Faith, Hope and Charity - first settlement on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Built for Charles and Michael Calnan and their mother, the houses were built out of stone and no bricks were used. The middle house was started in 1857 and each one took a year to build, with the help of a ship's carpenter. No expense was spared to make them comfortable. Each was of five rooms with a large garret room after the old English style, also panel doors, sash windows, etc, and in every room were cedar cupboards, and cedar wardrobes in the bedrooms, also large dressers built in every kitchen. Being the only houses of any size on Kangaroo Island at that time; and having eighteen rooms between them, there was always a spare one for travellers and many a social and musical evening was spent at ' Newtown.'
1921 newspaper article about the history of these three houses:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/191546832?searchTerm=f...
Faith, Hope and Charity - first settlement on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Built for Charles and Michael Calnan and their mother, the houses were built out of stone and no bricks were used. The middle house was started in 1857 and each one took a year to build, with the help of a ship's carpenter. No expense was spared to make them comfortable. Each was of five rooms with a large garret room after the old English style, also panel doors, sash windows, etc, and in every room were cedar cupboards, and cedar wardrobes in the bedrooms, also large dressers built in every kitchen. Being the only houses of any size on Kangaroo Island at that time; and having eighteen rooms between them, there was always a spare one for travellers and many a social and musical evening was spent at ' Newtown.'
1921 newspaper article about the history of these three houses:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/191546832?searchTerm=f...