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Rose Bank [House], Essendon, Melbourne

c1892. Three printout paper photographs, stereo card format, each annotated in ink verso, 7.8 x 13.8cm (approx. each). Slight foxing and discolouration, laid down on original backing.

Annotations include “Front door of Rose Bank, Essendon, Melbourne,” with the date “1892” above the entryway, and “Rose Bank drawing room.”

Rose Bank was built in 1845 for Thomas Napier, one of “the very few purchasers” of town land in Melbourne at the first land sale in the Port Phillip district in June 1837. The house still stands on Rosebank Avenue, Strathmore, Victoria and is now a St Vincent de Paul convent. Ref: Victorian Heritage Database; Camperdown Chronicle (Vic), 11.2.1881.

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Item #CL198-41

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