The Swifts: The New York Times Bestselling Mystery Adventure (The Swifts, 1)

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a b c d Rutledge, Martha (1976). Tooth, Sir Robert Lucas Lucas- (1844–1915) (published first in hardcopy). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018 . Retrieved 13 August 2018. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) In the early stages of the Church's residence the land was subdivided into one lot containing the gardener's house (originally known as 'The Bungalow') and another lot comprising the main house, other outbuildings and grounds. The Bungalow was held in trust by The Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd with the title intended to revert to the Catholic Church on the death of the Resch's gardener. Some alterations were made to the house for the Catholic Church by architects S. G. Hirst & Kennedy. The former ballroom was converted for use as a chapel-of-ease (named St Edmunds in honour of Edmund Resch Jr) that seated 200 and had standing room for about 60 people. Alterations were made to improve services in 1965 and some redecoration but throughout this period the furniture appears to have changed little from what the Resch family had left. That same year, 1964, Cardinal Gilroy moved into Swifts as the official residence of the Archbishop of Sydney. During the first-ever Papal visit to Australia in 1970, Pope Paul VI was accommodated at Swifts as the guest of Cardinal Gilroy. Pope John Paul II also stayed at Swifts during his 1986 visit (hosted by Cardinal Clancy).

The gardens of Swifts hosted the wedding ceremony of Melissa and Josh in Married at First Sight's Season 10.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. A treasure hunt and murder mystery with a family that’s rather eccentric (adjective: zany, whimsical, oddball).

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. Resch's final testament effectively preserved Swifts and its grounds from demolition and subdivision at a time when most grand houses in Darling Point were being demolished for high-rise home unit developments. The conditional gift to the Church removed both the possibility of sale and demolition for 20 years after Edmund Resch Jr's death. If Beth Lincoln continues to write books as effortlessly clever and endlessly entertaining as her debut, The Swifts, I will be part of her audience FOR LIFE.Amazing Attempt To Blow Up Darling Point Home!". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney. 14 August 1929. p.3 . Retrieved 13 August 2018– via National Library of Australia. https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/australia-meet-your-probably-hungover-new-queen-20230613-p5dg6z.html Swifts is of State significance for its associations with two brewing families – the Tooth's who built the house and the Resch's who subsequently lived in it. [4] Shenanigan Swift is, I think, around 12 years old. She has a middle sister Phenomena and an older sister Felicity, and all of the sisters irritate and are irritated by each other in the ways that only siblings can. They live in the House with their uncle Maelstrom and their arch-aunt Schadenfreude and Cook.

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.”

The Sydney Art Quartet [76] collaborated with Champagne Maison Perrier-Jouët to host La Belle Epoque concerts in the ballroom of Swifts in March 2022. The ‘extraordinary romantic estate’ setting was described as ‘the perfect location to experience the magical pairing of live quartet music and Perrier-Jouët’s intricate and delicate champagne style - for which it is famous throughout the world’. [77] Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 September 2017 . Retrieved 12 November 2018. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)