Norman Lindsey House - Faulconbridge, NSW

At a glance

• Address: 14–20 Norman Lindsay Crescent, Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains (the Lindsays called it “Springwood”)
• Bought: late 1912 by Rose Soady (later Rose Lindsay): a sandstone cottage on about 42 acres of bush
• Home of: artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969), who lived and worked there for nearly 60 years; the garden statuary and the oil studio date from his time
• Now: Norman Lindsay Gallery, owned by the National Trust (NSW). Under Lindsay’s 1969 bequest the Trust bought the property after a 1970 public appeal; it opened on 24 February 1973
• Heritage: NSW State Heritage Register no. 01503 (listed 1 March 2002)
• [Note: the post title spells the name “Lindsey”; the artist’s name is Lindsay.]

Norman Lindsey House

Sources

• NSW State Heritage Inventory – Norman Lindsay Gallery
• National Trust (NSW) – Celebrating the Lindsay legacy