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SHI Number City of Sydney Heritage Database 2431109 Heritage Inventory Report

Item Name: Lord Raglan Hotel

Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

Address: 12 Henderson Road DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Alexandria 2015 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Address: Henderson Road & Wyndham St Corner DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Alexandria 2015 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names:

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Hotel Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The Lord Raglan Hotel has local historic, social and aesthetic significance as one of four Significance: Late Federation and Interwar era hotels in the immediate area. The site has been the location of a hotel from the late nineteenth century onwards. Hotels are an important part of the fabric of this mixed residential and light industrial area.

The Lord Raglan Hotel has historic significance as one of a large group of Sydney hotels owned and rebuilt by Tooths & Co. during the Interwar period. Along with rival brewery, Tooheys, Tooths & Co. dominated the Sydney hotel trade during the interwar period. The hotel is typical of the standard of building constructed by Tooths & Co. at this time.

Designed by Sydney architect Sidney Warden, F.I.A, and constructed c.1924, the existing hotel building has aesthetic significance as a representative example of a modest, yet handsome, two storey Interwar Stripped Classical Style building. The building contributes to the streetscape by virtue of its architectural style, corner location and relationship to nearby hotels of a similar period. While the first floor elevation is highly intact, the ground floor has been substantially altered.

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Item Name: Lord Raglan Hotel

Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

The Lord Raglan Hotel stands on land once occupied by the Cadigal people, whose territory extended from Sydney Cove to the southern side of Port Jackson and south to modern day Petersham.

The subject property is located upon on land grant made to William Hutchinson on 23 May, 1823 and known as the Waterloo Estate. In 1825, Hutchinson sold this land to the business partnership of Daniel Cooper and Solomon Levey for £2,700. The main feature of the area at this time was its extensive swamps, the most important being the Waterloo Swamp on the east of what later became Botany Road and Shea’s Creek Swamp to the west. Prior to intervention, the area was prone to flooding and persistent marshy conditions. While this did not discourage farming, it did little to promote permanent development. Botany Road (1821) would remain the only main road through the area for some time to come. Cooper and Levey also acquired the adjoining Mount Lachlan Estate of 185 acres in 1829. Combined, the two estates created what was known as Waterloo Estate or the Cooper Estate, given that it was solely acquired by Daniel Cooper following Levey’s death in 1833. By these means, most of the area now Alexandria, Waterloo, Zetland and Rosebery became, and remained for much of the nineteenth century, the property of a single owner.

Under the terms of Daniel Cooper’s will, the Waterloo and Mount Lachlan Estates were transferred to William Charles Cooper (later Sir William), the second son of his principal heir, Daniel Cooper the Younger. The Estate was held in trust until William came of age in October 1872. During the 1850s, the trustees began offering 99 year leases (with building covenants) for a nominal ground rent. In 1858, the area became part of the newly incorporated Municipality of Redfern. Two years later, the area was separated to create the Borough of Waterloo. Eight years later, it was split into Boroughs of Waterloo and Alexandria. This spilt deprived the Borough of half its former lands and population and hence rates.

Political upheavals aside, improved transportation into the area acted as a stimulant for local development. From 1868 a system of horse drawn omnibuses operated as far as

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Alexandria; trams began operation twenty years later. Local industries, such as the Waterloo and Buckland Mills, Alderson’s Woolwash, Forsythe’s Ropeworks and numerous brickworks opened, providing important employment opportunities for the Sydney worker who typically lived close to his/her place of work.

The most significant feature of the Cooper’s long period of ownership of the Waterloo and Lachlan Estates was that very little of the area was disposed of by sale. The practice of granting 99 year leases continued into the 1880s, after William Charles Cooper had acquired full control of his estate (1872). By the 1880s, the Waterloo Estate had undergone substantial changes. The water reserves had largely dried up, the original vegetation had been removed and the ground had been scoured by fire. The whole area had been ‘ converted from a great sponge’ to a ‘tract of barren sand hills.’

Waterloo began to developed in earnest during the closing decades of the nineteenth century. With the exception of ribbon development along Botany Road, for most of the nineteenth century, residential occupation of was concentrated on the northern part of the estate, south of Redfern. In addition to the official leases, the practice of squatting was widespread. The area was well known for its Chinese market gardens, with gardens appearing in Wyndham Road, Buckland Street and Garden Street in the Sands Directories of the 1870s and 1880s. Paradoxically, noxious industries, such as fell mongering, also appeared in the latter part of the century.

The sale of small sections of the Waterloo Estate began in the 1880s and continued through into the twentieth century. Waterloo was actively promoted as a suburb for the ‘working man.’ The small residential subdivisions of the mid 1880s (lease and freehold) included Beaconsfield, Hill View, Chester, Waterloo freehold and Waterloo suburb Estates. Most of these subdivisions were located near (or on) Botany Road.

Early maps and plans include Henderson Road as part of Raglan Street. When the street name was changed is not known. The street, and later the hotel, were most likely named for James Henry Somerset FitzRoy, Lord Raglan (1788-1855), who gave the order that lead to the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War (1854-56).

The existing Lord Raglan Hotel is not the first building to be located on the site. While it is difficult to identify the site in municipal rate records of the late nineteenth century, the Metropolitan Detail Series plan of 1895 indicates the presence of a hotel, also called the Lord Raglan Hotel, on the site at this time (Figure 1). This hotel is described in the first clearly identifiable rate record for the property (for the year ending February 1904) as a ‘ brick hotel’. The Lord Raglan Hotel is not, however, listed in John Sands Suburban Directories until 1901. There are no known photographs of this building.

At an unknown time, one of Sydney’s largest breweries, Tooth & Co., acquired an interest in (and later the freehold) for the Lord Raglan Hotel. Tooth & Co. Street Card records for the hotel start in the 1920s. The Alexandria Rate Books, however, indicate that they were the lessee from the Cooper Estate from at least 1904. Tooth & Co. had been founded in 1835 by John Tooth and his brother-in-law Charles Newman. The Company remained a separate entity (with the addition of Resches in 1929) until acquired by Carlton and United Breweries in 1983. The Lord Raglan Hotel was operated by sub-leases or managed by a licensee for

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the Company and remained in their ownership until at least the late 1960s. The hotel was one of numerous hotels that Tooth & Co. owned or leased in the Sydney area. Between 1898 and 1940, Tooths & Co. and their rival, Tooheys, acquired the freeholds of hundreds of pubs, largely taking control of the liquor trade in Sydney.

Surviving correspondence from the Tooth Company records indicates that the Lord Raglan Hotel was rebuilt around 1924. In this year the architect Sidney Warden wrote of a proposal for an

‘..entirely new Building consisting of two stories..The building will be constructed of brick throughout. The elevations will have O.K. (sic) brick facings relieved with cement cornices, balcony and ornament etc. A suspended awning is to be erected over the footpath to the full extent in Wyndham Street and to the Private Entrance in Henderson Road, and a tiled dado will be formed under the awning...The Public Bar will be modernly appointed with suspended canopy..and the whole of the building to be finished in a first class manner..To erect by building according to my sketch plan would cost approximately eight thousand pounds (£8,000).’

Warden later notes that the new building will cover more of the site than the earlier one. Plans held by the State Archives (Liquor Licensing Board, Plans 69564 and 69565) may well be Warden’s plans for the hotel.

Warden’s practice concentrated on the design of hotel buildings in a variety of styles. In 1941 Warden designed the County Clare Hotel for Tooth & Co in 1941, a fine example of the Interwar Functionalist Style which still stands on Broadway. Warden also designed the Royal Hotel, on the corner of Queen Street and Auburn Road in Auburn (c.1940s), this time in the P & O. Style. The Lord Raglan Hotel provides a modest example of the Interwar Stripped Classical Style. The finest examples of this style of architecture are provided by the government buildings constructed in Canberra during the interwar period, including the Provisional Parliament House (Old Parliament House). An example of a hotel in the City of Sydney also built in this style is provided by the Bat and Ball Hotel, on the corner of Cleveland and South Dowling Street. This building is listed as a heritage item on the LEP.

Seventeen tenders were received for Warden’s proposal (September, 1924) to rebuild the Lord Raglan Hotel. The new building was evidently finished by September 1927, as indicated by a complaint made concerning a leaking parapet. The cost of construction is not known. The building was photographed for the Tooth & Co. Company records in August 1930 (Figure 2) and again in the mid 1940s (Figure 3) At this time, the surrounding area was described as ‘industrial, poor class residential’. A foot print of the building as it stood in 1951 is provided by Figure 4.

A major renovation was carried out in 1956 to plans prepared by the original architect of the building, Sidney Warden. A copy of these plans is held by the City of Sydney Archives. The cost of the new works was placed at £22,034.8.8. The work involved new doors and windows to the ground floor, new doors onto the first floor balcony overlooking Henderson Road and internal alterations (Figure 5).

More recently, at an unknown date, the tiling was redone to the ground floor elevations and

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Item Name: Lord Raglan Hotel

Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

new doors provided. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none) 5. Working Labour (none) 8. Culture Creative endeavour (Cultur (none) 8. Culture Leisure (none) 9. Phases of Life Persons (none)

Designer: Sidney Warden, F.I.A., for Tooth & Company Maker / Builder: W.E. Chidzey (?)

Year Started: Year Completed: 1924 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: The Hotel is located on the south eastern corner of Henderson Road and Wyndham Road. The site is surrounded by light industrial and commercial buildings, with some residential. There are three other hotels of the Late Federation- Interwar periods within close proximity. Wyndham Road and Henderson Road carry high traffic volumes.

Exterior: Two storey face brick building with rendered details. The ground floor to both street frontages is tiled (modern tiles) and has modern aluminium framed doors and windows. This part of the elevation is protected by a suspended awning. At first floor level, the elevation continues into a high parapet with a rendered cornice and, at ceiling height, a wide and rendered cornice supported by closely spaced corbel brackets. At the centre of the northern elevation (to Henderson Street) is a rendered panel, corresponding to a recessed verandah. The panel continues into the parapet and rises above it in a stepped line. The inset verandah has a concrete railing. Rendering is also used to define the corners of the first floor. There are two symmetrically spaced double hung (multi-pane) windows to each side of the verandah. The side elevation to Wyndham Street is shorter and simpler. It contains four evenly spaced double hung timber windows.

Interior: Not examined. Main bar, ground floor, refitted.

Physical Condition: Good

Modification Dates: From Council records: + Alterations and small extension to existing building by Sidney Warden (three separate applications made in1956). Tooth & Co. records indicate that the total cost of these works was £22,034/8/8. + Reduce awning (1979).

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Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

+ Fire upgrade (1988). + Alterations to value of $10,000 (1989). Also records for signage, maintenance and installation of eg. refrigeration. Recommended The interior of this hotel was not inspected as part of the assessment process. It is clear that Management: major alterations have taken place to the bars and external elevation at ground floor level. The upper part of the elevation is, however, of high quality and is intact. It relates well to the other hotels of a similar period in the immediate area. On this basis, the Lord Raglan Hotel should be listed as a local heritage item.

The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: Archaeological Potential: not assessed.

Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The Lord Raglan Hotel has local historic, social and aesthetic significance as one of four Late Federation and Interwar era hotels in the immediate area, the others being The Alexandria Hotel, The Abbotts and The Cricketers Arms. The site has been the location of a hotel from the late nineteenth century onwards, with the existing building dating from c.1924. Hotels are an important part of the fabric of this mixed residential and light industrial area. Criteria b) The Lord Raglan Hotel has significance for its long association with Tooths & Co., one of Sydney’s major breweries. The hotel was one of many owned by Tooths & Co. within the Sydney metropolitan area during the period 1890 to 1940. It is among a number of hotels rebuilt by the brewery during the interwar period.

The Lord Raglan Hotel has significance under this criterion for its association with the architect Sidney Warden. Warden designed hotels in a variety of styles, including P.& O. Style and Interwar Functionalist Style.

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Criteria c) The Stripped Classical detailing of the first floor elevation of the Lord Raglan Hotel makes a positive contribution to Henderson Road and Wyndham Street. Occupying a corner site, it has a natural prominence within an otherwise mixed streetscape. It provides a modest, yet handsome, example of the Interwar Stripped Classical Revival Style. The four hotels within the immediate vicinity- the others being The Alexandria Hotel, The Abbotts and The Cricketers Arms (listed as an item by South Sydney LEP 1998)- form an interesting group of Late Federation and Interwar era hotel buildings.

The modern tiling and doors to the ground floor detract from the appearance of the building and have a negative impact. Criteria d) Local hotels of long standing frequently have social significance as meeting places.

Criteria e) The Lord Raglan Hotel has significance as an example of the Interwar Stripped Classical Style. This relates to the first floor (exterior) only. The ground floor elevations have been extensively altered; the modern tiling and doors have a negative heritage impact.

Criteria f) The Lord Raglan is not significant under this criterion. Criteria g) The Lord Raglan Hotel is representative of a modest yet handsome Interwar era hotel of the type and standard built by Tooths & Co. throughout the Sydney suburbs at this time. Integrity / Intactness: The Lord Raglan Hotel displays a mixed degree of integrity. While the basic form and external appearance of the hotel remained unaltered, the 1956 works were quite extensive. These alterations were, however, designed by the original architect for the building. In more recent times, the front walls have been retiled, the doors changed and the bar refitted. This has had a negative impact on the external presentation of the ground floor of the hotel as an Interwar hotel.

References: Author Title Year Sydney Civic Survey, Zetland, Frame 19 (27) 1951 NSW Lands Department Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series, Waterloo Section 8 1895 Tooth & Co. Tooth & Co. Company Records: Yellow Series: Lord Raglan Hotel Warden, Sidney Alterations and additions to the Lord Raglan Hotel, Corner 1956 Henderson Road and Wyndham Street, Alexandria

Studies:

Parcels: Parcel Code LotNumber Section Plan Code Plan Number

LOT 11 DP 814831

Latitude: Longitude: Location validity: Spatial Accuracy: Map Name: Map Scale: AMG Zone: Easting: Northing:

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Image/s:

Caption: Figure 1: NSW Lands Department, Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series, Waterloo Section 8, 1895. Copyright: Image by: Mitchell Library Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431109a.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Image/s:

Caption: Figure 2: Lord Raglan Hotel, August 1930. Tooth & Co. Company Archives, NBAC. Copyright: Image by: Tooth & Co. Company Archives Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431109b.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Image/s:

Caption: Figure 3: The Lord Raglan, 194? Tooth & Co. Company Records, NBAC. Copyright: Image by: Tooth & Co. Company Records Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431109c.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Item Name: Lord Raglan Hotel

Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

Image/s:

Caption: Figure 4: Detail of Sydney Civic Survey, Zetland, 1951 (Frame 19(27)). Copyright: Image by: Mitchell Library Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431109d.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Item Name: Lord Raglan Hotel

Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

Image/s:

Caption: Figure 5: Sidney Warden, Alterations and Additions to the Lord Raglan Hotel, corner Henderson Road and Wyndham Street, Alexandria, April 1956. Floor plans are available as part of this record set. Copyright: Image by: City of Sydney Archives Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431109e.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Item Name: Lord Raglan Hotel

Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

Image/s:

Caption: Figure 6: The Lord Raglan Hotel, undated. Tooths & Co. Company Records, NBAC. Copyright: Image by: Tooths & Co. Company Records Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431109f.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Item Name: Lord Raglan Hotel

Location: 12 Henderson Road, Alexandria [Sydney City]

Image/s:

Caption: Photograph 1: The Lord Raglan Hotel from Henderson Road. Copyright: Image by: James Phillips Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431109g.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Item Name: Australian College of Make Up and Special Effects

Location: 5 The Crescent, Annandale [Sydney City]

Address: 5 The Crescent DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Annandale 2038 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Latex Products Pty Ltd; Electronic Industries Limited

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner: Local Government

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Australian College of Make Up and Special Effects; Security Storage Former Uses: Factory

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale has local historic significance. The site forms part of a local Significance: pattern of mixed residential and light industrial development. During the 1920s and 1930s, the site was the location of one of the many local furniture companies. After this time, it has an association with ‘modern industries’ such as the application of latex in manufactory and electronics.

The existing building, c.1940s, has historic and aesthetic significance as a building most likely constructed during a period of strict building restrictions brought about by World War II. The wartime need for the items produced by the then owners, Latex Products Pty Ltd, would have made construction possible. Evidence indicates that the company were engaged in making and or testing 16 foot rubber rafts around this time.

No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale, has local aesthetic significance as a fine example of the Interwar Functionalist Style. The building is carefully considered and displays the influence of the ‘new architecture’ of the period, in particularly that of the Dutch architect Willem Dudock. The basic form of the main building on the site is intact and makes a positive contribution to the mixed streetscape in which it is located. It is one of a small number of examples of the restrained Functionalist Style building built c.1940s within the Sydney area. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this

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was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

The western foreshores of Rozelle Bay were part of a 290 acre grant made on 8 October, 1799 to Captain George Johnston of the NSW Corps and known as Annandale. The Annandale Estate would remain intact and occupied by the Johnston family until subdivided in 1876. Part of the subject site is located upon this grant.

The remainder of the site is located on reclaimed land. The noxious industries that had established themselves on the foreshores of Blackwattle Bay during the 1830s were steadily removed from the area from the 1860s onwards. During the 1870s work began on the reclamation of Blackwattle Bay using silt deposits dredged from the harbour, household rubbish, rubble from building sites, quarry spoils and other excavation material. The construction of dykes and sea walls, the first in the 1870s, formed an essential component of the work. Jubilee and Federal Park, to the east of the subject site, were created by the further infilling of land around Johnston’s Creek in the early 1900s. As a result of these works, the shoreline of Rozelle Bay was dramatically altered (Figures 1 and 2). The remainder of the site is part of Portion 389 of the Municipality of Annandale, Parish of Petersham) granted by Crown Grant to the Sydney Freehold Land Building and Investment Company on 17 July, 1903. While nothing is known about this Company, a late nineteenth century plan, Figure 1, indicates that they owned substantial property in North Annandale at this time.

By the early 1890s, part of The Crescent had been formed and a steam tram line laid along the modern day alignment of the street to service the densely populated suburb of Balmain (Figure 1). A considerable part of the Balmain line was laid ‘railway style’, that is, on a separate formation to the road. The line opened in 1892. Two years later, in 1894, the subject property became part of the newly declared Borough of Annandale (later, Municipality (1897)). The new Borough was 336 acres in size and was bounded by Parramatta Road, Johnston’s Creek and White’s Creek. Initially part of the Municipality of Leichhardt (declared 1871), the 5,000 strong population of the new Borough had moved for the creation of a separate municipality at this time because they considered that they received too little benefit for their rates and carried to great a share of the liabilities. Annandale would remain a separate municipality until 1949, when it re-merged with Leichhardt. Parts of the Municipality were later transferred to the City of Sydney.

The Crescent, Annandale was first listed in John Sands Suburban Directories in 1898. There were four listing in this year, being for the Annandale Wharf (Annandale Co-operative Penny

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Ferry Company) and three timber merchants. Over the following 20 years, Blackwattle Bay and Rozelle Bay would come to be dominated by timber yards.

Around 1911, the subject property was transferred from the Sydney Freehold Ltd Building and Investment Company to Glebe Point auctioneer, Henry David Elliott. The property was part of a larger parcel of land at this time referred to as Lots 3 to 8 (inclusive) and Lots 10 to 13 of Section L, DP 5117 (Figure 3). In February 1919, the land was transferred to O.K. Elliott’s Limited. Four years later, in November 1923, a lease was granted to Forest Lodge builder Charles John Wilcox Hackney. Part of the property was resumed in August 1924. The remaining land was now one acre, thirtynine and three quarter perches in size (Figure 3).

It is difficult to identify the subject property in John Sands Directories in the period to the late 1920s. Neither Elliott, O.K. Elliott’s or Hackney are listed under The Crescent during these years. The first listing for ‘Eliot’s (sic) O.K. Ltd’ on The Crescent, between Nelson and Trafalgar Streets, occurs in 1928. The premises are identified as a furniture factory. The style and materials (most notably the steel framed windows) of the existing main building on the site, however, are not indicative of the 1920s nor suggestive of a furniture factory. It may be that there was an earlier building/ factory on the site or that the Interwar Functionalist Style front was later added to an earlier building.

By the late 1920s and early 1930s, The Crescent was decidedly mixed residential (southern side) and light industrial (northern side) in character. On the northern side, between Johnston and Nelson Streets could be found in 1931: W. Smith, joinery works; Kolts and Lawler, timber merchants; (off) Langdon’s Wharf ; A.N. Thomson & Co., cabinet manufacturers; Elliott’s, O.K, furniture factory; Turner and Loveridge, builders; and Murray Bros. Ltd, storage yard. No street numbers were allocated to properties on the northern side of the street at this time.

Elliott’s, O.K, Furniture Factory is listed in the last Sands Directory of 1932-3. By the early 1930s industry was well established in Annandale and would grow over the ensuring years. In 1932 there were 69 identifiable industrial entities. The most numerous firms were furniture makers, joinery, box and packing case workshops, piano tuners, small engineering works and dye works. The best known of the Annandale factories of this era was Beale’s Piano Factory in nearby Trafalgar Street. Industry continued to expand; by 1944-5, there would be 175 factories in Annandale, employing 4,235 workers.

Part of the subject site, Lots 6, 7 and part of Lot 8, were sold by O.K. Elliott’s Limited in April, 1937. The residue of land, being two roods and eight and one half perches, is illustrated by Figure 5. This land, including the subject property, was transferred to Latex Products Pty Ltd on 18 June, 1943.

The existing building on the site most likely dates from the early to mid 1940s. Alternatively, the Interwar Functionalist Style front may have been added to an earlier factory building at this time. If so, it would have been subject to wartime building restrictions, introduced in November 1940 and tightened in early 1942. After 1942, Latex Products would have required the specific permission of the Government to construct this type of building. Given the usefulness of their product to the prosecution of the war, they would have meet a

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favourable reception. Records in the National Archives indicate that 16 foot boats were being constructed/tested by ‘Latex Products Pty Ltd’ in 1943. Other local Annandale factories were similarly involved in the war effort. Beales Piano Factory, for example, was used by de Havilland to construct and paint fuselages for Mosquito aeroplanes. The only other record relating to the activities of this company is a reference in City of Sydney records to ‘Latex Products Ltd’ supplying and fitting 660 theatre chairs and 56 folding chairs for the City Town Hall in 1937.

Stylistically, the existing building provides an example of the Interwar Functionalist Style. Characteristics of the style include: clean building lines, asymmetrical massing, simple geometric shapes, roof concealed by a parapet, cantilevered balcony or hood, rounded corner and horizontal banding. Buildings in this style and of a comparable standard were also constructed at the Garden Island Naval Base (Sydney) during World War II.

Part of the purpose of the modern movement of the 1920s and 1930s was to demonstrate the way to a new and better world through a disassociation with the past. The existing building demonstrates the influence of the Dutch architect Willem Dudock. Harry Rembert of the New South Wales Government Architects Office, who produced number of notable public buildings following the lead of Dudock, including the Technical College School of Automotive Engineering, summed up the purpose of the ‘new architecture’ as follows:

‘The new architecture...(is) developed from the needs of our time, it relies upon requirements which might be applied to any work of art.. complete simplicity, structural honesty, beauty and fitness of purpose. The slavish copying of unsuitable historic styles is no longer acceptable when this test is applied..

We, as a nation, have shown we are endowed with characteristics of self reliance, originality and initiative..’

The subject property was transferred to Electronic Industries Limited in 1958. Glebe Council building records indicate that alterations and additions were carried out between 1958-61.

The property was transferred to Goodacre Development Pty Ltd in 1973. AGL leased the ground floor of the building in 1987 for five years. In the same year, Winbay Pty Ltd leased the first floor for three years.

Since the 1970s, many of the former manufacturing industries in Annandale have relocated out of the area.

The property was transferred to Leichhardt Council in 1994. In 1997, part of the property was leased to Security Storage Pty Ltd.

Following a change in municipal boundaries, the property is now owned by the City of Sydney. The building is currently (March 2006) occupied by the College of Make Up and Special Effects and by Security Self Storage. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme

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Location: 5 The Crescent, Annandale [Sydney City]

3. Economy Industry (none) 3. Economy Technology (none) 5. Working Labour (none) 8. Culture Creative endeavour (Cultur (none)

Designer: Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1940 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: Context: Mixed low rise residential (including Late Victorian period terraces), commercial and light industrial.

Exterior: The building presents to the street as a rendered and painted two-three storey Interwar Functionalist Style building with Art Deco overtones. The exterior tiling to some sections has also been painted. Behind the front rendered section, construction materials vary.

The building turns the corner of The Crescent and is located on the street boundary of the property. The elevation is articulated to form a deliberate composition. A parapet with protruding cap conceals the roof form. The main feature is a three storey tower which contains a stairwell. The tower features a long, narrow, multipaned steel framed window and a series of porthole windows arranged vertically. A vertical fin, with flag pole, rises above the parapet roof of the tower to one side.

The main entrance lies near the tower section under a cantilevered concrete awning which continues along the elevation and is repeated as the cap to the parapet. The western end of the elevation is characterised by large steel framed windows (six pane) with fixed and pivot sash windows. The eastern section comprises blind windows and unrelieved rendered walls.

Behind the main elevation of the building, construction materials and forms are functional in style; materials include corrugated asbestos roofing.

Interior: Only the foyer was inspected. This has a terrazzo floor and stairwell with a simple Art Deco Style steel balustrade.

Physical Condition: Good

Modification Dates: Glebe Council Street Cards indicate modifications 1958-61 and in the 1980s.

NB: The property is not always easy to identify in this card series.

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Recommended The building should be listed as a local heritage item as a fine example of an Interwar Management: Functionalist Style building.

Further research needs to be carried out. A more sympathetic colour scheme should be encouraged.

The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: Archaeological assessment not carried out.

Further research needs to be carried out into this building. The date suggested above is tentative only. Surviving records for the Municipality of Annandale are held at Kingswood (1894-1948) and have not been examined. How useful these records would be, however, is questionable, given that only the Council Minutes appear to have survived. If the existing building was constructed during World War II it may be noted in these records. Aerial photographs of the area may provide/ confirm the construction date of the building.

Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale has local historic significance. Built partially on land reclaimed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the site is part of a local pattern of mixed residential and light industrial development. During the 1920s and 1930s, the site was the location of one of the many local furniture companies. After this time, it has an association with ‘modern industries’ such as latex and electronics.

The existing building, c.1940s, has historic significance as a probable war time building. Most likely built during a period of strict building restrictions, the usefulness of the products being produced by the then owners, Latex Products Pty Ltd, would have made construction possible.

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Criteria b) No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale is not significant under this criterion. Little or no information about the various companies known to have occupied the site has been found. Most of these companies no longer exist or have been amalgamated into others.

Criteria c) No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale, has local aesthetic significance as an example of the Interwar Functionalist Style. The basic form of the main building on the site is intact and contributes to the mixed streetscape in which it is located. The existing colour scheme detracts from is appearance. Criteria d) No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale is not significant under this criterion.

Criteria e) No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale has the potential to reveal information about the Interwar Functionalist Style.

NB: Interior not accessed.

Criteria f) No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale is not significant under this criteria. It is one of number of examples of buildings of this type within the Sydney area. Criteria g) No. 5 The Crescent, Annandale provides a representative example of the Interwar Functionalist Style. Integrity / Intactness: The basic form of the main building to the front of the site would appear to be intact. Council records indicate alterations and additions 1958-1961.

NB: Interior not examined.

References: Author Title Year Burke, David Juggernaut! A Story of Sydney in the Wild Days of the 1997 Steam Trams Higinbotham and Robinson Plan of North Annandale, Municipality of Leichhardt the 1893 Property of Sydney Freehold Land Building and Investment Company Leichhardt Municipal Council Planning Cards: The Crescent NSW Lands Department Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series, Leichhardt, Section 8 1893 Solling, Max and Reynolds, Peter Leichhardt: On the Margins of the City 1997

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Item Name: Louise Apartments

Location: 140-142 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

Address: 140-142 Liverpool Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Darlinghurst 2010 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Item Type: Built Group: Residential buildings Category: Flat Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Retailing, residential Former Uses: Bank; retailing, manufacturing, residential, commercial

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of Louise Apartments may be a rare example of a purpose designed bank building that Significance: originally incorporated separate tenanted residential accommodation and also a rare early example of a building containing purpose designed flats in this part of the City of Sydney. The building is thought to provide evidence of changing patterns of tenure and use in the wake of resumptions and road widening in the area. A substantial amount of residential accommodation was lost as a result of demolition along the northern side of Oxford Street.

The upper section of the Liverpool Street façade, which has retained a relatively large amount of original fabric, demonstrates characteristics of the Federation Free Style in a restrained though assured manner and makes an important contribution to the streetscape in terms of its architectural character and ability to suggest historical continuity, especially in relation to adjoining buildings to the east and west.

140-142 Liverpool has some visual associations with buildings in Oxford Street. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but

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there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The site of 140-142 Liverpool Street is part of 100 acres granted to John Palmer on 25 February 1793. However, in terms of the building that presently occupies the site, the role of the Government Savings Bank of NSW is important.

The Government Savings Bank occupied at least part of a three storey building on the corner of College and Liverpool Streets for a number of years during the second decade of the twentieth century. The building was probably been demolished as a result of Council resumption and associated road widening works, and necessitated the Bank searching for a new site. It acquired adjoining properties to the east at the end of 1916 or early in 1917. The application for the construction of the existing building, which was designed for the Commissioners of the Government Savings Bank, was approved by Council on 19 December 1917.

The building as originally designed contained a bank chamber and one residential flat on the ground floor, three flats each on the first and second floors and a laundry at roof level. The prominent and influential architectural firm of H E Ross and Rowe is believed to have designed 150 branch buildings for the Commissioners, but there is insufficient evidence to determine whether 140-142 Liverpool Street was one of them.

The Government Savings Bank sold part of its property to Samuel Goldstein in September 1921. 140-142 Liverpool Street became the property of the Commonwealth Savings Bank in 1931 as a result of the Commonwealth and State Banks Agreements Ratification Act of that year. However, banking functions within the building ceased around 1937, when an application was lodged with Council to construct two shops within the premises. Nevertheless the building remained in the possession of the Commonwealth Savings Bank until February 1950, when it was sold to Arthur and Ethel Grimm, graziers from Lake Cowal, and Elizabeth and Roger Cakebread, graziers from Trahlee. After Elizabeth Cakebread died her share devolved to her husband, then in November 1950 the building was sold to a small consortium consisting of Harry Sebel, Minnie Glick, Tillie Richmond and Phyllis Freeman. The consortium in turn sold it to Mrs Hannelore Tittman and Frank and John Zions in March 1964.

In December 1964 the title was transferred to Ralph and Jessie Haughton, who subsequently transferred it to George Mavromatis in February 1966. In 1977 the building was sold to a company called Denport No 8 Pty Limited, which sold it to Salso Pty Ltd in 1987. The property was converted to Strata Title in 1989. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

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Location: 140-142 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

4. Settlement Accommodation (Housing) (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none)

Designer: Maker / Builder: Beat Bros

Year Started: Year Completed: 1918 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: 140-142 Liverpool Street is a three storey building with a façade that, at first and second floor levels, demonstrates characteristics of the Federation Free Style. They include the use of two principal materials having contrasting colour and texture (in this case brick and stone, although the brickwork has been painted), oriel windows and a parapet that has been designed in a decorative manner. The upper section of the façade is symmetrical, with a wide and plain central area flanked by two storey oriels that appear to have metal skirts and spandrels. The original window sashes have been replaced with metal framed glazing. Decorative stone elements within the parapet, which features a tall central section and raised piers at either side of the façade, include balustrades and a relatively elaborate carved panel at the base of the raised central section. The latter has a simple though bold cornice.

A cantilevered awning that has retained original structural members protects shopfronts below. There is little remaining evidence of original or early fabric at ground floor level externally, although internal fabric associated with circulation spaces within the residential portion of the building has been retained to some extent..

The northern side of the building is partially intact and unusual in that all windows to apartments are contained within rectilinear oriels. Spandrels are lined with fibro or similar, the joints of which are covered with battens. Wall surfaces on the northern, eastern and western elevations are painted brick. The eastern and western elevations are partially set back from the side boundaries to provide light and air to apartments. Although most window joinery has been replaced with metal framed sashes, original timber framed sashes containing leadlight glazing remain in place at ground floor level on the eastern side of the building. The location of stairs is clearly expressed in the configuration of certain windows.

Physical Condition: The building appears to be in good condition.

Modification Dates: The following applications have been made to Council for modifications to the building:

1937: Building application: construction of two shops. 1954: Development application – use shop premises as sandwich shop. 1957: Development applications – use of premises as a dry cleaning agency; use premises as refreshment rooms/coffee lounge.

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1965: Development application – use of premises for repair of shoes and manufacture of surgical footwear; building application – alterations to awning. 1969: Development application –use of premises as dry cleaning agency. 1973: Development application – use of premises for manufacture of clothing and accessories. 1974: Development application – use shop as newsagency 1976: Development application - conversion of the ground floor into a bottle shop/liquor store; building application – new shop and flat 1977: Development application – change of use to doctor’s office Recommended - Consider listing the building as a heritage item in the relevant Local Environment Plan. Its Management: heritage significance would be enhanced by appropriate conservation works, and there do not appear to be other mechanisms that may help protect the building. - All conservation, adaptive reuse and future development should be undertaken in accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter). - A Conservation Management Strategy should be prepared for the entire building to ensure that future change is managed in a coordinated fashion. - Retain and conserve all intact original external and internal building fabric and the external appearance of the building. - Retain and conserve any original awning fabric. - Encourage owners to install appropriate window joinery based on available documentary evidence. - There should be no further additions at roof level. - Detailing of new fabric should respect the integrity and existing character of the building and its original fabric. - All unpainted stone elements within the Liverpool Street façade should remain unpainted. - Encourage owners to remove paint from masonry surfaces of the Liverpool Street façade. - Oriel window skirts and spandrels, as well as rainwater goods, should be painted in a colour (or colours) that are appropriate to the age and architectural character of the building.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building may be an early example of purpose designed residential flats in this part of the City of Sydney. It may also provide evidence of changing patterns of tenure and use in the wake of resumptions and road widening in the area – a substantial amount of residential accommodation was lost as a result of demolition along the northern side of Oxford Street. Criteria b) Th i i ffi i t id t d t i f it ith thi it i State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 4

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Location: 140-142 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City] Criteria b)

Criteria c) The upper section of the Liverpool Street façade demonstrates characteristics of the Federation Free Style in a restrained though assured manner.

The building makes an important contribution to the streetscape in terms of its architectural character and historical continuity, especially in relation to adjoining buildings to the east and west. Criteria d) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria e) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria f) 140 Liverpool Street is thought to be a rare example of a purpose designed bank building incorporating separate tenanted residential accommodation . It may also be a rare early example of a building containing purpose designed flats in this part of the City of Sydney. Criteria g) The upper section of the Liverpool Street façade is representative of the Federation Free Style, of which it is a relatively late example. Integrity / Intactness: The building has retained a relatively large amount of external fabric, although the ground floor section of the façade and window joinery in many openings have all been modified. There is intact early fabric within the ground floor circulation spaces associated with the residential flats, which may also remain on upper levels.

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Item Name: Former City East Telephone Exchange

Location: 320 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

Address: 320 Liverpool Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Darlinghurst 2010 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Barcom Avenue Conservation Area Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Postal and Telecomm Category: Telephone Exchange Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: 2006 - vacant Former Uses: Telephone Exchange

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The City East Telephone Exchange has local aesthetic significance as an example of an Significance: Inter- War Stripped Classical Style building that contributes to the character of the streetscape. It is associated with prominent architect E.H. Henderson, Supervising Architect of the NSW Branch of the Department of Works and Railways who at that time was responsible for the design of Commonwealth buildings in this state. The building is one of only two remaining of the original three in a group of purpose designed main automatic telephone exchanges constructed in Sydney after World War One as part of a replacement program of the ageing City Exchange. It provides insight into the development of telecommunications through out NSW as well as the development of the Sydney area following the end of World War One. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to

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choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The site is part of Block 15 of the New Grant Riley Estate and part of 2 roods and 10.5 perches granted to William Barker on 16 September 1853.

Liverpool Street had been extended east of Victoria Street by 1862. Darwin Terrace was constructed between Victoria Street and Little Surrey Street ( to the immediate west of the site) c 1876. At the time of acqusiton of the site for the original City East Telephone Exchange Building in the early 1920s there were one and two storey houses on the northern Little Surrey Street frontage of the site and two storey shops with residences on the Livepool Street frontage. The 1930s addition was on a site occupied by a two storey Victorian shop and residence, facing Livepool Street with stables fronting Little Surrey Street.

The former City East Telephone Exchange was one of three purpose built telephone exchanges with City South and City North, designed as part of the replacement of the ageing City Exchange in Sydney following the end of World War 1. These automatic telephone exchanges were built to service the growing demand for telephonic services after World War One.

