Huntington Hall house and billiard room, Beach Street, Emu Plains

Western view of Huntington Hall. The house was built around 1850 by grazier George Tailby and was called Tailby Hall. In 1880 NSW Premier Sir George Dibbs rented the property and renamed the house Riverside. He left Riverside in 1895. It would then be leased to Frederick Wilshire, Penrith's Police magistrate and then Gustav Klaeby. In 1908 the Tailby family sold the property to John Western Tremain and his wife Florence Rose. It was the Tremain family who renamed the property Huntington Hall. ln 1933 Malcolm Niccol leased the property and opened it as a holiday guesthouse, later purchasing the property in 1936. The guesthouse closed in the early 1950s.