Caroline Simpson Collection

The study at Ecclesbourne, Double Bay, Sydney / photographer unknown

[191?]

1 photoprint : sepia toned ; 15 x 19.5 cm.

Ecclesbourne (Double Bay, N.S.W.)
light fittings
desks
bookcases

Ecclesbourne at 17 Ocean Avenue, Double Bay, Sydney, was built in the 1840s by a businessman named Thomas Whistler Smith (1824-1859) on land that was then part of the Glenrock Estate, Darling Point. The property was later owned by his brother Eustace Smith (1825-1872) who sold Ecclesbourne in 1857 to Sydney solicitor James Norton (1824-1906). Norton made extensive alterations to the house in the 1870s. James Norton died at Ecclesbourne in 1906, his widow Harriott died there in 1910 and the house later became a private hotel and then a boarding house. It was purchased by the Cancer Patients Assistance Society of NSW in 1978 and until early 2010 was used to accommodate relatives and carers of cancer patients.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; copy of original photograph in private collection.

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