A whole wild west village complete with a jail, church and brothel built at a house northwest of Melbourne is up for grabs
Buyers interested in the couple’s three-bedroom house with a home cinema can also snap up the village’s jail, general store, church, blacksmith, picture theatre, stagecoach booking office, brothel and grain store for the $1.8m asking price.“I thought, ‘I’ll build a little building, before I knew it I had another one and then another one,” Mr Olver said.An aerial shot of the house and the ‘Westworld-style’ village.The front of the main house that Mr Olver and wife Shirley live in.
The village is fitted out with old-fashioned objects collected from antique stores and garage sales, and US imports.The Australian flag greets visitors. There’s a cemetery with false gravestones and a mining set-up, as a nod to Yandoit’s Gold Rush history.He runs a vintage 16mm projector in the picture theatre, showing old movies and television shows like Gunsmoke and Laurel and Hardy.The main house also has a cinema.“Pending council approval, it would be a great place to host weddings and events,” Ms McQueen said.
The property offers “spectacular views” of Mt Franklin, a cellar, two dams with a pump for garden irrigation, 50,000 litres of water storage, a double garage and carport.Mr Olver said he would give buyers both the 35mm and modern Blu-ray projectors inside the house’s cinema, and throw in some of his DVD westerns.“Yandoit is great place to live, it’s quiet and beautiful,” he said.
“I’m sorry to be selling but at my age, 77, it’s a bit hard to keep up with everything that needs to be done around here.”to get the latest Victorian property market news delivered direct to your inbox.
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