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The Swifts is a heritage-listed late-Victorian castellated Gothic Revival mansion located in the suburb of Darling Point, Sydney. Swifts is a rare survivor of a group of similar grand private residences sited on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. It is described by the Australian Heritage Council as “perhaps the grandest house remaining in Sydney”. Swifts was listed on the … Read More

HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE The Callan Park Hospital for the Insane (1878 – 1914) is a heritage-listed former insane asylum and now college campus located in the grounds of Callan Park, an area on the shores of Iron Cove in Lilyfield, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 1873 the Colonial Government of New South Wales purchased the … Read More

Eryldene, Gordon Erydene was the home of the late Professor E.G. Waterhouse C.M.G, & Mrs Waterhouse The house was designed by architect William Hardy Wilson & built in 1913. The Garden was designed by Professor Waterhouse inaugural president of the international camellia society. Eryldene was designed by William Hardy Wilson, Australia’s leading advocate of the Old Colonial Georgian Revival movement, … Read More