Lake View House

Lake View House is the childhood home of Henry Handel Richardson, pseudonym of ‘The Getting of Wisdom’ author’s Ethel Florence Richardson, who immortalised her experiences in Chiltern in her popular ‘The Fortunes of Richard Mahony’ trilogy. This charming red-brick house is furnished in period style, recreating a romantic lakeside country villa residence in a prosperous…

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Dow’s Pharmacy

Built in 1859 in Chiltern and bought by Hilda and Roy Dow in 1930, the unique Dow’s Pharmacy stands as a fascinating time capsule complete with over 4,000 original items in its collection from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The pharmacy closed its doors in 1968 with much of its content still intact. It…

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The Federal Standard Printing Works

Established in 1859, the Federal Standard Printing Works is one of the few substantially intact provincial newspaper printeries remaining from the gold mining era. The first proprietors were Felix Ashworth, George Boyer, and George H Mott. Within two years the Federal Standard had incorporated Rutherglen’s first newspaper, The Murray Gazette, Albury’s first newspaper, The Border…

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