Qualla: Booloominbah https://qualla.com/booloominbah en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/f/booloominbah-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Booloominbah https://qualla.com/booloominbah Booloominbah: Introduction https://qualla.com/booloominbah/ Photo credit Sardaka (talk) 08:14, 27 June 2014 (UTC), CC BY 3.0. A wealthy grazier wanted a window to honour a dead general, and his architect thought it a terrible idea. John Horbury Hunt argued against it; Frederick Robert White insisted. The result, glowing at the top of the main staircase of Booloominbah, is the largest stained-glass window in any private house in Australia — seven luminous scenes from the life of General Charles Gordon, the "martyr of Khartoum." It is the centrepiece of a sprawling Gothic mansion that White raised on the New England Tablelands in the 1880s, and which his family would one day give away to build a university.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/f/booloominbah-wp/r6ef-booloominbah-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Booloominbah: Anaiwan Land Beneath the Lawns https://qualla.com/booloominbah/ Photo credit Виктор В, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before the mansion, this was Anaiwan ground. The hill where Booloominbah stands lies within the country of the Anaiwan, also written Nganyaywana, the Aboriginal people of the New England tableland. They built extensive trading networks with neighbouring nations, drawing on the re...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/f/booloominbah-wp/r6ef-booloominbah-a-pastoralists-palace.mp3 0:06 3 full Booloominbah: Windows Full of Light https://qualla.com/booloominbah/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Step inside and the walls come alive with glass. Booloominbah holds more stained glass than any other house Hunt designed. Every main reception room glows with it, and so does the day nursery, where panels illustrate scenes from children's storybooks. The library windows carry po...

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