Mintaro. SA. Martindale Hall. The upstairs Italianate arched halls in Martindale Hall. Built for Edmund Bowman in 1880. Bequeathed to the University of Adelaide by John Mortlock he was a very wealthy sheep pastoral family. . : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mintaro. SA. Martindale Hall. The upstairs Italianate arched halls in Martindale Hall. Built for Edmund Bowman in 1880. Bequeathed to the University of Adelaide by John Mortlock he was a very wealthy sheep pastoral family. . / denisbin
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| 説明 | Martindale Hall. Edmund Bowman Senior (1818 to 1866) arrived in SA 1838.he soon had farms at Dry Creek and Enfield. He built a Gothic mansion called Barton Vale 1854. He then acquired properties, usually in conjunction with his brothers, at Black Springs, Wanilla, Holm Hill and Martindale on the Upper Wakefield and Werocata and Pareora on the lower Wakefield as well as the Crystal Brook run in the mid north. Edmund Bowman Junior (1855 to 1921) inherited a great fortune when Edmund Senior died in 1866 but this was kept in trust until 1876. As a very wealthy young man he set about erecting new buildings. He enlarged Werocata station; he enlarged Pareora, but he is best known for building Martindale Hall which was completed in 1880 at a cost of over £30,000. He employed an English architect Ebenezer Gregg to design the mansion and Adelaide architect Edward John Woods was the supervising architect. Although built in the Italianate style which was then so popular it had features to adapt it to the climate including air ventilation from the cooler eight roomed basement for the summer and wooden shutters on the windows. Some of the stone masons were bought out from English to build the ashlar and sandstone house. Stone came from the property or a quarry a few miles away. Behind the impressive staircase in the entrance hall are the upstairs servants quarters away from sight. The “public” rooms for entertaining included a grand billiard room, sitting room and dining room. Some claim the mansion was built to attract a wife and that could be so. Extravagant parties were held here. The grounds had a boating lake by damming part of the Wakefield River and the stables and coach house are almost as grand as the house itself. It received notoriety when used for Peter Weir’s 1972 film of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Although Edmund Bowman was extravagant his extravagance was surpassed by the next owner’s son. Droughts and interest rate rises in the 1880s saw Edmund Bowman sell Martindale Hall in 1892, followed by Werocata and Pareora in 1896. He retained Holm Hill estate near Manoora. Edmund named the house after Martindale in Cumbria near their father’s birthplace. The new owner from 1892 was William Tennant Mortlock who made his fortune with leaseholds and freehold lands on Eyre Peninsula covering 2,000 square miles. In 1894 a son named John Andrew Tennant Mortlock was born in Martindale Hall. He eventually inherited it but produced no heirs. Her preferred male company to female and his housekeeper only agreed to marry him when he had terminal cancer in 1949. During his life time he had donated to and established various agricultural and research foundations. His estate was recorded as over £1.1 million pounds which was an astronomical figure at that time. His wife continued his charitable activities and the bulk of his estate was divided between the Waite Institute and the Libraries Board of South Australia. Part of his estate funded the establishment of the Mortlock Library on North Tce. |
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