melbourne.