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Pool 27 Mongarlowe Bunn Street Toilets School 4 39 5 Robinson Lane Police Wilson Street 26 Wilson Street 40 25 Ryrie 3 6 Hospital Bowls Park Golf 23 24 Squash 7 Park Lane Malone St Park Lane School 8 Licenced 22 Club 99 35 Victory Street Royds Ln 42 21 51 53 37 01. The Braidwood Museum 28. The Braidwood Hotel Coronation Ave Duncan Street 52 02. Wooden Cottages 29. The Old Post Office 41 34 43 36 20 54 19 03. The Doncaster Inn 30. The Fine Granite Albert Explore more of

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05. The former Anglican r the Treasure Trail Walking track c 50 Rectory 32. The Police Paddock u Garvey Street i t 16 15 12 11 06. Maria Badgery’s House 33. The Braidwood Dispatch Newspaper Lascelles Street Stroll amongst the galleries, antique and gift shops 07. Braidwood’s Masonic Hall 34. Tidmarsh Flood Creek 45 14 in Bungendore. Enjoy some hearty country fare for lunch, Ambulance 08. St Andrew’s Anglican To Batemans Bay then pick up some goodies at the local produce markets. Church 35. The Old Bakery Sip on cool-climate wines and dine amongst the vines 09. The Doctor’s House 36. The Corner Hotel at nearby wineries. 38 Keder St Monkittee Street 10. 1850s houses 37. Elisville Bombay Experience a perfect blend of old and new with a visit to 11. The Old Maternity 38. James Larmer Building Oval Hospital Recreation Ground the dynamic and fast-growing city of Queanbeyan. Go on a

39. Gentlemen’s House Clyde St 12. Undertaker’s Cottage Coghill Street Coghill St self-guided walking tour of fascinating historical buildings, 40. The Schoolteacher’s House Archer Bridge 13. Bedervale enjoy captivating concerts and performances and traverse 41. 1880s brick home BRAIDWOOD HERITAGE WALK HERITAGE BRAIDWOOD Tennis the breathtaking nature reserves and picture-perfect parks. 14. The Digger’s Rest Hotel 42. The Nest Discover the countless cultural attractions, lively events and Wallace Street Bowler 4747 15. St Bede’s Catholic Church Street 43. The Old Power Station Araluven St natural hideaways the region has to offer. 16. The Criterion Hotel 44. The Poundkeeper’s Cottage Lawn 17. The National Theatre Mt Gillamatong Cemetery 45. The Lascelles St Worker’s #FOUNDMYTREASURE 18. The Commercial Banking Cottages Cowper Street Company 48 46 46. 1850s freestone building 19. The Royal Café Cemetery 47. The Britannia Brewery Araluen Road 20. The Albion Hotel site Araluen 21. The Granite Store 48. Braidwood Cemetery To Bedervale Majors Creek 13 Reidsdale Badgery St 22. The Royal Hotel 49. The Joint Stock Bank 23. The Literary Institute 50. Worker’s Cottages Coffey St 0 100 200 300 400 500 24. Ryrie Park 51. The Villa Nomchong St 25. The Post & Telegraph 52. Hibernian Bicycle Racing METRES

Office Track Elrington Street 26. The Courthouse 53. The Wesleyan Church N 27. The Police Residences 54. St Andrew’s Uniting Church BRAIDWOOD’S MASONIC HALL THE GRANITE STORE THE PIG & WHISTLE HOTEL THE BRITANNIA BREWERY SITE 31 47 7 51 ELRINGTON ST 21 CNR OF DUNCAN & WALLACE 214-216 WALLACE ST 17 MONKITTEE ST

The Masonic Hall is one of the earliest This beautiful granite store on the corner The Railway Hotel, formally known as Once boasting a fine two storied stone lodges in NSW. The residence was built for of Duncan & Wallace Streets was built the Pig & Whistle Hotel, stood on this brewery and stone residence. 19th century cabinet maker Roderick McDonald, who in 1870. Over the years it was a produce site from the 1850s in anticipation of a floods damaged the brewery building, also kept a showroom at this address. The store, butchers and saddlers. The top railway service to Braidwood which never allegedly leaving the brewer stranded on facade has been altered several times to floor veranda was added in the 1890s. eventuated. his roof. reflect different uses. The present facade The workmanship of stonemason Terence was completed in 1907. McGrath is evident in the architectural THE POLICE PADDOCK BRAIDWOOD CEMETERY 32 detail. NORTHERN END OF WALLACE ST 48 COWPER ST ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 8 ST BEDE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 47 ELRINGTON ST 15 THE COURTHOUSE JAMES LARMER BUILDING 83 WALLACE ST 26 This was the site of the first Police 38 Dating from the earliest days of the 170 WALLACE ST Barracks, a wooden two storied structure 42 WALLACE ST settlement, the cemetery was originally THE BRAIDWOOD MUSEUM One of Braidwood’s finest buildings, 1 Built of local granite between 1858 and with stables below and a bunkhouse divided into three sections: Presbyterian, 186 WALLACE ST the church is built of local granite and 1862, St Bede’s Catholic