Eben Gowrie Waterhouse
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Eben Gowrie Waterhouse was an Australian who had three distinguished careers. Starting out as an innovative teacher of languages, he became one of Australia's most prominent Germanists when classical
Camellia 'E. G. Waterhouse' raised by Waterhouse in 1946 at Gordon, NSW and named after himself.
Garden studio at Eryldene (camellias at right)
Camellia sasanqua 'Plantation Pink', Waterhouse 1942
Camellia japonica 'Somersby', Waterhouse 1944
Eryldene, Gordon
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Eryldene is a heritage-listed former family residence and now house museum located at 17 McIntosh Street in the suburb of Gordon, on the Upper North Shore region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Eben Gowrie Waterhouse
…University. Between 1913 and 1936 Waterhouse had built on half an acre (0.2 hectares) of land at 17 McIntosh Street, Gordon a house and garden called Eryldene after his wife's birthplace in Scotland. The Waterhouses with their son Gordon moved into the house in 1914. The garden eventually doubled in size; in…
Eryldene 2
Early photograph of the entrance to Eryldene
Interior