The People Behind the Mary Street Door
Quartz Harbour has been a two-room house on Mary Street since 1994 — dinner out front, cards through the back curtain, and the same family keeping both.
Mary Street Has Always Counted Something
Mary Street ran busy from the first gold finds nearby, and the building at number fifty-eight did the counting: wool bales in, gold receipts out, a ledger kept straight by whoever sat behind the front counter.
We took the lease over in 1994 and kept the counter, though these days it counts dinner covers instead of gold dust — Quartz Harbour still faces Mary Street the way the old agency did, verandah first.
Neighbours on either side have changed twice over the years; the building itself, and the habit of keeping careful count, has not.
1880s
The office was built to weigh and record goods off the Mary Valley wagons.
Family Run
Two generations of the same family have kept the doors since 1994.
Same Counter
The original timber counter still stands, now used for supper orders.
What Guests Ask About Us
Are you related to the family who ran the old agency?
No — we bought the lease in 1994 and simply kept the building's habits, not its ownership.
Do you cook every night you're open?
Yes, the kitchen runs every open night, Wednesday to Monday, right through to the last supper order.
Is the card room the main business, or the restaurant?
Neither leads — we run them as one house, on the level, side by side.