This postcard view shows Fairlight House circa 1912-13, and indicates what a superb view its various owners would have had looking from its central tower out to the Heads. Unusually it shows the house from the rear, giving an idea of its various outbuildings. The house originally stood on some 37 acres of land when it was built in 1859-60, but this had begun to be encroached upon by the time the photo was taken. The owners from 1910 onwards were the MacIntyre family of graziers, who had large property interests in Queensland. Fairlight House was demolished in 1939 and the land subdivided.
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