Tenterfield. The School of Arts and the Italianate Post Office. School of Arts built 1876 and 1888. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Tenterfield. The School of Arts and the Italianate Post Office. School of Arts built 1876 and 1888. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Tenterfield. Population 3,000.Tenterfield is often regarded as the home of Federation as the Premier of NSW Sir Henry Parkes gave a seminal address here in 1889 about the need for a national government which led, many years later, to the formation of the Australian Commonwealth in 1901. Although Parkes (1815- 1896) died five years before federation he started the movement and pushed for the first Constitutional Convention in 1891. Parkes was Premier of NSW for five separate terms between 1872 and 1891 being in office for 16 years. Tenterfield is nearly 900 metres above sea level on the New England Tablelands. The first sheep station was established here in 1840 called Deepwater station. When Stuart Donaldson bought it in 1844 he renamed it Tenterfield after his family’s Scottish property. Donaldson became the first Premier of New South Wales in 1856. A town site was surveyed within Tenterfield station in 1849 but Courthouse had been established in 1847. A hotel and post service started in 1849. The town was officially gazetted in 1851 with land sales starting in 1854. The town grew after 1858 when gold was discovered in the Great Dividing Range and a bank was built in 1858. A flourmill had been built in 1854 and the first church, which was Anglican, opened in 1860. Tenterfield was declared a municipality in 1871 and the era of fine stone buildings began. The railway reached the town in 1884 although the official opening was in 1886 when the line continued to Brisbane. Some of the impressive array of heritage buildings in the Main Street beginning in the south include are: 1.Stannum House. This fine Victorian mansion was built in 1888 for John Reid a mining magnate. It was used a military hospital during WW2 when 10,000 troops were stationed in Tenterfield ready to defend NSW again a Japanese invasion. It is now run as a bed and breakfast establishment. Note its bay windows, fancy barge boards to the street facing gable, the exquisite cast iron lace work on the verandas and the captain’s walk on the roof. 2.On the corner is the Information centre but turn left here when coming from Stannum House to see the modern red brick Romanesque style Catholic Church. 3. The Sir Henry Parkes Museum is in the former School of Arts building. The stuccoed classical part was built in 1876. Sir Henry Parkes delivered his Tenterfield Oration here in 1889. It was the first building acquired by the National Trust in NSW in 1957. It is now the museum. It was built in four stages with the last building erected in 1913 but most of it was built in 1884. 4.Turn left here only if you want to walk a few blocks to see the railway station built in 1886.It is now a railway museum. Also just a short way down this street is a fine three storey house built in 1871. It was built as a flour mill for Thomas Peberdy. It was converted to a steam mill and flour sold locally and into Queensland. The mill closed in the early 20th century. 5.Post Office. The Italianate style Post Office was built in 1881. Its French mansard roof clock tower is a dominant feature beside the classical Greek style arched colonnade. The tower was completed in 1891. If you turn left here along Manners St for 7 blocks you get to the historic railway station. It is now a museum.6.The Art Deco style Bank of NSW with inset porch and arched window above it is next. Built around 1920. 7.Beyond the park on the right is the Bank of NSW. A superb early example of Art Deco architecture. Further along on the right are the Art Deco National Buildings 1914.8.Turn next right in High St for the Saddler Shop which is next to the Vinnies OP Shop. It was built in 1860 and run by George Woolnough the grandfather of song writer and singer Peter Allen. Peter Allen immortalised the building in the song “Tenterfield Saddler”. Peter Allen (1944) grew up in Armidale and later moved to Lismore. His father committed suicide and the song tells this story on the Tenterfield Saddler. 9.Opposite it is the two storey Spanish Mission style Art Deco Royal Hotel. This was the site of the original George Inn in 1849. 10.On the next cross road is the Methodist Church. The first one was built in 1867 and replaced with this brick church in 1928 after the first burnt down. Next to it in Logan St is the manse built in the 1890s in red brick. Two blocks along Logan St is the Presbyterian Church built in 1884. Banjo Paterson got married here in 1903. Return to Methodist Church. Continue across High Street. 11.See the Centenary Cottage. This charming steep pitched roof cottage was built in 1871 and now is a local museum. Return to the Methodist Church corner.12.Good walkers might like to see Deloraine House. Continue along High St. and left into Clarence St. This stone house was built in 1872/73 for Henry Bauer. The land was sold in 1858. His wife inherited it in 1872. It may have been a hotel for a short time. After 1877 it was leased to the Moses family who held Jewish religious meetings in it. It changed hands in 1889 to the Whitton family who held it from then until 1985. It is now run as a bed and breakfast place. Return to the Main Street.13.At the Main Street if you cross over you will see the old Tenterfield School built in 1887. A slab building behind it was the first school in 1866. Return to the Main Street and turn left. 14.Next on right is a two storey square squat tower building with the triangular pediment over the front door was a late 19th century bank built in 1891. It is now a rural bank. 15.Next on right is Kneipp Saddle and Harness Emporium 1892. It is a great example of a 1890s commercial premise. It still has the old urns on the corners of the pediment. 16.Almost next door is the Tenterfield Star Building. This produced the local newspaper. This building was erected in 1913. The paper was founded in 1870. The owner had his solicitor offices in it too. 17.Next left at Molesworth St for some architectural gems. The first is the Soldier Memorial Hall 1924 with the War Memorial in front of it. It is a fine red brick building with cement rendered and painted quoins.18.Next to it is the Tenterfield Courthouse with its clerestory windows. It was built in 1885 and designed by Colonial architect J Barnet. The complex originally had a police station and gaol beside it. The central Courthouse has two Palladian identical wings each side of it. One would have been the police station. The early gaol and police structures were built in 1870. Return to Main Street and turn left to our meeting point. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-06-23 13:48:51 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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