Monsignor J.C. Hawes Priest House Museum
Beside the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel St Peter and St Paul, and seeming to grow out of it, is the house which Monsignor Hawes built for himself and completed in 1927. Now lovingly restored and open as a museum, it provides a key to the complex character of the architect-priest.
The low chunky building with its attractive broken roof-line and red corboda tiles has a cosy cottage-like atmosphere. Hawes admitted in a letter that he never lost part of his character which was "the English gentleman", and the interior of the house confirms this, with its library, pictures, desk, and trinkets. The plaster bust on a wall shelf is a copy of Donatell's "Laughing Boy", modelled by Monsignor Hawes as a student at the Arts and Crafts School around 1895, and for which he received first prize in a competition. One of his later souvenirs, a silver cup presented to him after winning a race at Yalgoo on his horse 'Babs' can be seen on the side-board.
The two bedrooms are used now to display photographs and articles owned or associated with Hawes, and the small hatch where his beloved fox terrier Dominie could get in and out can still be seen.
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