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Glen Park Homestead and Cypress Avenue

Other Name House Location 23 Blackhill Road, Selby VIC 3159 - Property No 74532 File Number 260 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Glen Park Homestead and its cypress avenue have high local significance for their associations with Edwin Johns, an early district farmer who, in the late 1890s, built his house and planted the cypress avenue. Johns, who worked hard to clear his land and construct his house in 1898, became the foreman of the section of the narrow gauge Gembrook railway line after his property suffered in the 1898 bushfires. Later, the little train used to take on water at The Tanks, an area at the southern edge of John's farm. Architecturally, the homestead is of interest as a typical and substantially intact example of a later nineteenth century house; regrettably, it is now in poor condition.