Braeside was built 1888-9 at 50 (now 10-12) Stirling Street for Lionel Holdsworth, shipowner, convict, merchant. 'It was a large single-storey house of limestone with thick walls and a verandah right round all four sides ... set in an acre of land ... with an extensive and very attractive garden'. (Seddon 2000: 78)
The 1898 photo above is from the Local History Collection, no. 1459A. The Library's caption follows:
Braeside was built by Lionel Holdsworth. Donald MacDonald MacKay and his wife Emily Charlotte moved in at the end of 1893. Emily Charlotte, Alexander (b 1894), Samuel Angus (b1895), Mrs Vincent and Flora Catherine (b 1898) are on the verandah. The tree on the right is a fig.
The photograph, c. 1920, below is 1459B in the Library's catalog, and shows Braeside gardens.
Library:
Braeside was built by Lionel Holdsworth. Donald MacDonald MacKay and his family moved in at the end of 1893. His daughter, Flora Catherine, lived there until 1959 when it was sold as a nursing home. It was later demolished.
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