Mountain magnificence
When Boston Global investment group founder and executive chairman Bill Moss and his wife, Lata, went looking for a weekend retreat in 2003, they unsuccessfully scoured the eastern seaboard from Tasmania to the NSW central coast. Then a friend suggested they look at a property in the Heritage-listed village of Mount Wilson, perched on the highest land in the tiny village that’s famed for its isolation, complete lack of commercialisation, unreliable mobile reception and truly magnificent, historic, park-like gardens.
“We knew we’d found what we were looking for as soon as we drove through the gates,” Lata recalls. “We hadn’t even seen the house and we were sold.”
Mount Wilson was first surveyed in 1868 and named for the then Minister for Lands, John Bowie Wilson. In those days, well-heeled Sydneysiders liked to escape the humidity and mosquitoes of the coast during summer by heading to the Blue Mountains. By 1880, eight houses had been built by the village
