Napthalis Homestead
Known as Snowy Plain House or Napthalis Homestead.
Location
History
Now a site, all that remains are the floor bearers. The following words are from Pauline Downings’ book:
Snowy Plain House was home for many years to Maurice Napthali and his wife Sarah Bolton. It was a substantial home and the centre of their social circle.
Maurice worked in the Berridale, Jindabyne and Snowy Plain as a horse breaker, stockman and blacksmith and was renowned as a fine horseman. He arrived in Berridale with his sister Eliza who had married William Glanville, a well-known bullock team driver in the area. Snowy Plain House was a social centre for the eighteen families who lived nearby. Dances were held there regularly and tennis was played on a court in front of the house.
Construction
The original house was built of slabs with a shingle roof. Weatherboards and an iron roof were added later. The house had five rooms and an outside dairy room where butter and cheese were made. Maurice (1841-1913) and Sarah (1857-1945) were married in 1883 and it is believed that they moved into Snowy Plain House, which Maurice had built at about that time.
References
Downing, Pauline, “If I Wake in the Middle of the Night” 1998
KHA Reference is 2509.