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The site of one of the first homes in Central Hawthorn that gave its name to the area "Auburn", (or later Auburn Lodge). The house was built for Rev. H. W. W. Liddiard in 1850, on perhaps the highest land in his property which stretched from Oxley Road to Liddiard Street, Crown allotments 65-67. He became Anglican minister at St Kilda, later selling his Hawthorn property and returning to England, but reappearing in the Oakleigh area later. His remaining property was subdivided with new roads William and Henry Streets, "Upper Hawthorn". The house was acquired by politician Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903) who was in Hawthorn perhaps from 1855 until 1881. The Burwood Road frontage of the homestead block was subdivided that year and later the house and a new Hepburn Street was included in the "Hepburn Hill Estate" with "Auburn House" in Goodall Street. Duffy was on the Municipal Committee and the Hawthorn Literary Association. The house was bought by James Land, nurseryman in 1886.
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Auctioneer's plan, 1885, showing Auburn Lodge. |
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
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