Oldest House In Australia
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, April 18.
Australia’s oldest houses Elizabeth Farm, at Granville near Sydney, is up for sale The house, built by the great wool pioneer, John Macarthur, in 1793, has been officially proclaimed a building of national historic importance and cannot be demolished or rebuilt The house is at present occupied by three spinster sisters, daughters of Mr William Swann, who bought it in 1904. They have decided to sell it because it is too big for them. Elizabeth Farm house, named after Macarthur’s wife, is a single-storey brick building, with 18 rooms set in two acres of land. »
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 12
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