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Coonara Springs

Other Name Coonara Springs Tea Gardens/ Coonara Springs Tea Rooms, House Location 129 Olinda-Monbulk Road, Olinda VIC 3788 - Property No 12997 File Number 162 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Coonara Springs has high local significance as an early 1890s selector's house with 1940s additions, including the "Big Music Room" with its fireplace of locally quarried stone added by the 1940s owner, the former opera singer, Grace Angelau. The property has significant associations with the growth of tourism in the Dandenongs from the 1920s, when it was run as the Coonara Springs Tea Gardens. Coonara Springs has associations with a number of prominent district people including Simeon Kent, teamster and timber worker during the 1890s and at the turn of the century; Frederick Le Juge, district baker and councillor after the First World War; Mrs Hall and Mrs Faulds, who opened the Coonara Springs Tea Gardens in the 1920s; and the former opera singer Grace Angelau, who ran the tea rooms and a nursery at Coonara Springs.