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Fortuna Villa is a mansion near Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. It was first built in 1855 by Theodore Ballerstadt, who opened the first quartz crushing gold mine in the area. The area proved to have a lot of gold and this led to a gold rush to the area, at the time there where numerous gold rushes taking place throughout Victoria. As Ballerstadt expanded his gold mines he started renovating his home the Fortuna Villa, and it went from being a large but modest house, to a mansion that is seen today. A Lookout tower was constructed by the kitchen so that the businessman could look out over the gold fields he owned.

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  • Fortuna Villa is a mansion near Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. It was first built in 1855 by Theodore Ballerstadt, who opened the first quartz crushing gold mine in the area. The area proved to have a lot of gold and this led to a gold rush to the area, at the time there where numerous gold rushes taking place throughout Victoria. As Ballerstadt expanded his gold mines he started renovating his home the Fortuna Villa, and it went from being a large but modest house, to a mansion that is seen today. A Lookout tower was constructed by the kitchen so that the businessman could look out over the gold fields he owned.
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  • Fortuna Villa is a mansion near Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. It was first built in 1855 by Theodore Ballerstadt, who opened the first quartz crushing gold mine in the area. The area proved to have a lot of gold and this led to a gold rush to the area, at the time there where numerous gold rushes taking place throughout Victoria. As Ballerstadt expanded his gold mines he started renovating his home the Fortuna Villa, and it went from being a large but modest house, to a mansion that is seen today. A Lookout tower was constructed by the kitchen so that the businessman could look out over the gold fields he owned. In 1871, Theodore Ballerstadt sold the villa to George Lansell. Lansell further expanded the villa so that he could move his family into the home, George Lansell died in 1906 but his wife Edith continued to renovate the house. In the second world war the house was used by the Australian Army as a mapping survey centre, after this it was declared the property of the Victorian parliament and became a listed Commonwealth Heritage site. Fortuna Villa is Haunted
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