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Audit House

Audit House was built for the Commonwealth Auditor in 1938. The residence is one of a number built in this part of Darwin for high-ranking public servants in the 1930s.

Burnett House

This is the only surviving example of B.C.G. Burnett’s Type ‘K’ and was unusual in being of two-storey configuration.

Unshackled: Hobart Penitentiary

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Unshackled at the Hobart Penitentiary offers four experiences for one ticket price: · Convict Memorial: a digital history experience allowing visitors to trace the lives of each of the 75,000 convicts transported to Tasmania 1803-1853 · Pandemonium: a dynamic widescreen presentation of Tasmania’s convict years 1803-1853, shown in

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Clarendon Estate

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Clarendon is one of Australia's most imposing and romantic pastoral homesteads.

Franklin House

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The birthplace of the National Trust in Tasmania.

Runnymede

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A largely intact 19th century whaling family’s home named after Capt. Charles Bayley’s favourite ship, Runnymede.

Latrobe Courthouse Museum

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Discover the many stories of Latrobe.

A Georgian sandstone home in dappled sunlight underneath large oak trees Featuring a white picket fence and sunburst transom window

Oak Lodge

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Oak Lodge, the only historic home open to the public in Richmond, a historic Georgian sandstone house in it's original condition.

Hope Cottage

Hope Cottage one of three cottages built around 1857 by brothers Charles and Michael Calnan.

Tuggeranong Schoolhouse

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Popular Canberra storyteller, Elizabeth Burness, trading as ‘History With A Difference’, brings stories of Canberra’s pioneering past alive. Note: Elizabeth Burness is retiring after twelve years operating the Tuggeranong Schoolhouse as a museum. Elizabeth’s collection will still furnish the museum for the open days on Sunday 10 September 2023 and Sunday 8

Como House and Garden

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Known by many Melburnians as ‘the white house on the hill,’ Como overlooks the Birrurung (Yarra) river and is surrounded by a pleasure garden and community parkland. Leila Armytage called her home ‘the last remaining oasis.’ Como is an atmospheric town mansion presented as a family home. The interiors reflect

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St John’s Schoolhouse Museum

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Constructed of locally quarried bluestone, with a shingle roof, the building consists of the schoolroom and five rooms for the school teacher’s residence. The School closed in 1907. The residence was occupied by local families until the 1930’s, when it was used by church and community groups as a meeting

Retford Park

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A Southern Highlands must-see with beautiful gardens surrounding a Victorian Italianate homestead.

The Heights

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Prefabricated in Hamburg, Germany, the Heights was erected in 1854 and is the largest dwelling of its kind in Victoria.

Tasma Terrace

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The headquarters of the National Trust (Victoria)

Rippon Lea Estate

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Rippon Lea is a National Heritage Listed heritage site and one of the last surviving examples of a grand estates.

Federal Standard Printing Works

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One of the few substantially intact provincial newspaper printeries remaining from the gold mining era.

Woodford Academy

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A former inn and boarding school in the Blue Mountains with an intriguing past.

Vienna Cottage

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Step inside a rare, intact tradesman’s cottage in the lovely harbourside suburb of Hunter’s Hill.

Tomago House

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Established in the 1840s, this country residence with its fine verandahs and cool cellars was once the heart of a vast agricultural estate.

Sir Henry Parkes Memorial School of Arts

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A museum devoted to Sir Henry Parkes and his dream of an independent Australian nation.

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