Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Cranbrook – Bellevue Hill – NSW (see full Cranbrook House post)

Image gallery guidance

  • Prefer images already curated for the full Cranbrook House post (mansion, Rotunda, gates, Beautiful Sydney interiors, vice-regal press).
  • If this stub holds unique scrapbook plates, move or cross-caption them on the full post; keep only a lead image here.
  • Do not use 26–28 Cranbrook Road terrace photos under this label.

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What stands today

Cranbrook House stands within Cranbrook School. Public access is school-controlled. For visiting claims and the full source list, use the primary post.

Sources & further reading

Related on this blog

Editor: prefer redirect/companion wording over a second full history.

Cranbrook – Bellevue Hill – NSW

Thin-stub companion · Points to the full Cranbrook House (Cranbrook School) post · Do not duplicate conflicting history

This live URL is a thin Bellevue Hill scrapbook label for Cranbrook. The full mansion narrative — Tooth 1859 sandstone house, Horbury Hunt 1873–75 works, NSW Governors’ residence 1901/02–1917, Samuel Hordern’s 1917 purchase, Cranbrook School from 22 July 1918 — already lives on the dedicated Cranbrook House post and in the publish-ready Cranbrook.html body. Use this page as a short redirect-style companion, not a second competing history.

At a glance

  • Subject: Cranbrook House (Cranbrook School campus), Bellevue Hill — not 26–28 Cranbrook Road (separate blog houses)
  • Full post (use as primary): Cranbrook House (Cranbrook School) – Victoria Road / New South Head Road – Bellevue Hill
  • Publish-ready body already on disk: Cranbrook.html
  • Fate: Standing inside Cranbrook School (Woollahra local heritage campus items)
  • This thin stub’s job: label correction, scrapbook photos if any, and a clear pointer — do not invent a parallel timeline

Site & setting

Bellevue Hill / Rose Bay harbour slope — Victoria Road ridge above New South Head Road. Full landscape, Hunt Rotunda, gates, and listed trees are covered in the primary post. Aboriginal Country: Gadigal / Cadigal.

Timeline

  • 1859 – House for Robert Tooth; later Robert Towns; James White + John Horbury Hunt extensions 1873–75.
  • 1901/02–1917 – NSW Governor’s residence (Rawson, Chelmsford, Strickland) while Domain Government House served the Governor-General.
  • 1917–1918 – Hordern purchase for Anglican school; Cranbrook School opens 22 July 1918.
  • Today – Working school campus; mansion adapted to school use.
  • Live thin stub (this URL) – Keep only as companion/redirect; merge any unique photo captions into the full post rather than rewriting history here.

Architecture & interiors

See the full Cranbrook House post / Cranbrook.html — sandstone Tooth house, Hunt-era porch and Rotunda (former tennis pavilion), school adaptive reuse. Do not paste a second fabric essay that could drift from the primary sources.

People & anecdotes

Tooth, Towns, White, Hunt, Governors Rawson / Chelmsford / Strickland, Samuel Hordern — all treated in the primary post. This companion adds no new cast.

Image gallery guidance

  • Prefer images already curated for the full Cranbrook House post (mansion, Rotunda, gates, Beautiful Sydney interiors, vice-regal press).
  • If this stub holds unique scrapbook plates, move or cross-caption them on the full post; keep only a lead image here.
  • Do not use 26–28 Cranbrook Road terrace photos under this label.

What stands today

Cranbrook House stands within Cranbrook School. Public access is school-controlled. For visiting claims and the full source list, use the primary post.

Sources & further reading

Related on this blog

Editor: prefer redirect/companion wording over a second full history.

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