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In 1866 a new school room was built and all three rooms of the 1851 building became the schoolmaster's residence. The stone mason was James Connor, an innkeeper who lived nearby in Umera, itself later a private school. Connor was a gifted craftsman and responsible for some of the finest grave markers
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October 1850. It was built by local people to a local design. It contained three rooms originally, one the school room, the other two the living space for the school teacher, John Edhouse. It opened without furniture, water supply or toilet but
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1851-3 school house: 1851. It was built by local people to a local design. It contained three rooms originally, one the school room, the other two the living space for the school teacher, John
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The 1866 building remained in use as a primary school for an extraordinarily long time, over a century, until the end of 1969. Since then the complex has been privately owned. For a time the 1866 school was used as an artist's studio, while the artist lived in the 1855 (sic: 1851-3) building.
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Both buildings remain little altered since built, the residence being an excellent example of local vernacular building and the class room building is a rare remaining work of the noted colonial architect Henry
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The former School master's residence and combined school room at the former
Bowenfels National School is the earliest government school building remaining in recognisable form in NSW being erected in 1851.
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Bowenfels National School group of two sandstone buildings is the only known group of school buildings erected under the Board of Education which controlled education in NSW from 1848 to 1866.
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The buildings have strong associations with the local community from 1851 and are associated with many noted local historical figures, in particular Andrew Brown of
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The residence is also the first government school established west of the Blue
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