Front Facade Type:Unframed its painted walls peeling back

its painted walls peeling back through layers of colour applied over nearly a century of continuous use

every surface filmed with dust and marked by rust

Sapphire Palms Motel

The sanitorium operated continuously from 1903 until May 1999

The turbine hall

Front Facade Type:Unframed its painted walls peeling backThe front facade of Mountain View Homestead and General Store shows timber walls shedding flaking paint and window panes broken open to the sky. Built by owner builder David Smith Todd between 1880 and 1894, the two storey wattle and daub structure at Wisemans Creek carries carved balcony timbers and decorative finials beneath its deteriorating skin. Part of the Mountain View Homestead series.