After ticking off quite a few historic houses in Sydney, it was time to tackle Brisbane. I feel like I was a totally different person when I last lived here in 2013 as I didn’t have as much interest in exploring them then. Now, however, I have a list! First up is historic Ormiston House — the birthplace of the Australian commercial sugar industry. Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bay House
As one of NSW’s most sophisticated and elegant houses of the 1830s, Elizabeth Bay House has been on my Sydney bucket list for far too long, and so with an overcast Sunday afternoon to burn, I finally crossed it off. Continue reading
Carisbrook Historic House
Located in Lane Cove, Carisbrooke House is a historic museum of life in the 1880s and is the only house museum in Sydney to capture the flavour of the Victorian middle-class lifestyle.