Vienna, Hunters Hill, Historic cottage in Hunters Hill, Australia

Vienna is a four-room stone cottage with a gabled roof and front and back verandahs, set on a rectangular block at 38–40 Alexandra Street with a small front garden and a long rear garden holding a remnant orchard. The adjoining lot at 40 Alexandra Street was never built on and still contains the old, now-covered well.

Vienna was built in 1871 for John Jacob Hellman, a shoemaker from Hamburg, and his Irish wife Ann, on land bought in 1866. Known as Carrum Carrum until the 1920s, it was later called Subiaco and, from the 1930s, Vienna. The National Trust of Australia (NSW) purchased it in 1984, and it joined the State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

The cottage's names record its past: Carrum Carrum until the 1920s, Subiaco in 1924, and Vienna since the 1930s. Its builder, shoemaker John Jacob Hellman, also ran a dairy and orchard and was lamp lighter of the Borough of Hunter's Hill in the early 1880s.

The cottage sits in a residential area connected by walking paths and is easy to reach while exploring Hunters Hill. Check ahead whether viewing is available, as this is a protected heritage property with limited public access.

The lot at 40 Alexandra Street, part of the 1859 Joubert subdivision, was never built on and long served as the Hellman family orchard, with oranges, mandarins, lemons, plums, quinces, pomegranates and guavas. The old well that supplied the cottage still lies beneath this ground, now covered over.