Publisher's Synopsis
Official Residence and Family Home. Bishopscourt is one of the last surviving pre-gold rush house and garden complexes within the City of Melbourne. The building was extended 50 years later by Arts and Crafts advocate Walter Richmond Butler, and although it has been renovated and refurbished over the years, the original building remains largely intact. The centre of diocesan life, Bishopscourt was built as the family home of Melbournes Anglican bishops and archbishops and their wives. For the fourteen women whose task it was to manage her private household, Bishopscourt represented a unique challenge.
