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There were two houses called Woollahra House built on the same site in Point Piper, Sydney, Australia. The first was built in 1856 by Sir Daniel Cooper (picture shown below) and the second by his son William Charles Cooper in 1883 (picture on the right). Both houses have been demolished, but two buildings still remain from the original structure. The gatekeeper's lodge from Sir Daniel Cooper's house, which was built in 1871, is now the Rose Bay Police Station, and the stables (picture at bottom) which are now Wyuna Court, a prestigious block of apartments. These buildings in the Municipality of Woollahra are of some historical interest. ==Sir Daniel Cooper== Daniel Cooper was born in 1821 in Lancashire, England. He was the second son of Thomas Cooper, a merchant and came to Australia as a child with his parents. He returned to England at the age of 14 to complete his education but came back to Australia in 1843 and became a commercial partner with James Holt. He later became a member of Parliament and was elected as Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.〔Martin, A. W., "Cooper, Sir Daniel (1821–1902)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol 3, Melbourne University Press, 1969, p. 452〕 In 1846 he married Elizabeth Hill, who was the third daughter of William Hill Esq of Sydney. The couple had two sons and five daughters over the next thirteen years while they lived in Sydney.〔Burke, Sir Gernard, 1891, "Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry", E. A. Petherick and Co., p. 54〕 In 1856 Cooper started building Woollahra House, and to mark the occasion he held a very large ceremony to lay the foundation stone, at which 400 guests were present.〔Sydney Morning Herald, 15 December 1856, p. 5.〕 While the house was being built, the Coopers lived in the nearby residence called Rose Bay Lodge, which Daniel owned at that time. It is not certain when exactly the Cooper family moved into Woollahra House, but it was before 1860 as there is a birth notice for a son born at Rose Bay Lodge in July 1860 to the wife of Walter Lamb, who were known to be renting the Lodge at about this time.〔Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 1860, p. 10〕 The top photo on the right shows the house that Cooper built. The lower photo is the larger house built by his son in 1883. In both photos the out buildings in the foreground are the same but the houses in the background are different, showing that two separate houses called Woollahra House were actually built. Cooper did not live at Woollahra House for long as in 1861 he sailed to England with his family and did not return.〔Martin, A. W., p. 452.〕 He did, however, retain ownership of the property for the next 22 years while he lived in England. Anthony Trollope in 1873 during his visit to Australia made some observations about the original house as follows; :"Woollahra is a magnificent property covered with villa and gardens, all looking down to the sea. In England it would be worth half a million of money." 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「Woollahra House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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