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Auxilium College -Salesians of Don Bosco Seminary

Other Name The Leasowes, House Location 465 Lysterfield Road, Lysterfield VIC 3156 - Property No 61449 File Number 22 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The 1880s two-storey building on this site, formerly The Leasowes, has high local significance as a remaining example of a 19 century rural retreat and holiday house built for Edward Charsley, a Melbourne barrister, who entertained guests there and bred racehorses, and later, as the home in the 1890s of Edward Quinn, grazier, and his family. From the mid-1960s, it has been the Auxilium College, a seminary run by a Catholic religious order to train young men for the Salesian priesthood, and a retreat centre for school, parish and other groups.