This was the home of Joseph Bosisto, the creator of ‘Bosisto’s Parrot Brand Eucalyptus Oil’.Bosisto was the mayor of Richmond in 1864 and 1865, and represented Richmond in the Victorian Parliament. Melbourne newspaper Table Talk said of Joseph Bosisto in 1894; ‘Roughly speaking, every man, woman and child in the city of Richmond knows, or has heard of, Mr Joseph Bosisto. The young have heard of his eucalyptus oil when they suffered from infantile croup, and the old have found in it a balm in the sorrows of rheumatism and asthma. For a couple of generations, he has been known in nearly every house in Richmond where there has been illness of any sort, […] he has been the great medicine man of the place.’ The house is graded as Individually Significant under Heritage Overlay 315.
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