natural scenery all give it major aesthetic significance. So too does the architectural design and interation of the residence, studio, garden theatre, water features and decorative iron grilles. The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. Everglades has social value for its possible role in initiating what has become the Leura Gardens Festival, and in influencing the development of high- quality cool-climate gardens in the upper Blue Mountains. It also has social value for its status as a much opened and visited private garden, known to the public and visited since publicity and occasional open days in the 1930s, and particularly since the 1960s when the National Trust took over the property and opened it to the public full-time. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. Everglades presents the potential to yield information about the transmission, implementation and dispersal of ideas of the modern movement in relation to both house and garden design, as practised in Europe in the early twentieth century, into Australia. It also presents the potential to yield information on the range of skills and relative contribution of Henri van der Velde, Paul Sorensen and others to a complex, layered place, designed and constructed to high standards of quality, and subject to varying degrees of maintenance and neglect over time. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The house has significance as one of only few buildings attributed to have been designed by Paul Sorensen. It has significance also for the technical design quality of its interiors. The garden has significance as a rare, large, elaborate and relatively intact modernist garden design in NSW, reflecting European tastes and developments of the period. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales. Everglades is representative of a mountain retreat of high design quality illustrating the way of life of its period. It is also representative of a large and elaborate modernist garden design, with building structures of a functionalist style. Gallery See also Australian residential architectural styles Paul Sorensen (landscape gardener) References Bibliography Attribution External links New South Wales State Heritage Register