Old Government Cottage Museum and Colonial Garden
Bathurst
About Old Government Cottage Museum and Colonial Garden
The building known as Old Government Cottage is a rare, intact example of an early Bathurst home. This historic building is located at 16 Stanley Street on the western side of the Macquarie River in the area of the old Government settlement. The building was reopened after its recent repair and refurbishment in July 2012. This was the first major work on the building since the mid-1960s. Bathurst is a historic city, and it is imperative that historic buildings be saved such as this building. Old Government Cottage was opened as a museum in 1965 by Sir Eric Woodward, Governor of NSW, as part of Bathurst's sesquicentennial celebration. It was believed at the time that the cottage had been built in 1817 as the residence of the Commandant of the Bathurst Settlement, established in 1815 by G ...
Old Government Cottage Museum and Colonial Garden
Bathurst, New South Wales
16 Stanley Street, Bathurst, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 2795
The building known as Old Government Cottage is a rare, intact example, of an early Bathurst home.
Old Government Cottage Museum and Colonial Garden
16 Stanley Street, Bathurst, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 2795
info@bathursthistory.org.au
6332 2522-
https://www.bathursthistory.org.au/
