Blundells Cottage

Blundell's Cottage is a five-roomed stone cottage located on the Southern shore of Lake Burley Griffin, in Canberra, Australia. When it was built this was the Molonglo River floodplain. It was built by George P. Campbell in about 1858 for his ploughman William Ginn. Ginn lived there with his family until 1874 when Flora and George Blundell moved in. Flora was a midwife and George a bullock driver for Campbell. In 1913 the Duntroon estate was acquired by the Commonwealth to form part of the new Federal Capital Territory, although the Blundells continued to live there until 1933, when Harry and Alice Oldfield took over the cottage. After Alice Oldfied moved out in 1958 it was planned to demolish the cottage. However Lord William Holford proposed that the cottage be kept as a museum. The National Capital Development Commission renovated the cottage and it was managed as a museum by the Canberra and District Historic Society until 1990. Blundells Cottage is significant, in that it reflects a way of life on a nineteenth century agricultural estate, and being one of the few stone buildings of its type to have survived intact in the Australian Capital Territory. Today, The National Capital Authority manages Blundells Cottage as a museum which is open to the public.

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