owan homestead is a piece of living history, but there was a time this landmark could've been considered beyond repair. Located in South Australia's Kalangadoo, about 400 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and a half-hour drive from Mt Gambier, the property was built in 1868 by English architect William Allen Crouch, a pioneer in the area and one of the locality's earliest settlers. He designed several homes in the region and built Lowan from red clay bricks made on the property. The township of Allendale East, about 20km from Mt Gambier, was named in Crouch's honour. Lowan, which comes from the Aboriginal word for malleefowl, was his own residence,
