Tired of playing solitaire and going to check out a few open houses. Not the ones in the Sunday paper – oh no these are all Edwardian manses pictured in “Our beautiful homes, New South Wales Australia Series 1.” (the last one being from Series 2). Published ca. 1905.

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Gawd all mighty even when you’ve seen a lot of these it’s amazing how many gew gaws Victorian and Edwardian people could fit into one room.

Front cover of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. Image 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/mode/1up
‘Swifts.’ (Hall) – Darling Point, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of EDMUND RESCH, Esquire. Image 8 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n8/mode/1up
‘Swifts.’ (Hall) – Darling Point, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of EDMUND RESCH, Esquire. Image 7 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n7/mode/1up
‘Linnwood.’ (Hall) – Guildford, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of Mrs. G. McCREDIE. Image 20 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n20/mode/1up

‘Edgmond’ – Wahroonga, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of William Cooper, Esquire. Image 22 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n22/mode/1up
‘Burdekin House (Drawing Room) MacQuarie Street Sydney N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of Mrs. S. Burdekin. Image 22 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n44/mode/1up
“Ultimo House’ (Drawing Room) – Ultimo N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of Mrs. George Harris. Image 64 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n64/mode/1up
‘Casserton’ – Gordon New South Wales – Resident of John M. Ferguson, Esquire. Image 78 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 2. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/OBHomes32449/page/n78/mode/1up

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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