The National Trust was founded to protect the beautiful places people love to go to. Starting in New South Wales, it spread across Australia with each state starting their own National Trust office.
There are over 300 heritage places collectively managed by the National Trust organisations. Many of the National Trust places have brown signs and started appearing on our website as we expanded the destinations over the years.
Some National Trust places do not have a brown sign associated with them, so they are not included in the maps or listed with the brown sign destinations.
National Trust Queensland
The National Trust of Australia (Queensland) is a not-for-profit organisation, established in 1963 as a member-based charity. In 2014, it became a public company.
National Trust Queensland Brown Signs
Brennan and Geraghty’s Store Museum (Historic Store)
Grandchester Railway Station (Historic Railway Station)
Hou Wang Chinese Temple and Museum (Atherton Chinatown)
Royal Bull’s Head Inn (Historic Place)
Wolston Farmhouse
Other National Trust Queensland Places
- Harris House in Toowoomba – tenanted, not open for viewing
- James Cook Museum
- Stock Exchange Building and Arcade in Charters Towers
- Zara Clark Museum in Charters Towers
National Trust New South Wales
The National Trust was started in NSW by Annie Wyatt, with a determination to preserve natural and man-made sites of beauty or historic significance in Sydney.
National Trust NSW Brown Signs
Cooma Cottage Heritage House – home of the first Australian-born explorer
Dundullimal Homestead – oldest surviving slab house in Australia
Everglades House & Gardens (Everglades Gardens) – Art Deco house with inter-war period designed gardens
Harpers Mansion – 19th century mansion in Berrima
Norman Lindsay Gallery – former home of Lindsay showcasing his many paintings and sculptures
Tomago House (Historic Tomago House) – of a Hunter Valley estate with a stone chapel
Other National Trust NSW Places
- Experiment Farm Cottage – site of Australia’s first land grant
- Golden Vale Homestead – rural homestead with sandstone house
- Grossmann & Brough House – collection of 19th century costumes and textiles
- Lindesay – harbourside mansion from the 1830s
- Miss Porter’s House – early 1900s house filled with 1900 to 1940s furnishing and belongings
- Miss Traill’s House – Victorian era bungalow left to the National Trust in the 1970s
- National Trust Centre – military hospital and state school, now the NSW branch National Trust headquarters
- Old Government House – convict-built Georgian house and surrounds
- Retford Park – heritage parklands in the Southern Highlands
- Riversdale – estate with rich history, inns and schools
- S.H. Ervin Gallery – gallery dedicated to Australian art
- S.H.P. Memorial School of Arts – first museum in the National Trust, devoted to Sir Henry Parkes
- Saumarez Homestead – two story 30 room Edwardian mansion
- Saumarez Homestead Gardens – 4.4 acres of gardens in nine distinct areas
- Vienna Cottage – late 19th century artisan’s cottage
- Woodford Academy – oldest complex of buildings in the Blue Mountains
