Government House, Western Australia
Jacobean Revival vice-regal mansion built by convict labour on a British-funded budget.
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This guide to Government House in Perth traces how a colony teetering near bankruptcy lobbied London to be declared a penal settlement, chasing British money as much as convict labour. You will meet Edmund Henderson, the man who ran the colony's convict system and then designed the governor's own mansion, and follow the building from its eighteen fifty-nine foundation stone to Governor Hampton moving into an unfinished house four years later. Best heard standing on the lawn, facing the residence itself.
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