Church was Built in 1900 on the site of the original above. The lines of the foundations are This fine stone building belonged to James Anglican and Roman Catholic. The dividing features some of the first gargoyles used largely funded by the diggers working on Courthouse of 1837. This site saw the still visible on the rise towards Wilson’s Larmer and was most likely built as an Inn, fences were removed around 1940. in ecclesiastical buildings in NSW. The Built of local granite as the Royal Hotel the Araluen goldfields. Originally shingled earliest development in Braidwood, the Hill. The Braidwood Gaol, from which local although by the late 1850s it was divided Many important residents and pioneers tower, completed in the 1890s, affords for the town’s Surveyor, James Larmer, with wood, the roof was replaced with fine Courthouse being considered essential bushranger Thomas Clarke made a daring into two residences. were buried here and their gravestones a fine view of the town and several early in 1845, this grand building was purchased slate in the late 19th century. for the implementation of law and order escape, stood slightly to the north of the provide much detail about the period. by the Oddfellows Friendly Society in photographic records of Braidwood were in the remote Braidwood district, the existing Colonial Motel. The memorial for the Special Constables taken from it. Inside, magnificent stained 39 GENTLEMEN’S HOUSE 1882. The Braidwood Historical Society southernmost mainland settlement in 60 WILSON ST murdered by the infamous Bushrangers, acquired the building in 1970 and glass windows and elaborate plaques Australia at the time. THE BRAIDWOOD DISPATCH NEWSPAPER the Clarke Brothers, is in the former established the Braidwood Museum, commemorate pioneer families, and the 33 187 WALLACE ST A prosperous gentlemen’s house of the early Catholic section above the creek. custodian to a fine collection of fine pipe organ has been restored. THE ROYAL HOTEL 22 THE POLICE RESIDENCES 1880s, this house reflects the quality of the historical artefacts and memorabilia. 145 WALLACE ST 27 172-4 WALLACE ST Originally a two storied brick building late gold rush dwellings of Braidwood. It Built in 1890 on the site of the earlier with an elaborate glass street front. It has is built on part of the 1850s site of Patrick WOODEN COTTAGES 2 “Royal Hotel” dating from the 1850s. The Built in 1864 to replace the early wooden suffered major alterations but escaped Goulding’s “Wallis’s Auction Rooms”. 5 & 7 PARK LANE original name was changed in 1969 for the building in the Police Paddock, and complete demolition. The newspaper was the temporary Barracks at “Tidmarsh”. published for over 100 years. filming of the movie “Ned Kelly” with Mick 40 THE SCHOOLTEACHER’S HOUSE Typical wooden cottages of the 1850s Jagger. Heightened police activity in the district 47 WILSON ST and 1860s. Number 5 was the home during the gold rush of the 1850s and of Mary, wife of Jack Musgrave. Three 1860s followed a spate of bushranger THE CRITERION HOTEL A wooden two storied home dating to the generations of the Musgrave family owned 16 attacks and violent protests on the nearby 56 WALLACE ST 1870s and featuring the romantic styling THE JOINT STOCK BANK and edited the local newspaper, and Jack goldfields, and the repeal of the Police 49 of that decade with elaborate fretted 185 WALLACE ST was the last of these. Act of 1859 brought many new and senior 9 THE DOCTOR’S HOUSE Built in 1870, the Criterion Hotel was bargeboards and steeply pitched gables. 38 ELRINGTON ST Officers to Braidwood. familiarly known as Torpy’s Hotel. One Built around 1855, the Joint Stock Bank feature was the long stool on the Wallace 1880S BRICK HOME was Braidwood’s first bank. It also has Contemporary to the Anglican Church 41 Street footpath on which patrons sat to 1 CORONATION ST a place in the town’s civic history as opposite, and was built by the talented watch the passing scene. the offices of the Braidwood Municipal stonemason, Terence McGrath. McGrath This brick home at 1 Coronation Street Council until 1936, when the Council left many fine buildings to his credit, and merged with the Tallaganda Shire Council. even more descendants. was built on land originally reserved for TIDMARSH 34 use by the Church and School Corporation, THE LITERARY INSTITUTE 50 RYRIE ST in about 1880. Subdivisions of the mid- WORKERS' COTTAGES 1850S HOUSES 50 10 23 144 WALLACE ST 20th century reduced the farmland around 52 MONKITTEE ST 35, 33 & 31 ELRINGTON ST Completed as an Inn after 1856 by it and Coronation Street was laid out in Completed in 1869, with additions made Braidwood’s first Clerk of Court and the 