Museum
Newstead House
Colonial-Georgian riverside mansion turned house museum, built by Brisbane's earliest settlers and later remade into a stage for colonial high society.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Newstead House in Brisbane centers on George and Jane Harris, who turned Brisbane's oldest surviving home into the grandest address in the colony during the eighteen sixties and seventies. It follows the architect they hired to remake the house for entertaining, and the toll that hosting took on the family's fortunes. You'll hear about a wedding held on these grounds in eighteen eighty-three, and what it meant to the Harrises by then. Look toward the verandah, where colonial Brisbane once arrived by the carriage-load.
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