Description

Historically important as an example of early brick building and as the childhood home of author Henry Handel Richardson. Built in 1870 and now restored, the red brick house is furnished in period style recreating a lakeside country villa residence in a prosperous mining town. In 1876 Lake View House was home to Ethel Florence Richardson (known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson), famous Australian writer and author of The Getting of Wisdom. Richardson immortalised the house and her early life in Chiltern, under the fictional name of Barambogie, in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony and fittingly Lake View also contains Richardson memorabilia. Open Wednesday 11am to 2pm, Saturday 10am to 1pm and Sunday 1pm to 4pm. Closed Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday.