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Photograph (Item) - Black and white photograph, John William Lindt, 1890-1910

  • Shows "The Hermitage" at Narbethong in Victoria. Shows a group of weatherboard buildings set amidst extensive gardens. In the left of the photograph there is also a wooden bridge that leads to a small turreted building. At the rear of the main building is another turret. There is a man, woman and a dog walking along a path through the garden. In the background is forest and there are mountains in the distance.

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Historical information

A digital copy of an early black and white photograph taken of "The Hermitage" in Narbethong in Victoria.

Significance

A digital copy of an early black and white photograph taken of "The Hermitage" in Narbethong in Victoria.
"The Hermitage" was built by photographer John William Lindt as a home and guesthouse in 1894. John Lindt had previously photographed the mountain scenery of the Black Spur and purchased 71 acres and subseqently built his home and guesthouse from where he continued his career. "The Hermitage had a garden designed by John Lindt's friend, Ferdinand von Mueller, who was at one stage the Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. The garden featured New Guinea tree houses from which John Lindt made frequent panoramas of his property and the surrounding forest of towering mountain ash. Aged 81 Lindt died of heart failure during disastrous bushfires on 19 February 1926 at the Hermitage. He was survived by his wife Catherine who continued to run ‘The Hermitage’ guest house before she retired to the city.

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