Summer Beach Spotlight: Cottesloe 1890s mining boom offering with captain’s turret
Belvedere, a limestone 1897 Cottesloe residence, has been listed with $5.5 million-plus hopes.
It’s been listed by
The heritage-listed house with turret views to
Belvedere was constructed by a wealthy mining investor, J. J. Campbell, who managed a tin mine in
It was used as a family residence until the 1930s, when it was let out as a boarding house.
In 1974 the house was put on the market as a development site but purchased by Loretta and Tom Pell, who restored the house for family use.
Belvedere was set for demolition in 1974 but the
Cottesloe was named by Governor Frederick Broome, in 1886, soon gathering the wealthy of
Although the
But by 1897, the population of the Cottesloe area was approaching 1,500 permanent residents.
Its three-storey, 11-metre-tall tower was reputedly built so that retired sea captain Thomas Campbell could watch shipping movements with a telescope.
The property which originally stretched to the beach reserve is now 50 metres from the beach.
It has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, wrap-around verandas and pool. It last traded in 2005 at $3.85 million.
Another Cottesloe Federation Queen Anne-style property, Trafalgar House, constructed in 1915 for William Liddell, the manager of Hoskins Foundry and Kalgoorlie Foundry, is listed through Chris Shellabear at Shellabears.