Beloved bakery rises to the market in quiet city – realestate.com.au

A historic bakery once central in the early Swiss-Italian heritage of Australia and famous for supplying bread per horses and cart, is now on the market, along with an adjacent home.

The aroma of freshly baked bread can be a distant memory, but a milestone centuries old bakery building in the Spa country of Victoria is now offered to buyers who enjoy a challenge.

Believed that it was built around 1892, the Pioneer Bakery van Vanzetta in Hepburn is sold for the first time in its history, along with the adjacent home.

The iconic symmetrical building, which includes the original Dutch oven, was built by Swiss-Italian migrants, the Vanzettas, which the Goldfields region served with freshly baked products.

Bread was delivered via horse and cart to Hepburn and surrounding areas of Daylesford, Mount Franklin and Yandoit.

“They have maintained the local community for many years,” said Makelaar Katie Minchinton, who handles the sale. “They were eating uber before uber eats,

After generations in the same family, the 880m² site is now offered with a guide of $ 580,000.

The property includes an adjacent house that is needed to renovate. Photo: realestate.com.au/buy

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Protected by an overlay from a local government, the real estate is ripe for renovation for those who are ready to re -imagine the monument.

“The power is on, there is hot running water, but it is very rough,” said Mrs. Minchinton.

“It would be a great chance of hospitality to restore and bake that beautiful Dutch oven again. The front of the building is a real iconic building design in Hepburn that is very popular. There is a lot of land and space to develop further.”

The bakery and the house are on an 880m² block with a reach for further development. Photo: realestate.com.au/buy

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Mrs. Minchinton pointed to the restoration of the nearby old Macaroni factory, another beloved Italian heritage behavior that is now being converted into an events location.

“There has been a lot of interest in embracing the history of buildings and lifestyle in Central Victoria.”

Original ovens remain in place in the old bakery. Photo: realestate.com.au/buy

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The Vanzetta family arrived in Australia in the late 1880s from Italian -speaking Swiss canton Ticino, according to the great Italian -speaking community in Daylesford, according to researcher Bridget Rachel Carlson.

Ferdinando Vanzetta was a baker, soon accompanied by his younger brother Osvaldo, who supplies bread to the locals and the Daylesford Hospital.

The most important bakers were accompanied by younger family members who gradually took more responsibility.

The decor of the attached house is a throwback for yore. Photo: realestate.com.au/buy

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The company became known as the Pioneer Bakery and flourished when the Tourist Industry of Daylesford grew. At Christmas, local children enjoyed watching Ferdinando’s wife Luisa making fruit cookies in a large washing pool in the back garden.

“The pioneer bakery became a central point of Hepburn, which not only served Italian speakers, but also many other members of the community,” Mrs. Carlson written In its Victoria University thesis from 1997.

Bread was supplied by horse and cart to residents and companies in the Goldfields district. Photo: realestate.com.au/buy

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After Ferdinando and Osvaldo died, the bakery remained with the children of Ferdinando, leaving the Vanzetta name alive over more than 28 great -grandchildren. It stopped active in the 1970s.

Mrs. Carlson said that the Vanzettas were a few families who had successfully transplanted from Swiss Italian villages into colonial Victoria, laid the foundation for a culturally more diverse Australia.

“The Italian-speaking settlers of the nineteenth-century Daylesford were among the first large group of non-English speakers to dispute the prevailing Anglo-Centricism, to help the way to the multicultural future of Australia,” she wrote.