| 词条 | The Digger's Club |
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The Digger's Club maintains two historic gardens which are open to the public, one of which is listed as a national heritage site. GardensHeronswoodHome of the Digger's Club, Heronswood is listed on the Register of the National Estate.[1] It is also listed in Oxford Companion to Gardens as one of only four gardens in Victoria, alongside the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Mawallock and Rippon Lea.[2] The first law professor at Melbourne University, William Hearn, employed Edward Latrobe Bateman to design Heronswood's main house in 1866. The house, which is of an asymmetric Gothic Revival design, was completed in 1871.[3] The Garden of St ErthIn 1854 Matthew Rogers, a Cornish stonemason, left Sydney in pursuit of gold discovered near Mount Blackwood in Victoria. In the 1860s he built a sandstone cottage, naming it "St Erth" after his birthplace in Cornwall now restored and forming the centrepiece of the gardens.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}} References1. ^{{Cite AHPI|VIC339|Heronswood Estate|accessdate=28 July 2016}} 2. ^Oxford Companion to Gardens, Oxford University Press, 2006. 3. ^{{Cite AHPI|RNE5799|Victorian Heritage Register listing for Heronswood House|accessdate=28 July 2016}} External links
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