The Magnanerie

24/12/2019

Federation Council community calendar 2020. Well done Paul Blake.

26/04/2019

The process has begun to secure heritage funding for Corowa’s historic silk farm Magnanerie, but time is running out as the condition of the structure continues to deteriorate. Federation Council members have voted in favour of the Magnanerie...

02/09/2018

Still searching for old red bricks to pave floor of second room. Any donations welcome - however big or small. Need about another thousand.

18/07/2018

Moody skies over The Magnanerie.

10/04/2018

The front entrance prior to removing unidentifiable tree. March 2016.
Photo credit Ann Killeen.

10/04/2018

UPDATE
Corowa Free Press 5th April 2018

21/03/2018

Stone ruins from the Harcourt silkfarm site that was established by Sarah Bladen Neill. She then moved her operations to Corowa in 1877. The Harcourt site is heritage listed in Vic. We are in the process of getting The Magnanerie at Corowa heritage listed.

Historic stone ruins left by pioneering efforts to establish a silk enterprise at Harcourt must be protected, local historians say.

19/03/2018

We are on the agenda for today's council meeting. Yay.

12/02/2018

Mud building three ways. A wasp nest and a swallow nest on the 140 year old rammed earth wall.

09/02/2018

In front of The Magnanerie. Photo credit Sue Davis Photography. Pony supplied by Ann Killeen.

12/01/2018

By Sarah Dean. The property owner where a 140-year-old building stands that once farmed silkworms says it’s one of Corowa’s hidden treasures and should be turned into a tourism attraction before its roof falls in.. Dyonne Rhodes said for