Fairview, Windsor

Reference: 15467

Sale of the home and contents of the ‘Brick Residence and Red Cedar Furnishings of Special Interest to Antique and Other Collectors’ known as Fairview’ situated at 98 The Terrace, Windsor.

The sale was to take place at one o’clock on Saturday 16 May, the auctioneers J B Johnston and Co having received instructions from the Executors of the Estate of Miss Clara Manning, deceased. The house was described as being solidly and faithfully built and comprised an entrance hallway five feet wide, lounge room, three bedrooms, dining room, breakfast room, bathroom, pantry, laundry with a verandah all round. The block was sewered with electric light connected, had a frontage to The Terrace of eighty feet with wood house, fowl runs and spacious lawns. The land was still in Old Systems title at the time of sale.

The inventory of contents was recorded in great detail and it was noted that ‘the Furnishings are mostly antique and, with one or two exceptions, made of the finest Red Polished Cedar, said to be upwards of 130 years old, and in exceptionally good condition’. The house contained a veritable treasure trove of furniture, china and the decorative arts. For example, the dining room included a carved cedar sideboard with large overmantel, a six foot by three foot cedar dining table with turned legs, a pair of gold-framed scenic oil paintings, three pairs of vases, a glass globe containing ornamental flowers and another containing fruit, to mention just some of the treasures.