Surrounded by trees and houses, and backing onto a busy road, Edina is invisible unless you know it’s there. This grand building is known today as the Uniting War Memorial Hospital in Waverley – an important rehabilitation hospital. For many of the past 100 years, however, it was better known as an obstetrics hospital, with 33,000 babies having been born there.
So, what’s the story behind the glorious Italianate mansion and the eight-acre estate on which it was located?
Ebenezer and Jeanie Vickery built Edina in 1884 on the site of an earlier house they’d erected around 1860. Located on
