Yattalunga at One Tree Hill built in local sandstone in 1851 for the Butler family. It was the grandest residence outside of Adelaide in the 1850s. It has magnificent gardens and picked stone work. Garden pillar and wall in stone. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Yattalunga at One Tree Hill built in local sandstone in 1851 for the Butler family. It was the grandest residence outside of Adelaide in the 1850s. It has magnificent gardens and picked stone work. Garden pillar and wall in stone. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Yattalunga.Where did the name for the district and stunning Georgian sandstone house come from? It is from two local Aboriginal Peramangk words, “yattala” meaning waterfall or cascade and “unga” meaning place? But is this so? There were over 400 very distinct Aboriginal languages in Australia yet there is also a Yattalunga near Gosford in NSW and another near Geraldton in WA apart from the one in SA. Clearly the site was very important to the Peramangk people as the caves on the South Para River below the house contain Aboriginal cave art dating back thousands of years. These cave paintings of birds and other symbols were discovered in 1902. Yattalunga house is a fine two storey Georgian sandstone house built in 1851 according to the National Trust. In its day it was the largest house outside of Adelaide and locally known as “Butler’s Folly.” The first owner Phillip Butler arrived in SA in 1838. He certainly had his first child born at Yattalunga in 1850 and other children were born there in the 1850s. In 1854 Phillip’s brother Richard Butler also arrived in SA with his family and started farming at Yattalunga. It appears the families of both Richard senior and Phillip were raised at Yattalunga. Phillip returned to England in the late 1850s but after his wife died in England in 1862 he returned to Yattalunga and remarried in Gawler in 1863. Phillip returned permanently to England in 1873 and it appears that part of the Yattalunga property passed to Richard Butler senior and his heirs with the mansion eventually going to the Barritt family. This probably occurred around 1900. Richard’s most famous son, Richard Butler, later Sir Richard Butler (1850-1925) was born in England in 1850. He farmed at Mallala and at his uncle’s property of Yattalunga in the 1870s. In 1890 he won a seat in the SA parliament for the electorate of Yatala which covered the district of Yattalunga. He became a government minister, including Treasurer, and later Premier in 1905 but for many years he was the Leader of the Opposition. His political career ended in 1919. He had moved his residence to Adelaide in 1899 from Yattalunga.Sir Richard’s second son Richard Layton Butler, later Sir Richard, also became Premier of SA. He was born at Yattalunga in 1885 and worked for his father’s stock and station supply firm Butler, Shannon & Co for some years at Hamley Bridge. He entered parliament in 1915. He was Premier of SA from 1927-30 and again from 1933-38. Some land at Yattalunga was still owned by members of the Butler family in 1947, namely Colonel Charles Butler, but since 1901 the Butlers did their farming at Mallala and Francis Barritt and family took over the grand house of Yattalunga. In 1994 the property was purchased by conservation architect Ron Danvers and Tricia Barker who have lovingly restored the house and garden. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-10-03 22:13:59 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-W710 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.006 sec (1/160) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |
| 焦点距離 | 5 mm |