

There Was Once an Asylum



This site not only provides an overview of mental health history and its implications for Goodna but also explores the complex relationship between memory and history
There are stories we may never know, but this site uncovers the history, revealing the layers of understanding that form the foundation of the present.
It is done in a way that honours the patients, clients, and the people.
Residence 10
Built sometime between the 1890s-1910s, relocated c1958, c2000
The Residence is a small timber-framed and -clad house standing south of Anderson House. Originally built as a residence, it has been relocated twice within the complex (in c1958 it was removed from west of McDonnell House to north of the Medical Superintendent’s Residence, and from there in c2000 to its current location which was previously the nurse's quarter's location). Fabric relating to and after its c1958 move, including its location and setting, fence and yard, verandah enclosures above handrail height and front balustrade, kitchen and bathroom fit-outs, and stumps, are not of state-level cultural heritage significance. In 2020 it is vacant and highly intact.
Features of the Residence of state-level cultural heritage significance also include
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Form, scale, and materials: single-storey, elevated house; hip-roofed core with gable-roofed projecting front room; short rear service wing with a hip roof; concave front verandah; wrapping skillion-roofed side and rear verandah (including projecting eaves and early weatherboard enclosure below handrail height); single-skin core with cross bracing where protected by the verandah, weatherboard-clad where not; chamfer board cladding of front room; corrugated metal sheet roof cladding; timber floors; single-skin partitions clad with VJ boards; VJ ceilings
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Layout: short central front hallway with a room on either side leading to a rear living room and third bedroom, and a rear door to the verandah of the rear wing with kitchen and bathroom
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Joinery: panelled internal doors and fanlights (later closed over), glazed French doors to verandahs and glazed fanlights, boarded rear door to service wing, double-hung windows; board verandah valance and chamfered verandah posts (bearing notches of original balustrade)
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Early door and window hardware (brass bolts, handles and catches, rim locks)
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Sheet metal ogee window hoods
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Metal water goods.