Cuppacumbalong Homestead

Cuppacumbalong is a historic homestead near the southern outskirts of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, at the junction of the Murrumbidgee and Gudgenby rivers; its name comes from an Aboriginal term meaning meeting of the waters. James Wright established the first homestead on the roughly 4,000-acre property in 1839, and the present homestead building dates to 1923, built by the de Salis family in the Inter-War California Bungalow style, a relatively rare and largely intact example of that style in the territory. The three surviving homestead structures, built successively by the Wright, de Salis and Snow families, are on the Australian Capital Territory Heritage Register, and the site also contains a family cemetery and significant archaeological remains; the buildings have been offered for short-term tourist rental since a 2003 bushfire closed an earlier craft centre and restaurant there.