Raywood, Aldgate
Raywood, formerly named Arbury Park, is a property in the
Background
The property is on Arbury Park Road, on the northern edge of
The area covered by the property was first settled in the 1850s. Plots were owned by several people, who variously planted
20th century
Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston (1863–1931), known for his discovery and cultivation of the claret ash tree,[4] bought a section of land in 1904, another in 1911, and further plots as they became available.[3] He established the gardens, and about 1925 established Ray Nursery (named in memory of his son, a casualty of World War I[3]) to encourage cultivation of native plants.[5]
The Wollaston property was bought by
Downer planned and laid out the garden, which included a series of terraces and flights of steps from the house down to a circular pool at the lower level. Claret ash,
In 1964 the new South Eastern Freeway route cut through the water meadow and deer park, and at this time the state government bought the property. After being transferred to the South Australian Education Department in 1965 to create the first Australian residential in-service teachers' training centre,[3] the property reverted to its former name, Raywood.[5][9] The Education Department built a dormitory-style accommodation building with 31 rooms to house the teachers.[10]
21st century
The members of an Australian
In 2008, the mansion sold for about A$4 million, the price reduced by a million since 2006. It was bought by Port Adelaide Football Club director Alex Panas, who said that although the Salerno family had done a wonderful job of restoring the mansion, which had been a "huge mess" when they bought it, he planned to work with heritage experts to ensure the grandeur of the property was restored.[10]
Heritage listing
The house was confirmed on the South Australian Heritage Register in 1989;[15] the garden, chapel, driveway and gates followed in 2000.[4]
The SA Heritage Register states: "Developed in two stages, the garden is significant as a 1930s private estate garden established within an earlier 20th century garden. Raywood is significant as the location for the first propagation of the
Footnotes
- Regal Theatre, Kensington Park.
References
- ^ "Raywood Gardens Aldgate SA 5154, Australia". Google Maps. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ "Cottage, Bridgewater". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g Oats, Sydney; South Australian Heritage. "The Mansion Adelaide Hills 1969". Flickr. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
Info Courtesy of South Australian Heritage.
Album - ^ a b c "Heritage details: Dwelling ('Raywood', previously 'Arbury Park') Garden, Chapel, Driveway and Gates". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 31 October 2021. Copyright in text copied from this source is owned by the Government of South Australia and made available under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
- ^ a b O'Neil, Bernard (1 January 1990). "Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
This article was published in the Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 12, 1990; online in 2006.
- The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 20, no. 1, 038. South Australia. 16 April 1932. p. 5 (Women's Section). Retrieved 31 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b "Architect Kenneth Milne". Federation Home. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Interesting Weddings". Sunday Times. Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 2 March 1919. p. 2. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-646-21194-7
- ^ a b c Emmerson, Russell (24 January 2008). "Old Downer mansion goes for $4m". The Advertiser. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Ideal Human Environment". Let's Talk About Sects.
- ^ Butler, Gavin (30 July 2019). "Leader of Adelaide Cult the 'Ideal Human Environment' Has Been Jailed for Sexual Abuse". VICE. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ Campbell, Claire (1 August 2019). "Inside James Salerno's cult and its quest to create the 'ideal human environment'". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ Campbell, Claire (28 October 2021). "'Cult' leader James Salerno found guilty, after retrial, of repeated sexual abuse of teenage girl". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Heritage details: Dwelling ('Raywood', previously 'Arbury Park')". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 31 October 2021.