Rosedale in the Barossa Valley. Holland House along the North Para River. Marble pillars and decorations around a Gothic bay window. Built in 1860 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Rosedale in the Barossa Valley. Holland House along the North Para River. Marble pillars and decorations around a Gothic bay window. Built in 1860 / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Holland House/Turretfield. Henry Dundas Murray one of the participants in the Gawler Special Survey of 1839 acquired the land where Holland House was later built. He had 530 acres there in addition to the 7½ acres of “donated Land” for the township of Gawler. Murray was a Scot and named his property Turretfield after the town in the Shetland Islands but his family actually came from Perthshire in Scotland. Murray went on to acquire the Gawler Boiling Down Works in the 1840s and he moved that to the banks of the North Para River at Turretfield. The works soon closed down and Murray left SA for New Zealand. Richard Holland, the son of a convict sent to NSW, was the next owner of this land from 1853 which totalled 936 acres by then. He obtained more land in 1860 (totalling 1,800 acres) and used it for stock breeding and mixed farming with wheat, pig farming, racehorses and some sheep. In 1860 Richard Holland also commissioned Adelaide architect James MacGeorge (best known for his French Mansard Roofed residence at 121 Kingston Terrace North Adelaide in 1862 and the original Maugham Methodist Church 1866) to design him a Tudor Gothic sandstone mansion with stables on a rise of land overlooking the North Para River and the Barossa Valley. No doubt Richard Holland wanted to outdo the Gothic sandstone mansion that Stephen King had had built further along the North Para in 1856 which is still known as Kingsford House. Sandstone used for the tops of the turrets was brought out from England as ballast but the rest was local Barossa Valley sandstone. The tower was designed to take Richard Holland’s lead lined coffin when he died but it was also built as an impressive lookout. The house had 14 main rooms with an extensive cellar or basement cut into the hillside. Richard Holland resided here from 1862 until his death in 1881. Holland married a widow and with his three stepsons all named Robertson he invested in several large pastoral properties along the Murray River including Chowilla, Bookpurnong and Bookmark. Robertson descendants still lease Chowilla station near Renmark. After Richard Holland’s death, when he was at first interred in the vault of Holland House tower, the Turretfield property passed to his stepsons who later sold it on to Henry Angas Evans brother-in-law of John Howard Angas of Collingrove in 1889. The Evans family sold the property on to the South Australian government in 1900. It is now known as Turretfield Research Centre. Because the coffin of Richard Holland was not air tight a few weeks later he was re-interred in St George’s Anglican cemetery in Gawler beside his wife Margaret. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-03-19 12:07:21 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.033 sec (1/30) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |