'Bronte' Waverley
Notes: Bronte House was originally designed by the Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis, who set it on the edge of what is now known as Bronte Gully. Construction began circa 1838, but Lewis sold the house in 1843, when it was still incomplete, to the barrister Robert Lowe (later to be known as Viscount Sherbrooke). Lowe completed the construction of the house and its gardens and named it after Lord Nelson, who was known as the Duke of Bronte (a town in Sicily).
The house has been described as a "magnificent, mid-Victorian mansion". It is a sandstone, one-storey bungalow with verandahs on the west and east sides. It features a service wing that extends to the south, plus two octagonal rooms with cone-shaped roofs.
Format: albumen photo print, 265mm x 208mm
Date Range: Watkin & Watkin auction catalogue, 1882; The Bronte Estate, Waverley, Sydney
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: the McBroom Album
Links: www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/68552...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronte_House
'Bronte' Waverley
Notes: Bronte House was originally designed by the Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis, who set it on the edge of what is now known as Bronte Gully. Construction began circa 1838, but Lewis sold the house in 1843, when it was still incomplete, to the barrister Robert Lowe (later to be known as Viscount Sherbrooke). Lowe completed the construction of the house and its gardens and named it after Lord Nelson, who was known as the Duke of Bronte (a town in Sicily).
The house has been described as a "magnificent, mid-Victorian mansion". It is a sandstone, one-storey bungalow with verandahs on the west and east sides. It features a service wing that extends to the south, plus two octagonal rooms with cone-shaped roofs.
Format: albumen photo print, 265mm x 208mm
Date Range: Watkin & Watkin auction catalogue, 1882; The Bronte Estate, Waverley, Sydney
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: the McBroom Album
Links: www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/68552...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronte_House