Belair. South Australia. Entrance hall to Old Government House which was a summer retreat for SA governors from 1860 to 1880. Seldom used by governors after 1869. Lady Blanche MacDonnell's tea service. He was Governor 1855 to 1862. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Belair. South Australia. Entrance hall to Old Government House which was a summer retreat for SA governors from 1860 to 1880. Seldom used by governors after 1869. Lady Blanche MacDonnell's tea service. He was Governor 1855 to 1862. / denisbin
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| 説明 | . Belair National Park and Entrance. When the park was declared the entrance from Belair Station and Sheoak Road was the main entrance to the park as almost all visitors came by train. But the origins of the park go back to the early days. A summer house for the governor was erected in 1859 and occupied from 1860 onwards until Marble Hill was completed in 1878. Government officials used the house after that time. Around 1880 the government tried to subdivide and sell the farm. This aroused public condemnation and a local Belair resident, Walter Gooch led a crusade to preserve the area, its fauna and flora. The railway brought visitors to the old government farm and from 1883 the Field Naturalists began to urge the creation of a national park. Gooch persisted and in 1891 the Belair National Park Act was passed. It was the second national park in Australia, after the Royal Park near Sydney and it was the fourth National Park in the world. The Belair Lodge House near Belair station, which is still occupied, was completed in 1893. Walter Gooch was made one of the first Commissioners of the National Park. Commissioners ran the park until 1972 when it was put under the control of the department of National Parks and Wildlife Service. Old Government House. It was Governor Richard MacDonnell (1855-62) who wanted a summer residence away from the heat of Adelaide. The Colonial architect Edward Hamilton drew up the plans for a simple little cottage on government Farm with an “indoor swimming pool” to preserve the vice regal couple’s modesty. Work was completed in June 1860 including terraces and fences. MacDonnell’s successor was Governor Dominick Daly (1862-68.) During his governorship Prince Alfred the Prince of Wales visited Old Government House in 1867. Daly’s successor Sir James Fergusson (1869-73) preferred the cooler climate of Robe for a summer retreat and he used Karatta House. In turn his successor Sir William Jervois who arrived in 1877 immediately selected land near Ashton for a new grand summer Governor’s mansion to be known as Marble Hill. From 1880 Old Government House was never again to be used by SA governors. Old Government House was then passed to the control of the Woods and Forests Department for use as a manager’s residence. This arrangement only ceased in 1958 when a parcel of land within the Belair National Park was exchanged for a new Woods and Forest nursery. Restoration work began in 1960 with an official re-opening in 1961. With changes the current Old government House contains an entrance hall, study, dining room, bedroom with a downstairs bathroom. The Servants’ Quarters which were built in 1857 (before the house was constructed) contained laundries, kitchen etc. The crowning feature of the house is the dining room with a bay window facing south across the balustraded terrace. In recent years the garden has been restored again. Originally it had a rose garden with 1860s varieties of old European roses. |
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