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Newstead House is Brisbane's oldest surviving residence and is located on the Breakfast Creek bank of the Brisbane River, in the northern Brisbane suburb of Newstead, in Queensland, Australia.〔Trent Dalton, "Grand residence", ''Brisbane News'', 20 November 2002, p 16, Nationwide News Pty Limited via factiva accessed 7 September 2011.〕 Built as a small cottage in the Colonial-Georgian style in 1846, the cottage was extended and today is painted and furnished in a late Victorian style.〔 Newstead House is the oldest surviving home in Brisbane, but not the oldest surviving building, built in 1846, for Patrick Leslie and his wife Catherine (née McArthur).〔New South Wales fdRegistrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages〕 In 1847 he sold Newstead House to his brother-in-law (married to Anna McArthur),〔 the Police Magistrate and Government Resident. ==History== Newstead House is said to have taken its name from Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England, a former Augustinian priory which became the Byron family home.〔"Newstead Abbey" in Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins (eds), ''The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland'' (Oxford University Press, 2009) via Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press accessed 7 September 2011.〕 The property was referred to as Newstead until it left the possession of J.C. Wickham in 1859 after which it became known as Newstead House.〔A. G. Davies, "Significance of 'Newstead', oldest residence in Brisbane", (1940) ''The Historical Society of Queensland Journal'' Vol. 3 no. 2, pp 57-66, , Brisbane, Queensland.〕 Newstead house was built as a residence by Brisbane's first architect and builder Andrew Petrie for fellow Scottish settler Patrick Leslie; it was soon acquired by Captain John Wickham. Then it was leased to Attorney-General Ratcliffe Pring. It was later leased, then sold, then leased again to merchant and Member of the Queensland Legislative Council George Harris. George Harris and his wife Jane (née Thorn) lived in the house for 27 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newsteadhouse.com.au/history/history.htm )〕 The Lysaght Brothers bought the property in March 1898 with the intention to demolish the house and build a factory that produced iron and rabbit-proof wire fencing. These plans to establish a factory at the property were abandoned due to the downturn in the agricultural sector.〔 It was purchased by the Brisbane City Council in 1918 and was the residence of the superintendent of their council parks. The Council leased part of the property to the Historical Society of Queensland in 1934 and it was used to store historical records. In 1939, the Queensland Parliament created a Trust〔(Queensland Parliament legislation )〕 and ownership was transferred to the Newstead House Trust. The building was occupied by American troops during World War II. There is an Australian–American War Memorial in the grounds in memory of this. It was dedicated on 3 May 1952 by the Queensland Governor, Sir John Lavarack.〔(Australian American War memorial, Newstead Park ). Your Brisbane: Past and Present. Retrieved 16 March 2013.〕 〔(Australian-American War Memorial ). Retrieved 5 April 2014〕 Other than the war-time occupation it was operated as a museum and research library by the Historical Society of Queensland (now known as the Royal Historical Society of Queensland) until 1973 when they moved to the Commissariat Store.〔〔 Newstead House is now a museum. It is open to the public, and concerts are sometimes held at the house and grounds. Newstead House is now maintained by the Newstead House Board of Trustees assisted the Friends of Newstead, a volunteer group who also organise various events to attract visitors.〔 Newstead Park is still managed and maintained by the Brisbane City Council. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newstead House, Brisbane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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