Original painting is Sold. Prints available.
Medium – Watercolour
Herbert Hoover was the first general manager of the British mining company The Sons of Gwalia in 1898 in Western Australia and that he found the site, and directed the construction, of the building of the mine manager’s house which was intended to be his home and place of work. He also oversaw the design of the staff and office buildings on the hill overlooking the mine and the growing town-site where the workers lived.
He never did occupy it however as Hoover was transferred by the Company to China prior to it being completed.
Herbert Hoover’s house – now Hoover House – is located in the now ghost mining town of Gwalia, just outside Leonora, 828 kilometres North East of Perth, Western Australia (by road, 8 hrs 46 minutes today – yes Australia is a big place!) It is now owned by the local shire and operates as Bed & Breakfast accommodation. Very little has changed, either externally or internally, and it forms part of the Hoover House museum complex.