1950s. Situated in Monkittee Street, a charming The houses on Elrington St all date to in 1891, the Literary Institute is one of licensee of the Doncaster Inn, Patrick and intact pair of 1860s cottages which the 1850s and have been restored with Braidwood’s most significant public Goulding. The Inn was later rented as a THE NEST have survived in nearly original condition. help from the NSW Heritage Office. Of 42 buildings. It provided the community with THE BRAIDWOOD HOTEL Police Barracks by police superintendent 58 DUNCAN ST THE DONCASTER INN particular note is the flat iron roof on 28 John Orridge in 1862. Subsequent owners 3 a library and the impressive upstairs hall 180 WALLACE ST THE VILLA 1 PARK LANE No. 35 and the decorative brick pattern THE NATIONAL THEATRE were Rowland Hassall, James Malone and 51 17 was the venue for many balls and dances. Situated in Duncan Street this wooden on No. 33. From No. 31, the Backhouse 100 WALLACE ST a series of doctors and dentists. A major 80 DUNCAN ST The building also housed a billiards room, Built in 1859, the hotel is the oldest in cottage of the 1870s is typical of many family ran horse teams, and later a restoration was completed in 2004, and The first grand hotel built in Braidwood residence at rear, art exhibitions, as well Braidwood still licensed. One of the built following the gold rush. This and trucking business, bringing supplies The National Theatre was first built as the facade, including the shingle roof, now A fashionable two storied brick home in about 1840. It was the centre of the as the Tallaganda Shire Council between grandest hotels in the Southern Districts of others like it often had an adjoining up the Clyde from Nelligen. The large a roller skating rink and Electric Picture appears exactly as it did in 1862. of the 1850s, originally owned by Samuel town’s social life for many decades. In 1958 and 2004. its era, the building features a magnificent sheds at the rear date from the horse Palace. Now the Community Centre and paddock or market garden in which the Walker. The striped curved tin awning is the 1880s it was converted to a convent ballroom with accommodation rooms team days. No. 35 was a gunsmith’s shop. Visitor Information Centre, the building resident would produce much of his own visible in an 1859 drawing of the home. school for the Good Samaritan Nuns, above. The ground floor and cellars house THE OLD BAKERY hosts the annual Quilt Event, and provides 35 food. It has been carefully restored by The central hinged upstairs window is and then demolished and rebuilt in public rooms and bars. 123 WALLACE ST a venue for dances, movies and art shows. descendants of the original owner. an unusual detail. 1907 using the same materials. It was 11 THE OLD MATERNITY HOSPITAL re-established as a hotel in 1980. 25 ELRINGTON ST THE OLD POST OFFICE Now a popular café, the old bakery THE OLD POWER STATION THE COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY 29 supplied bread to Braidwood residents for 43 HIBERNIAN BICYCLE RACING TRACK 18 200 WALLACE ST 91-83 DUNCAN ST 52 EASTERN END OF DUNCAN ST THE SNOW LION This hospital was operated in the 1860s 104 WALLACE ST nearly 80 years from the 1850s. The early 4 by Anne Gardiner, sister of notorious bread ovens still remain intact inside. 58 WILSON ST Dating to the 1840s, the building housed bushrangers known as the Clarke Brothers. Built in 1888 by Commercial Banking Situated in Duncan Street, the station was At the eastern end of Duncan Street the Braidwood’s first Postmaster and Company of Sydney as a bank, bank built as a brick stable for the adjoining track is still visible as a depression in Built at the end of the 19th century on the Dispensary. The corner section was built UNDERTAKER’S COTTAGE manager's residence and stables. The Hotel on Wallace Street. In the early 20th the field. The circular track featured site of Wallis’ Auction Rooms, the building 12 by Hendricks & Jacobs as the Victoria 24 ELRINGTON ST imposing Italianate facade reflects the century it was extended and converted to steeply banked sides and was used for now operates as a guest house. Store, then extended by Tweedie & prosperity of the gold mining era. house Braidwood’s first electricity station high speed cycle racing well into the early RYRIE PARK Weston in the 1860s. By about 1910 it was which ran intermittently during the 1920s Undertaker Edward Gristlestone Morris 24 20th century. WALLACE ST used by the Nomchong family as a general and 1930s. lived and worked in this dwelling, which THE ROYAL CAFÉ store. It has since accommodated several housed a significant coffin factory in its 19 106 WALLACE ST galleries and private