[1] Sinclair lived at St Clair until 1851 when, in financial difficulties, he left for the Victorian goldfields and was never heard of again.

[1][3] Sinclair almost certainly owned John Claudius Loudon's "Cottage Architecture" (sic) first edition in the late 1830s.

Sinclair also designed a similar Goulburn cottage for his friend and business acquaintance John James Woodward.

[1] In 1883 a school for girls was being run at St Clair by Mrs Emric and her two daughters the Misses Crackenthrope.

In the late 1880s a Miss Sharp taught music, piano, organ, harmonium, harp, French and drawing at the house.

In the period 1908 to 1910 St Clair was rented by Mr Boissier, the local Government Architect of the day.

[6][1] The McCarthy family ran it as a guesthouse from around 1912 until 1922 when it was purchased from Mrs Egar by Horace Oliver Pursehouse.

The Goulburn and District Historical Society persuaded Council to purchase St Clair, using the Premier's Department funds and to devote the balance of any moneys towards its restoration.

They are now joined by the Friends of St Clair in preserving the significant collection and archival research centre.

It is of solid brick construction, rendered, with internal plaster lining in all ground floor rooms.

[1] In common with the majority of country homes of the period the elegance and grandeur depreciates as one moves towards the back of the building and the downstairs areas.

The layout downstairs would not appear to permit the most accommodating domestic arrangement and would certainly have kept the housewife and maids constantly occupied.

[1] St Clair is a typical example of the early provincial colonial villa of its period.

[1] This Wikipedia article was originally based on St. Clair, entry number 00117 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 1 June 2018.

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