House On The Hill Colour:Raw Nurses Office at Rozelle

Nurses Office at Rozelle

and farm machinery across the southern Monaro tablelands for 65 years

The research file notes over 200 historic huts survive across the Australian Alps national parks

post-1880s weatherboard construction marking a step up from the slab huts that preceded them

House On The Hill Colour:Raw Nurses Office at RozelleA timber framed house stands alone on an exposed hill, its bleached facade open to sun and wind through broken windows. Structures like this one represent the long arc of rural settlement across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley, from the selector's gamble of the 1860s onward to the progressive abandonment that followed. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.