Museum
Martindale Hall
18 locals recommend,
Location
1 Min Man Rd
Mintaro, SA
Tips from locals
Historical residence now a museum. A must see if you want to be wowed by colonial grandeur.
Martindale Hall is a Georgian styled sandstone mansion which has significant heritage value in South Australia. Built in 1879 – 1880, it has some 32 rooms and boasts a large cellar of some 7 rooms. The home also had a polo ground, a racecourse, a boating lake and a cricket pitch where the English 11 played at least once. To visit Martindale Hall today is a unique experience of a living museum, a step back in time to the days of gracious living on a large pastoral estate late in the 1800’s to early 1900’s. Where a rumoured 14 servants 4 of which lived in the hall and on call 24 hrs a day looked after the needs of two people, such was the extravagant upper class lifestyle of the wealthy.
Martindale Hall is a Georgian styled sandstone mansion which has significant heritage value in South Australia. Built in 1879 – 1880, it has some 32 rooms and boasts a large cellar of some 7 rooms. The home also had a polo ground, a racecourse, a boating lake and a cricket pitch where the English 1…
An amazing building with a very interesting history, just out of Mintaro. Well worth a visit.