To demonstrate what a small, small world it is, the owner/manager of the Caravan Park at Ararat at which we were staying, used to rent the house next to ours in Howrah, Tasmania approximately 11 years ago WOW - JR reckons she has changed, I guess I have too.
Aradale was a mental institution in Ararat and was opened in 1867; designed to be a town within a town, it had its own market gardens, orchard, vineyard, piggery and other livestock were kept on site. As it stands today the complex comprises 63 buildings which span a period from the 1860s to 1991. It was decommissioned in the early 1990s with patients transferred to community living and to other facilities.
NMIT one of Victoria's largest TAFE organisations, acquired Aradale in 2002 and now operates a vineyard, winery, lavender farms and trains students there.
The tours of the institution are conducted by the friends of Aradale.
I enjoyed the examples of beautiful architecture in Ararat township, I think it was described as Queen Anne.
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