Lyons Cottage
Heritage building · Darwin City
74 Esplanade, Darwin City NT 0800, Australia
Highlights
This charming 1925 Colonial-style stone house in Darwin doubles as a quaint café and gallery, perfect for coffee, pastries, and indigenous art.
This charming 1925 Colonial-style stone house in Darwin doubles as a quaint café and gallery, perfect for coffee, pastries, and indigenous art.
"Lyons Cottage, built in 1925 on the corner of Knuckey Street and the Esplanade, is famous for being the first residence in Darwin built of stone. It originally housed executives from the British Australian Telegraph Company; today it's a café and gallery run by Aboriginal Bush Traders, a nonprofit community initiative. Visitors can shop for artworks, jewelry, clothing and woven fabrics made by Aboriginal artists and artisans. The garden is a pleasant spot for coffee, tea or lunch under a frangipani tree. Thecaféserves dishes made withindigenous produce,such as bushtomatoes and Kakadu plums. And the building's history is preserved in a hologram exhibit that tells stories of the Overland Telegraph line, which first linked Australia to the rest of the world in 1872."
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