''Windsor Gardens'' is a
heritage-listed former residence, reception venue and now
retirement village
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located at
Chatswood,
City of Willoughby,
New South Wales
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, Australia. It was built in 1888. It is also known as Iroquois. The property is privately owned. It was added to the
New South Wales State Heritage Register
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on 2 April 1999.
History
''Windsor Gardens'' was built in 1888 by American journalist Frank Coffee, who arrived in
Sydney in 1882 as a reporter for the ''
New York Herald''. It was originally named ''Iroquois'' after an American battleship visiting Sydney at the time.
[
During the early years, ]Mass
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was held each month in the drawing room of ''Iroquois'' for the local Catholic community by a priest
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from Riverview College. This was because there was no