Elsinore

This small timber cottage with unusual side wing, may have been constructed in the late 1860s for Charles Fullwood, a bookbinder. There is, however, little solid evidence for this as Fullwood was not recorded as residing on Robert Street. In 1882, the property was sold to Charles Joseph Mander, a mail officer with the General Post Office. He was first recorded at the address in 1883. Samuel Ross, a labourer, bought the property in 1890 which remained in the Ross family until the 1920s. The cottage is a fine example of an early timber cottage in Spring Hill and represents the suburban development that occurred in the inner-city suburb in the late nineteenth century.