Schwerkolt Cottage

Schwerkolt Cottage is a pioneer cottage constructed around 1880 at Mitcham, Victoria. This history web page encompasses the authentic stone cottage, associated replicated outbuildings and a neighborhood records museum, surrounded by using 2.25 hectares of gardens and bushland, and adjoining to Yarran Dheran bushland park. The stone cottage has been restored to its authentic situation and supplied in a fashion of the length and houses items curated by way of the Whitehorse Historical Society. The cottage is of an uncommon design with three rooms commencing onto a verandah with person outside doorways however no doorways between the rooms. There are verbal exchange hols between the rooms.

This is thought to be a vernacular style from Schwerkolt's hometown. August Schwerkolt emigrated together with his spouse Paulina from the town in Prussia arriving at Hobson’s Bay on 20 December 1849. They settled initially in Northcote, where some of fellow Germans had already end up established. On 14 December 1861, the Schwerkolts purchased 88 acres of land beside the Mullum Mullum Creek or Deep Creek, Mitcham, and with their youngsters labored both houses for a time, with a marketplace lawn at Northcote.