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epithet "castle". The interior was spacious and impressive, with polished oak and cedar panelling and marble inlays. The thirty rooms included a wide hall and a dining room with eight doors running on little wheels which fitted into recesses in the wall, and a panelled partition which folded back to make two large rooms into an immense one. The building, which dwarfed every other mansion in the colony, including
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mansion, and designed to be impressive. It was box-like of two storeys, the upper floor being of a smaller plan than the ground floor. It reputedly had thirty rooms, and was built of coursed local limestone. It had a wide west-facing veranda with a return to its north side. Rooms on the upper floor
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By the 20th century suburbia had encroached and the "Castle" was just an unmarketable curiosity off Braund Road, Prospect, and in the way of progress, and was demolished in
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Tenders were called on 22 August 1846 to build a ten feet (3.0 metres) high limestone wall around four acres of the property and three weeks later tenders were invited from various trades to build the mansion, followed by tenders for coachhouse, and stables. It is likely, but not certain, that the
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open balcony. The veranda was also enclosed by shutters. The flat roof, which was accessible from below and surrounded by a crenellated parapet, gave a panoramic view of the
Adelaide plains from the sea to the Adelaide Hills and beyond. Even the chimneys were crenellated, reinforcing the popular
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Thomas Price was an architect and surveyor from Wales, who briefly had a practice in
Melbourne, then from 1846 to 1852 in Adelaide. He may not have been notable as an architect, but was certainly prolific. He laid out some 17 townships, most now being residential suburbs east of Adelaide, and
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Richmond (died 23 June 1862), with his wife Maria née Urquhart (died 1 April 1845) arrived in South Australia aboard Ariadne August 1839, with their family: Mary Ann Richmond (1828–1920) later Gregorson then Duncan; Agnes Muir Richmond (1831–1924); John Richmond (c. 1836-1886); and Maria
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Malcolm "Fred" Graham (1856 – 8 May 1911) married Annabella Stewart "Anna" Butterworth (c. – 28 September 1894) on 16 February 1887. They purchased her father John Butterworth's property, Bungala House (which still stands) near
58:("Snobs") shares, which repaid him handsomely: soon he was S.A.M.A.'s largest shareholder, with £1,090 in £5 shares, roughly 9% of the original total shareholding of £12,320, having presumably purchased additional scrip from early
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Graham's stepfather John Adams remained at
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418:"Graham's Castle" had the reputation of being haunted by a sailor, supposedly an earlier owner of the property. It turned out rabbits were living under the floorboards, giving rise to occasional unexplained noises.
43:, England, and at age eighteen was apprenticed to an upholsterer in London. At his employer's urging and with £250 of his money to invest as well as £40 of his own, he emigrated to South Australia aboard
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who had the nearby, and comparatively worthless, "Princess Royal" mine. Originally, "snob" was a somewhat derogatory term for tradesman; discounting such persons for their calling was termed "snobbery".
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Dr. James Bathe (c. 1815–1885), a noted horse breeder, sold the property in 1870, returned to
Victoria. His son William Nicholas M. de Bathe (c. 1846 – 4 December 1868) was a member of
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Australian Mining Association were mostly affluent tradesmen and businessmen, not big investors "Nobs" from Adelaide's wealthy
47:, arriving in September 1839. He found work with an Adelaide ironmonger, but soon went into business on his own account and was quite successful.
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students boarded there, and his wife Mary Whinham died there in 1891.
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617:Note the other irons Price had in the fire.
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905:"To John Adams, Esq., of Prospect House"
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