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Cardigan Street Miner\u2019s Right known as much for its gardens as it is for the building.<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT was built with the winnings from the 1898 Caulfield Cup and has been in the family ever since, but for the first time in one hundred and twenty years, number eight Cardigan Street, Lake Wendouree is on the open market.<\/p>\n

Known as Hymettus, the name of the horse that started it all, the historic home has seen three generations of the Taffe family, and it of course holds significant personal memories.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Taffe, my grandfather, had a ticket in the Tattersalls Caulfield Cup sweep, won whatever he won and brought the property and we\u2019ve been here ever since,\u201d said third-generation owner of the property Michael Taffe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been just home. While I was an only child, I have 60 first cousins, so it was always a house full of people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were lucky with the lake there, dad had all the connections and we used to go for trips over the lake on the steamer every other weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"While the home has a history, Hymettus garden\u2019s may be just, if not more, culturally important.<\/p>\n

It was one of the first homes opened as part of the Victorian Garden Scheme in the late 1980s but those events pre-dated the showings between 1915 to 1918 as part of a Ballarat-wide garden competition, which Mr Taffe\u2019s grandfather won.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we bought the place we didn\u2019t know any of that,\u201d Mr Taffe said. \u201cWe undertook renovations and found in the old pantry shelves letters and photographs from the 1890s onwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Royal Botanic Gardens from Melbourne came up and did an interpretive study of the garden layout using the old photos. So we put the garden back the way it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cEdgar [Bartrop] said, \u2018People used to come from all over Australia to see your place\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The upkeep of the garden is part of the reason the Taffes have decided to sell.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my hands,\u201d Mr Taffee said. \u201cI can\u2019t prune my roses anymore. I can cut the hedges, but it\u2019s a third of an acer and a kilometre of hedge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The building has seen change over time. A fire around the turn of the century destroyed the rear of the house and subsequent additions over the following 12 decades have added space while retaining the home\u2019s original character.<\/p>\n

A professional historian, Mr Taffe has been on a journey combining his vocation with something that\u2019s always been in his life, the family home.<\/p>\n

That resulted in Hymettus becoming a registered museum in the 1980s and Mr Taffe ran tours of the property.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know much about the history, my father didn\u2019t even know they had been burned out at the turn of the century until we read about it,\u201d Mr Taffe said.<\/p>\n

The team at Ray White Ballarat<\/a> has taken on the job of helping write Hymettus\u2019 next chapter, and Paul McGourlay<\/a> is the lead agent.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s excited but respectful of the opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute privilege,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s honestly got to be the best listing to hit the market in a very long time. The history behind this one is just unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr McGourlay said that selling a home with so much history, both to the family that\u2019s lived in it for over 120 years, but also the city, was challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spent countless hours with the owners to make sure we get it right and going over every detail down to a fine line, and just learning as much as we can about the property to make sure that we do it justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cardigan Street Miner\u2019s Right known as much for its gardens as it is for the building. IT was built with the winnings from the 1898 Caulfield Cup and has been in the family ever since, but for the first time in one hundred and twenty years, number eight Cardigan Street, Lake Wendouree is on the […]<\/p>\n

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