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a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2015 . Retrieved 10 April 2015. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Although currently a private home, Swifts is regularly featured in films and hosts distinguished cultural and charitable events. These have included the following: Telemovie: Mary – The Making of a Princess ( FremantleMedia Australia, 2015): Swifts is featured as the Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. [94]

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), the National Monuments Service and the Office of Public Works (OPW) will now work together to deliver a Masterplan for the property that allows for the protection, presentation and management of this area of the Boyne Valley. Management of Dowth Hall and lands will form part of the existing Brú na Bóinne Management Plan and strengthen the vision for the protection of Dowth’s remarkable heritage, including the Neolithic passage tomb discovered in 2017 under Dowth Hall itself. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

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The Weekend Australian – WISH Magazine, April 2023. Story by David Meagher, Photography by Tom Ferguson. People often overlook a Mary or a John, but they seldom forget a person named Meretricious or Flinch.” Shenanigan’s sister, Phenomena, is a scientist; her Aunt Inheritance is an archivist. (“I keep our family history, I chronicle our legacy, I maintain our customs.”) Shenanigan, in contrast, appears doomed to be a troublemaker: “It’s who she is. She can’t help her name… She wouldn’t be called Shenanigan if the name didn’t fit.” Until 1983 the house and grounds had been essentially the private domain of the Tooth and Resch families and the Catholic Church hierarchy, with use of the chapel for masses and weddings. The future premier of New South Wales, The Hon. Bob Carr, was married to Helena John there in 1973. Some interest in the property was elicited by the press in the early 1960s as the details of Edmund Resch Jr's bequest to the Catholic Church became public. This intensified in the 1980s when the future was debated and discussed by government and the general public. Swifts is significant as a unique Australian translation of a Gothic or Old English style upper-middle class country house of the late nineteenth century picturesquely perched at the tip of Darling Point on Sydney Harbour. The house is impressive for its scale and use of sandstone masonry in the Gothic or Old English style of architecture, planning and decorative embellishments and is one of the grandest castellated mansions in New South Wales. Moreover, Swifts is of both New South Wales State and Australian heritage significance, as apart from Government House, Sydney, it is the largest remaining Victorian Gothic Revival house in Australia. There is considerable diversity of the decorative styles used in the respective rooms, with the ballroom and its hallway being the work of Lyon, Cottier & Co., Sydney (the leading firm of art decorators in the last quarter of the nineteenth century). The Moorish smoking room (opium den), the upper hall and the vestibule walls and ceiling are also their work – and most likely some of the other rooms. It is also likely that John Clay Beeler, an American trained art decorator then working in Sydney, who went on to decorate the interior of Melbourne's International Exhibition building for the 1888 Centenary, undertook work in the interior decoration. The copy of Guido Reni's Aurora in the sopraporte is believed to be the work of the Italian decorator in Sydney Signor Lorenzini, who regarded Reni as a master Italian artist from the early seventeenth century.

The gardens of Swifts hosted the wedding ceremony of Melissa and Josh in Married at First Sight's Season 10. EDMUND RESCH". The Mirror. No.23. New South Wales, Australia. 1 December 1917. p.3 . Retrieved 13 August 2018– via National Library of Australia. The nest of many species is glued to a vertical surface with saliva, and the genus Aerodramus use only that substance, which is the basis for bird's nest soup. Other swifts select holes and small cavities in walls. [15] The eggs hatch after 19 to 23 days, and the young leave the nest after a further six to eight weeks. Both parents assist in raising the young. [13] The gardens at Swifts are significant as a distinctive cultural landscape associated with individuals and families important in the development of Sydney and of New South Wales. It is a particularly fine example of a landscaped garden developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century reflecting particular design trends and planting styles. The special relationship of the grounds to the house is a significant factor in determining the status of the grounds as an item of environmental heritage. Fashion Runways: MacGraw Fashion Collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in May 2018. Swifts served as the runway for the MacGraw Fashion Collection [88] [89] and the launch of the Dior Cruise Collection in October 2019.Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. The taxonomy of the swifts is complicated, with genus and species boundaries widely disputed, especially amongst the swiftlets. Analysis of behavior and vocalizations is complicated by common parallel evolution, while analyses of different morphological traits and of various DNA sequences have yielded equivocal and partly contradictory results. [4]

Death of Arnold Resch". The National Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 19 June 1945. p.1 . Retrieved 13 August 2018– via National Library of Australia. Martins, Thais; Mead, Christopher J. (2003). "Swifts". In Perrins, Christopher (ed.). The Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds. Firefly Books. pp. 346–350. ISBN 1-55297-777-3. del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Sargatal, Jordi; Christie, David A.; de Juana, Eduardo (eds.). "Apodidae". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions . Retrieved 10 September 2013. TV – Horoscopes, Food, Fashion, Travel & Lifestyle – Yahoo7 Be". au.tv.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015 . Retrieved 20 April 2015.

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Television Series: Unreal Estate: Episode 5 ( Nine Network, 2016): Swifts was one of the feature houses in the Australian television series' episode entitled "Grand Mansions" which aired on 25 October 2016 to a national Australian audience. The Internment of Edmund Resch". The Barrier Miner. New South Wales, Australia. 3 December 1917. p.2 . Retrieved 13 August 2018– via National Library of Australia. Sydney and Provincial Social Items". Illustrated Sydney News. Vol.XXVIII, no.6. New South Wales, Australia. 14 March 1891. p.9 . Retrieved 23 May 2019– via National Library of Australia. The motto Perseverantia Palmam Obtinebit, being Latin for "perseverance gains the prize", is carved into the eastern façade of Swifts and seems to sum up the home as well as the lives of those who have lived in it.