Historical information
The house in the photograph is the Gatehouse for Rupertswood Mansion. The building of Rupertswood mansion, along with the Lodge, the lake, gardens, grotto, stables and outbuildings, were completed in August 1874, seven months after William John Turner Clarke died at Essendon on 13th January 1874 so he never lived to see his grand mansion completed.
Significance
Rupertswood Mansion is one of a number of grand homes that wealthy European settlers built in various places in Australia in the nineteenth century.
Physical description
A non-digital coloured photograph of a bluestone two storey cottage with a hipped roof, set in an attractive garden comprising shrubs, trees and flower beds.
