Eulalia, Norman Park, Heritage residence in Norman Park, Australia

Eulalia is a single-storeyed rendered brick house with a hipped slate roof and two rear wings, set on a hill. It faces north with a pedimented entrance porch leading onto a wide verandah that continues around three sides, supported by tapered octagonal timber posts with cast iron balustrades. The main door has leaded glass sidelights and an etched fanlight showing gum leaves, a swallow and a dragonfly.

August Dimper bought 88 acres here in 1860; in 1888 Patrick Real acquired 22 acres of the subdivided land. Real, a barrister admitted at 27 and later a Supreme Court judge, commissioned Brisbane architects John Hall & Sons in 1889, with Morley Whitehead of Ipswich as builder. After Real's death in 1928 the house stood vacant for a decade, and by 1925 most land had been sold, leaving about 2.2 hectares.

The name Eulalia comes from Greek and means 'speaking well of everybody'. From 1965 the Hancocks ran Early Street Historical Village in the grounds, moving other buildings onto the site; it closed in 1998 and most structures were auctioned and relocated.

The property sits at 75 McIlwraith Avenue and is surrounded by well-maintained gardens that showcase a variety of tree species worth observing. Visitors should allow time to explore both the verandahs and gardens thoroughly, as different areas are distributed across the property.

During the late 1920s and 1930s, when the property stood vacant and suffered from vandalism, it earned a reputation locally as 'the haunted house'. This period of abandonment has since been recorded in historical accounts of the area.