Stables at Morialta House Norton Summit. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Stables at Morialta House Norton Summit. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Norton Summit and Morialta Estate.The District Council of East Torrens based in Norton Summit was proclaimed in 1853. Three state Premiers lived here- Thomas Playford Senior, Sir John Baker and Sir Thomas Playford Junior. These Council Chambers were built in 1903 and used until 1980 when new Council Chambers were opened nearby. The East Torrens Council merged into the Adelaide Hills Council in 1997. The old Council Chambers are now the museum and the Post Office. St Johns Anglican Church was built in1872 and financed by Sir John Baker. The stone carvings by the door are Sir John and his wife. The church has an unusual octagonal tower. The early part of the Scenic Hotel was built in 1866 and the larger two storey part was added in the 1880s. Norton Summit Baptist Church opened 1882 but the first Baptist services were held at Grassy Flat from 1876.The Playford family worshipped here and along with other locals they were buried in the cemetery near the church. The original Norton Summit School operated from 1851 but a new school was built in 1875 and then taken over by the Education Department 1876. The headmaster’s house and an extra two classrooms were added in 1908. Sir John Baker was Premier of South Australia albeit briefly in 1857. He built Morialta House as a grand two-storey house of 17 main rooms with an attic floor for servants in 1847. Unusually the house had a flat roof. It also had cellars beneath and a fine cedar staircase in the entrance hall. It had magnificent views to St. Vincent Gulf and walks down to the Morialta waterfalls. Baker grew vines on the estate and had fruit orchards mainly apples and pears. He also built solid stone two storey barns, a dairy, pig sheds, store rooms etc. They are now heritage classified and listed on the SA heritage register. Since the grand days of the house it has been converted to a youth religious camp. A new third floor has been added in recent years and the old grand house is hard to recognise except for the French doors onto the veranda. A few of the large trees of the impressive old garden are still left. Baker took up 2,000 acres at Norton Summit. He was a successful and at times mean spirited pastoralist with major properties at Narrung- Lake Albert station and Terlinga near Tungkillo. Both these huge leasehold properties were taken out around 1842. On Terlinga he established an early dairy herd in 1842 which ate out the native Kangaroo grass in that district. When the grass was gone in the 1850s the dairy was closed down and it became a sheep property. The Terlinga dairy produced cheese for the Adelaide market. Terlinga was sold by Richard Baker in 1899. By the time of his death in 1872 Sir John Baker had 11,000 acres of freehold land near Lake Albert as well as leasehold land along the Coorong. Baker was antagonistic towards George Taplin and the establishment of the Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission there in 1857. As the leaseholder of land adjoining Point McLeay he objected to Taplin’s choice of location for an Aboriginal Mission as it would be “prejudicial to his interests”. The government intended making a grant for the Mission from the leasehold lands of his Lake Albert station. To try and prevent it from happening and as a state politician he initiated the first Royal Commission by an SA government into the conditions and welfare of Aboriginal people. He had hoped to have Taplin and the Aboriginal Friends’ Association ousted from his land. But this was not the outcome of the Royal Commission which looked at issues across SA, not just around the lower lakes and the Commission found no reason to relocate the Taplin Mission. In one sense Baker had one justifiable point- the Point McLeay Mission had insufficient land to provide a satisfactory livelihood for all the Aboriginal residents. They could fish the lakes and the Coorong, they could work on the pastoral properties such as Poltalloch and Campbell Park, they could grow their own vegetables, but they had insufficient land to crop or to pasture sheep or cattle on to provide sufficient income for a whole community of people. The land at Point McLeay might have provided income for one family but not dozens. This lack of land and income was an ongoing problem with the Mission. Baker’s other claims that Taplin only wanted the salary and was not interested in aboriginal welfare, that he was lazy and that he bribed the Ngarrindjeri to attend church were all patently false. Baker was clearly a mean spirited man yet he donated lands and money for the erection of the Anglican Church at Norton Summit. But he was also vain as he had a sculpture of his head carved into the stonework beside the front door. Baker died before the church was finished but his son Richard continued to worship there and his sisters. Baker was a horse breeder, Master of the Adelaide Hounds and a businessman and investor. He was a director of the Bank of Australasia, a director of the Savings Bank, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Adelaide Mining Company. Apart from Morialta, Lake Albert and Terlinga stations he had pastoral properties in the Flinders Ranges and in NSW. He was elected to parliament in 1851 and served as a Legislative Council Member for Mount Barker from then until his death in 1872. He died in Morialta House and was buried where he worshiped at Saint Georges Anglican church Magill. His parliamentary career was marked by strong opposition to many proposals including the 1857 railway from Adelaide to Gawler, and he wanted members of the Legislative Council to be elected for life. He was a conservative who fought for the rights of the wealthy pastoralists over other colonial interests. When he disliked the Governor Sir Richard MacDonnell he went to London twice to try and have him dismissed. Consequently Baker was shunned by Government House and never received the knighthood that he longed for. On the positive side Baker helped select the site of and offered support to the Botanic Gardens and he served as President of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society and was a member of the Royal Geographical Society. After Sir John Baker’s death in 1872 the house was inherited by his son Richard Baker, later Sir Richard Baker. Richard Baker lived in Morialta House until his death in 1911. Sir Richard Baker also was a politician and he was in the parliament for most but not all of the period from 1868 to 1901 when he stood for the Federal Senate and was elected. He remained in the Australian Senate until ill health forced him to resign in 1906. Sir Richard Baker was fiery in his opposition to bills and change like his father and it was he who was challenged to a duel in Victoria Square by the then Premier of South Australia, Charles Cameron Kingston in 1889. After Sir Richard’s death and the finalisation of his estate Morialta House was sold and it became Morialta Children’s Home from 1924 to 1974. The Morialta Home for Orphans and Children of Distress operated for fifty years in Morialta House with 2,500 children living there at some time. Unlike other South Australian orphanages Morialta had dormitories for babies, girls and boys so that brothers and sisters would not be separated when they entered an orphanage. Sir Richard Baker’s sister Bessie established a hospital as a charity in North Adelaide in the 1880s. She eventually decided to travel to England to live and do her charity work and so she sold the hospital in North Adelaide to the Little Company of Mary sisters in 1900. They called the hospital Calvary. Morialta House is now owned and run by Youth With a Mission. Previously a winery operated from the property. |
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