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Author Barrow, Graeme.

Title Canberra's historic houses : dwellings and ruins of the 19th century / Graeme Barrow
Published Canberra : Dagraja Press, 1998

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Description x, 90 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Contents 1. Elm Grove -- 2. Horse Park -- 3. Crinigans Hut -- 4. Gold Creek -- 5. Sunny Corner -- 6. Eneagh Hill -- 7. Avoca -- 8. Winarlia -- 9. Deasland -- 10. Ginnindera Schoolhouse -- 11. The Valley -- 12. Well Station -- 13. Belconnen Farm -- 14. Gungahlin -- 15. Rosebud Cottage -- 16. Old Canberra Inn -- 17. Blundells Cottage -- 18. St John's Schoolhouse -- 19. Duntroon House -- 20. Stone House, Majura -- 21. Majura House -- 22. Glenburn -- 23. William Collier's Homestead -- 24. Yarralumla -- 25. The Oaks -- 26. Mugga Mugga -- 27. Green Hills -- 28. Woden -- 29. Hill Station -- 30. Stone Ruin, Mugga Lane -- 31. Rose Cottage -- 32. Tuggeranong Schoolhouse -- 33. Tuggeranong Homestead -- 34. Congwarra -- 35. Nil Desperandum -- 36. Calvary -- 37. Slab Building, Paddys River -- 38. Rock Valley -- 39. Lambrigg -- 40. Lanyon -- 41. Blythburn -- 42. Braeside -- 43. Spring Station -- 44. Tennent Homestead -- 45. Riverview Fireplace -- 46. Naas Valley -- 47. Gregory Homestead -- 48. Orroral Homestead -- 49. Brayshaws Hut -- 50. Westermans
Summary “Graeme Barrow explores fifty sites, some of them dwellings of the well-to-do, others cottages inhabited by struggling farmers, in this fascinating appreciation of where Canberra's pioneers lived in the nineteenth century. A few sites are ruins while others are approaching this state. The author mounts a strong case for conservation of what is left. Canberra had its share of characters last century. There was the part-time newspaper correspondent later accused of killing a man in a prank. Not that far away another killing was committed by a person upset by the attention being paid to his wife. At the other end of the social scale, the founder of what became the Royal Military College, Duntroon, died peacefully in his homestead garden. Another settler stayed here briefly, but his name lives on 160 years afterwards in what is now a historic museum. Nineteenth century residents objected to what became the Old Canberra Inn while in more modern times another future inn was threatened with demolition for roadworks. A quarrelsome Irishman who attacked his opponents in verse, lived in what is not the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. Another poet remained a spinster all her life after her father denied her permission to marry. She wore a black-banded wedding ring and remembered her lover with plaintive verse.”--Back cover
Analysis Canberra (A.C.T.) - Buildings, structures, etc
Historic buildings - Australian Capital Territory
Notes Bibliography
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliography and index
Subject Historic buildings -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.)
Historic buildings -- Australia -- Australian Capital Territory.
SUBJECT Canberra (A.C.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021725 -- Buildings, structures, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820
ISBN 0958755221