Blue Mountains Life – August-September 2019

FEATURE

WEVISITA TRUE EXAMPLE OF OPULENCE

AND STYLE ATMOUNTVICTORIA.

riginally built in 1876 as a

mountain retreat for John R.

Fairfax, Mount Victoria Manor

continues to reflect the grandeur of

he late 1800s and early 1900s.

-world mansion sits in a commanding

ount Victoria, overlooking the village

nd. Mount Victoria Manor is one of the

earliest and original guest houses in the Blue

Mountains, boasting.

After Fairfax’s passing, the property was

leased out to George Aitken in 1883 who

converted the home into a guest house and

used it briefly to serve as a school in 1855.

The property was then sold on to Mr G.H.

Cooper, who obtained a hotel license for the

premises and opened “Blue Mountains Manor

House” the Easter week of 1887.

For the next eight years, the property

underwent many alterations to create a glorious

tourist hotel. Mr Cooper changed the properties

name to The Grand Hotel, in which it was then

later on referred to as Cooper’s Grand Hotel,

which remained so until 1966.

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