Adare House Victor Harbor. Pretty corner bay window of this 1892 building which is now a conference centre. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Adare House Victor Harbor. Pretty corner bay window of this 1892 building which is now a conference centre. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Victor Harbor Adare. The other grand mansion built in Victor was Adare, the summer home and eventual main residence of Daniel Cudmore. But this grand Victorian fanciful house with leadlight windows, towers and turrets, bay windows and towers began life as a simple cottage which was dramatically added to in 1892-93. The origins of Adare go back to the foundation of SA. Governor Hindmarsh asked for a survey to be made at Victor in January 1837 just days after the proclamation of SA. He then started making moves to have the capital sited there and not at William Light’s choice of Adelaide on the Torrens River. Hindmarsh persisted and reacted favourably to reports of the Victor area from Captain Lipson in November 1837 and Captain Hart in 1838. In June 1838 Governor Hindmarsh declared a port and town at Victor. The local river here was named Hindmarsh after the Governor. In July the Colonial Office notified Hindmarsh of termination of his governorship to resolve the issues between himself and Colonel Light about the location of the capital. Hindmarsh was an autocratic man who looked down upon the “lower orders” and spoke rudely to many. He sailed for England in July 1837 but left his wife and children in Adelaide to manage his affairs here. Mrs Hindmarsh did not return to England until 1841 with a large amount of money. Governor Gawler arrived in October 1838 replacing Hindmarsh but Hindmarsh was kept informed of SA progress and he purchased extensive land in April 1839 near the Bluff and along the Hindmarsh River, hence the locality of Hindmarsh Valley. Mrs Hindmarsh married one of their daughters to Captain Ellis the wealthy pastoralist of Buckland Park and later the Hummocks run and the other daughter to George Stephen a local lawyer. Son John (born 1820) kept some of the land but much of it was sold off enabling Mrs Hindmarsh to return to England in 1841 with £12,000. Mrs Hindmarsh built a summer cottage on the property in 1839 and she may have lived in it until 1841. That cottage has since disappeared. John Hindmarsh Junior, aged 21 years, returned to England with his mother in 1841 but he later returned to live in SA from 1855 when he was 36 years of age. He first of all lived at Port Elliot until he built a new house on the Hindmarsh River property in 1863. It is now the rear part of Adare House marked by its different architectural style. In 1858 young John Hindmarsh sued the government for £48,000 for building a wharf on his land at Encounter Bay without permission but he only received £2,000 in compensation. John Junior served as a local lawyer and Justice of the Peace at Port Elliot and at Victor. He also had land at Port Adelaide which his father had acquired in 1838. (Governor Hindmarsh was a great land speculator.) Late in life in 1878 John Hindmarsh moved to Napier in New Zealand and his descendants reside in New Zealand. One of his sons was the founding President of the WEA in Wellington! The Hindmarsh River property of John Hindmarsh Junior was called Mootaparinga Farm and it was taken over by Hindmarsh’s sister, Mrs Evans in 1878. She lived there till she died in 1881. Mootaparinga was then sold to Mr Hart in 1881(he ran the Crown Hotel) who in turn sold it to Daniel Cudmore in 1891. Daniel Cudmore had Adare House erected in 1892 from a design by Macclesfield architect Frederick Dancker who designed a number of well-known SA buildings such as the old Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, Macclesfield Institute etc. Daniel Cudmore with his brother James ran one of the great pastoral partnerships in SA. The partnership began with Yongala station and Paringa on the Murray but once the brothers went their separate ways Daniel ran Avoca on the Darling near Wentworth and Popiltah and Boondoon in Queensland. He also had a 3,000 acre sugar plantation using Kanaka labourers along the Herbert River near Ingham in QLD. He gave the name of McCracken to the rest of his land as it was the maiden name of his second wife Martha whom he married in 1882. Cudmore financially supported the Anglican Church at Wentworth and was a local magistrate there. He retired to Adare when it was completed in 1893 and he died there in 1913. He had six sons and one daughter. One son, Paul Cudmore remained at Victor Harbor being the town Mayor, a Liberal politician for the district and a local sportsman. He died in Victor in 1969. But he did not live at Adare as his mother lived there until 1938 and then the house was sold to Mr Humphris in 1942. This grand house was then sold to the Methodist Church as a camp and conference centre in 1954 and it remains the property of the Uniting Church. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-09-12 14:51:44 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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