Description
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Brookfield House
Built 1896 – 1897
Built for the Regular Permanent Army personnel, seconded to the local troop of NSW Mounted Rifles. The Army unit was a volunteer unit known as a Militia Force or Volunteer Army Reserve Force.
The Officer Commanding was Lt.Col. J.W. Macarthur Onslow and their drill hall was the present Camden Show Ground.
First rates paid to council by Captain Antill of the local NSW mounted Rifles Troop.
One of the residents at this time was Staff Sergeant Lacey
1912 – Gas Lighting in the streets of Camden
1920’s – Miss Mackenzie’s Boarding House
1923 –Mr and Mrs Dick White lived here
1929 – Asphalt completed to Hill Street
1930’s – Camden gets Electricity
1937 – 1976 Rofe family lived here – Top veranda was enclosed at this time
Mr and Mrs Ernest and Ruby Rofe and 4 sons, Ron, Sid, Keith and Laurie all raised in the house.
1941 – Kerbing and guttering to be carried out on Hill Street,
1978 – 1983 – Dr Peter Arnaudon, Practiced from front rooms the family lived here- Peter and Sue with children Adrien, Alex and Elise.
1984 – Offered for sale and bought by the Wheeler Family
1989 – Brookfield House had Devonshire Teas along with Patchwork and craft supplies with an Art Exhibition room.
1996 – offered for sale
1998 – Antique shop.
2003 – 2010 Owned by Tim and Lynelle Stewart lived here with their children Emily, Jesse, Amy and Tilly.
2010 – 2019 – Owner Penny Fischer- Camden Councillor – daughter of NSW minister Pru Goward and sister to Kate Fischer
2019 – Bought by the Webster Family, They did a total renovation 2019/2022
2022 – 1st July Brookfield House opened as a Tea House owned and managed by
Mother/ daughter duo Natasha Webster and Jacinda Dujakovic.
