Cooma Cottage
Australia
Cooma Cottage is a heritage-listed former farm and tuberculosis sanatorium and now house museum and historic site in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales in Australia. It is located on Yass Valley Way at Marchmont and was built from 1830 to 1837 by Cornelius and Rebecca O'Brien. It is a
lso known as Hamilton Hume's House, Humedale Stud, and New Nordrach Institute for Consumption. The property is owned by the National Trust of Australia (NSW). It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 1 March 2002. It is one of the oldest surviving rural houses in Yass, New South Wales. It has historic significance as a relatively intact complex of rural buildings. It has a variety of significant natural and built elements, including an example of an early tree called the Picconia, a relative of the olive and rare in Australia, which is almost extinct in its native Canary Islands. Cooma Cottage stands as evidence of what the first settlers built for themselves, their families and servants. The handmade bricks and crafted woodwork are the result of local skills and manufacturing. The cottage grew from a bungalow through a series of additions over the 19th century. The...
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