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Blundell's Cottage is a five-roomed stone cottage on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, in Canberra, Australia. It was built by George Campbell in about 1858 for his ploughman William Ginn. Ginn lived there with his family until c1870 and then Flora and George Blundell moved in and remained there until about 1920. Flora was a midwife and George a bullock driver for Campbell. After their departure in the 1920s the cottage was planned to be demolished. However Lord William Holford proposed that the cottage be kept as a museum. The National Capital Development Commission renovated the cottage and in 1964 gave it to the Canberra and District Historical Society.
