Buildings of Interest: The House of Oskar Speck
In 1952 much of the area of the heights above Killcare, not suitable for farmland but commanding magnificent views over Brisbane Water and the Pacific, consisted of steep rocky bushland generally considered unsuitable for building. Levelling in some cases was possible only by hand using shovels and wheelbarrows.

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This did not faze the German-born opal merchant Oskar Speck when he purchased several acres off the now Scenic Road and designed and built what the Australian Women’s Weekly described in the House of the Week feature in 1968 as “a haven for an adventurous traveller.” Read full article >