HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST • HIDDEN CANBERRA • SATURDAY 27

							HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST • HIDDEN CANBERRA • SATURDAY 27 MARCH

8am
Depart Hyde Park Barracks bus stop
11.30 am
Arrive Canberra

DAY 1: the 19th Century Canberry village and the Duntroon connections

11.30 am to 4.30 pm
Duntroon dairy [11.30 to 12.30] • Duntroon woolshed [12.30 to 1.30] • catered lunch at
Commonwealth Place or the banks of the Lake Burley Griffin central Basin adjacent Blundell’s
Cottage [1.30 to 2.30 outside weather permitting] • [2.30 to 4.30] Mugga Mugga Symonston
[afternoon tea + guided tour by John Armes Assistant Director ACT Historic Places] • return to
University House [rest drinks + dinner]

This part of the tour will be centred around Duntroon, Mt Pleasant, Russell Hill and Mugga
Mugga. We will look at the 19th century tenant farms and outbuildings associated with
Duntroon Station, and the ‘Canberry’ village remnant buildings and tracks.




Duntroon Woolshed c1870, showing the woolshed, penning up shed, and manager’s cottage [below]
Duntroon homestead, RMC Duntroon, and Mount Pleasant 1912. The woolshed is highlighted and the
Duntroon dairy is to the east [right of photograph]. Source: NLA Canberra vn3887452-v & an24430963.




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Mugga Mugga cottage and kitchen. Source: ACT Historic Places.




DAY 2: the 20th Century Federal Capital and the modernists

8.30 am to 4.00 pm
Catered picnic lunch on the banks of the Central Basin

This part of the tour will be centred around the central national area, and inner Canberra,
and we will look at the early Federal capital buildings and the work of the Canberra
modernists. We will start in the Acton area, which was the site of the first Capital
administration. Then we will make visits to modernist buildings




Acton Homestead c1925, with Black Mountain beyond. The first Federal administration was located at Acton peninsula, and the
Acton Homestead [now demolished] acted as the first Police Station • Source: Picture Australia website NLA Canberra vn3918953-v •
Acton cottage no 3 c1925. PF sketch taken from contemporary photograph [below] Canberra High School 1940. Architect Cuthbert
Whitley for the Department of the Interior. Sam Hood photographic collection.




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Aerial view of the ANU campus, showing the Academy of Sciences, Canberra High School, and the Institute of Anatomy, 1960. Frank
Hurley photographic collection• Source: Picture Australia website NLA Canberra an23550378.

Then we will make visiti to the Moir and Sutherland houses of Forrest, Griffith and O’Connor;
the Institute of Anatomy Acton; and the Cuthbert Whitley buildings in Griffith, Forrest and
Barton. We will have internal access to the Kringas residence within the Manuka Fire Station
precinct.




The Forrest Fire Station precinct 1939, and • Source: Picture Australia website NLA Canberra an23491082.


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Catered picnic lunch, probably on the banks of the Central Basin [South] NGA gardens. Then
a tour of some of the modernist houses of Moir & Sutherland, Robin Boyd, and the emigre
architects. At 4pm departure for Sydney.




Moir and Sutherland houses in Melbourne Avenue Forrest, Arthur Circle Forrest, and
Wilmot Crescent Forrest



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