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The Rosary, St Mary's [B 14455] • Photograph

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Summary

The Rosary, Residence of B. H. Babbage. The Rosary', better knows as 'Babbages' Castle'. The building of this Grand Intalianate style mansion (see B 5196) started in 1876. It was one of the first Adelaide buildings to be constructed from local lime concrete but once completed rapidly began to collapse due to salt damp. Shortly after 1929 the land was subdivided to become Castle Estate and St Marys Park housing estates. Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878) engineer, scientist, explorer, geologist and a Member of the Lower House had keen powers of observation and an analytic mind. His achievements as an explorer were notable

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.6 cm x 15.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1900

Collection

Part of St Marys Collection

Subject

Rosary (House : St. Marys, S.A.)
Babbage's Castle (House : St. Marys, S.A.)
Architecture, Domestic -- South Australia -- St. Marys

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Digitisation information

Date

01/05/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,066 x 2,328 pixels (7.1 MP)

Size

21.45 MB

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