Not my pictures but worth a post – Invergowrie in Coppin Street Hawthorn is a fantastically charming picturesque Gothic Revival bluestone house, that’s also really very old. Started about 1845, when it had the whole of the bend of the river as it’s grounds, I think it was then just the little symmetrical thing in the sketch in last pic. Added to 1855 + 1869, when actor and entrepreneur #GeorgeCoppin bought it and subdivided the eponymous street. #JosephReedArchitect lived there in the 1870s, then it became various institutions in the 1930s, when the ‘cottage’ was built, also gothic, as well as a big hall out back. Been a private home again for a long time, recently bought by Stephen and Anjelica Tomisich, whose Trajan medical equipment company has done so well they could pay $40m for it- and are proposing to open it up in some way, which is nice.
South side 
The Cottage 
The Stables 
Storey of Melbourne 
My great great grandfather Joseph Ladd Mayes was the gardener at this property, employed by Sir James Palmer after Joseph first arrived in Australia in 1858. Sir James provided my great great grandfather with a reference on his application to the Victoria Police Force and he went on to have a small but significant role in the eventual capture of the Kelly Gang.
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