Showing posts with label Norman Lindsey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norman Lindsey. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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.]


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