Archina House

The land on which 'Ascot' and 'Archina' were built formed part of a land grant to Annette McGee in 1849. "Archina" is a federation style house built in 1907 and was occupied initially by Captain A.J. and Mrs E.H. Clark. In 1912 it was aquired by Father Shaw for the Sacred Heart Missionaries, who sold it to the commonwealth in 1916 for defence purposes. In 1924, the area was set up by the RAAF as an experimental station for the Wackett Widgeon planes, with Archina housing the engineers, and the factory producing the parts directly behind. Today, Archina houses familites of Australian army officers.