Ord River Station Homestead (fmr)

Statement of Significance

It has worthy architectural and historical significance – suggested as an ideal centre for a Historical Museum of cattle country.

Physical Description

An old stone homestead “in a remarkably high state of preservation”. Nearby is a small graveyard in which lie some of the best known characters of their generation – Tudor, Shadforth, speared by blacks (sic) in 1890 to Norman Welman who dies in retirement in the last decade. Every grave in that little enclosure is someone whose memory deserves perpetuating. (Tom Ronan in “Walkabout” June 1968). The homestead is a fine example of the response to the environment. Built of local stone and whitewashed. The walls are shaded by wide verandahs which are supported by rough “bush poles”. The whole is covered by a canopy of corrugated iron, so appropriate for the district, since it is easily transported and will last a century and forms a large insulating volume of air.

History

Assessment 1973

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