apartments. Reserved at the suggestion of Dr Thomas THE POUNDKEEPER’S COTTAGE outbuildings. Morris managed burials in 44 Braidwood for most of the mid and late Braidwood Wilson as a public recreation 45 RYRIE ST Maintaining its flamboyant early 20th 19th century. ground and market square. Dr Wilson century style facade, this store featured and other prominent settlers provided One of few surviving brick cottages in the Australian movie “The Year my Voice exotic plants and flowers for the grounds BEDERVALE on Ryrie Street, the cottage dates to Broke”, filmed in Braidwood in the 1980s. as well as a fine brass sundial. His 13 MONKITTEE ST THE CORNER HOTEL the 1850s, with later additions. The superintendent Joseph Taylor laid out the 36 112-114 WALLACE ST Poundkeeper took care of stray horses and grounds and paths. A magnificent country house designed livestock, which were kept in the Pound by John Verge and built from 1836 for This 1860s store was originally built as a Paddock at the south end of Ryrie Street 53 THE WESLEYAN CHURCH 82 DUNCAN ST 5 THE FORMER ANGLICAN RECTORY Captain John Coghill, one of Braidwood’s hotel, and then saw use as a bank and as until claimed by their owners or sold. 62 WILSON ST first affluent settlers. Coghill’s daughter a store. A major restoration undertaken THE LASCELLES ST Elizabeth married Robert Maddrell, and in 2004 has returned the facade to its late 45 Built in 1855, the Wesleyan Chapel is An early Victorian house with later the house remained in that family until the 19th century appearance. WORKERS' COTTAGES the oldest church building in Braidwood. additions, stands adjacent to the site 1970s when it was purchased by the Royds THE FINE GRANITE ALBERT BUILDINGS It was also used as a Sunday School in the 1900s. Retaining many of its original of the first Anglican Church. Until it was family. Many of the original contents are 30 200 WALLACE ST ELISVILLE These cottages, moved from their original 37 architectural features and a garden, it sold, it was one of the oldest Anglican still intact, and the private home is open 102 DUNCAN ST sites in the early 20th century, date from rectories still in use. the 1860s, following a subdivision in about is now a private residence. for inspection regularly. THE ALBION HOTEL Built by Hendricks & Jacobs in the 1840s 20 1900. Initially of two rooms, the skillion 119 WALLACE ST this building had two shopfronts, business Built in the 1860s for James Rodd MLA, THE DIGGER’S REST HOTEL rear sections were sometimes enclosed or MARIA BADGERY’S HOUSE 14 rooms and upstairs accommodation. The Member for Goldfields South. Rodd was ST ANDREW’S UNITING CHURCH 6 50 WALLACE ST joined to a separate kitchen. 54 48 ELRINGTON ST Built by the MacDonald family in 1872 walls originally had tall end gables and prominent in resolving the Braidwood 68 MONKITTEE ST as the “modern hotel”, the Albion was THE POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE upstairs rooms, and cellars below. In the disputes of the 1860s. He gave evidence Built around 1859, the Digger’s Rest 25 1850S FREESTONE BUILDING Dates to the 1840s, with an 1860s addition renowned for its luxuriousness and 154 WALLACE ST 1860s, the building was remodelled to at the Royal Commission on the state of 46 Built in 1861, following the establishment on the north side. The home is closely Hotel was one of many gold rush hotels in excellent food during the late 19th and house a steam mill, and later variations crime in Braidwood, and was active in 59 COWPER ST of the Presbyterian Parish in the area connected to the Doncaster Inn, Braidwood. It is adjacent to an early home early 20th century. The building was Built in 1865 as the Telegraph Office, the altered the roofline and facade. The the Athletic Sports Association, his home in 1843. The structure is a simple having served as the owner’s quarters of the Nomchong family. Their general restored in the early 1980s. The Malone Post Office was moved here in the 1890s positions of the two early shops are still being nearby the Hibernian Cycle Racing An 1850s freestone building, with church building, devoid of excessive for the Badgery family for most of the store operated from the corner building for family, who operated a coaching service from McKellar Street. Beside the main visible in the main granite wall. The rear Track. The timber brick cottage has been late 19th century additions and fine ornamentation with a later addition mid-19th century. eighty years into the mid 20th century. for many years, had their offices here. building is the Postmaster’s residence. features a fine stonewalled courtyard. restored to its 1860s appearance. Edwardian interiors. of a bell tower.