The original drawingsof the City East Telephone Exchange are signed by E. H. Henderson Supervising Architect and the Acting Works Director, James Orwin, dated 9 February 1923. At that time Edward Hubert Henderson was the Supervising Architect of the NSW Branch of the Department of Works and Railways and responsible for the design of Commonwealth buildings in this state. He was under the Chief Architect of the Commonwealth, J.S. Murdoch who was based in Melbourne. When J.S. Murdoch retired in 1928 he was succeeded by E.H. Henderson who was appointed the Principal Chief Architect of the Commonwealth. E.H. Henderson was a prominent architect of the period and according to an article in Building played a large part in the design of many buildings including the City South Telephone Exchange, Commonwealth Banks at Goulburn and Albury, and the former William Street Post Office (Sydney).

In order to meet the demand as a result of the growth of the city and to respond to changes in technology the City South, East and North telephone exchanges, were largely replaced by new telephone exchanges in new buildings in the 1970s. The City North Telephone Exchange building at No 13 Castlereagh Street was demolished and replaced by a new exchange building whilst in the case of both City East and City North, large concrete buildings housing new telephone exchanges were erected on adjoining sites to the existing buildings which were retained and continued to be used by Telstra until quite recently. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Technology (none) 4. Settlement Utilities (none)

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Item Name: Former City East Telephone Exchange

Location: 320 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

Designer: EH Henderson - Supervising Architect Maker / Builder:

Year Started: 1926 Year Completed: 1930 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: The sie t contains a two storey Inter-war Stripped Classical style building, with a part basement level, erected in 1926, and purpose built as the City East Telephone Exchange with an addition on the eastern side in a similar architectural language erected shortly afterwards, c 1930s. It is a steel framed and concrete building with a parapet. A metal roof enclosure was later added over the building which has altered part of the parapet. The building has symmetrical massing with vertical classical proportions and detailing. The facades feature steel framed multi-paned steel windows which are separated by Doric style pilasters. There is a distinctive cornice and a string course at the sill level of the ground floor windows. There is also a suspended awning over the main entrance on Liverpool Street. An original cat head hoist, with loading doors, remains on the western elevation of the building.

The exterior of the building is largely intact although theroof cladding has caused some damage to the original parapet detailing. The exchange equipment has been removed from the original building and it has been fitted out for offices with new partitioning and suspended ceilings.

The 1923 plans show a cable tunnel, switch room and entrance lobby in the basement, a Frame Room, Air Conditioning Room, Battery Room, Power Room, Luncheon Room and toilets on the ground floor and a Switch Room and toilets on the first floor. The plans also show the extensive use of reinforced concrete and of interest are the large free spanning concrete beams at the first floor ceiling level. The hoist with a suspended platform below it shown on the western elevation drawing is still in existence and it enabled machinery and equipment to be hoisted into and out of the building.

Physical Condition: Fair

Modification Dates: 1930s - east addition erected reflecting the architectural language of the original building.

Metal Roof Enclosure, concealing the parapet. It contained storage areas and a switch room which linked to the 1970s Telstra building adjacent. Recommended - That any future development should not adversely impact on the significance of the Management: building and any future use be compatible with its significance; - That the overall form of the former City East Exchange Building be retained and conserved, including the c 1930s addition. The detracting roof enclosure be removed and the original parapet form and detailing be reinstated; - That the external elevations including the fenestration, rendered detail and Doric pilasters State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 3

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should be retained and conserved; - That where intervention of significant fabric is unavoidable any loss of significance should be minimised and confined where possible to areas of lesser significance; - That any new development should not detract from the significance of the place and compromise the facades; and - That any vertical addition should be subservient to the existing building and be adequately setback from the facades and of simple form to enable the existing building to be understood in its own right.

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Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The City East Telephone Exchange was completed in 1926 as one of three main automatic exchanges (with City North and City South) designed as part of the replacement of the ageing City Exchange in Sydney following the end of World War One. In the 1970s a new telephone exchange was built in a new building on the adjacent site to the east of the City East Telephone Exchange replacing its original function. The City East Telephone Exchange provides insight into the development of telecommunications through out NSW as well as the development of the Sydney area following the end of World War One. Criteria b) The City East Telephone Exchange building, designed in 1923, is associated with prominent architect E.H. Henderson, Supervising Architect of the NSW Branch of the Department of Works and Railways who at that time was responsible for the design of commonwealth buildings in this state.

Criteria c) The City East Telephone Exchange has local aesthetic significance as an example of an Inter- War Stripped Classical Style building that contributes to the character of the streetscape. Criteria d) The social significance of the building has not been comprehensively researched. It is likely however that given its original function the former telephone exchange will be of little social significance to the wider community but is likely to be of interest to specialised groups such as the Telstra Historical Society. Criteria e) The purpose built City East Telephone Exchange has the potential to improve our understanding of the development of telephone exchanges and telecommunications with its changing technology in the twentieth century. The 1923 building was designed with the extensive use of reinforced concrete and of interest are the large free spanning concrete beams at the first floor ceiling level.

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Criteria f) of the original three in a group of purpose designed main automatic telephone exchanges constructed in Sydney after World War One as part of a replacement program of the ageing City Exchange. Criteria g) The former City East Telephone Exchange is representative of the work undertaken by the Commonwealth Government’s Department of Works and Railways and by the prominent architect E.H. Henderson, who at that time was the Supervising Architect of the NSW Branch of the Department. It is also a representative example of an Inter- War Stripped Classical Style building purpose built for an institutional purpose, namely an automatic telephone exchange.

Integrity / Intactness: Externally lragely intact except for the detracting roof enclosure

References: Author Title Year Survey of Proposed New Telephone Exchange site at Darlinghurst Building, June 13,1932 1932 Plans of City East Telephone Exchange ( Telegraph), 1923 Series Number SP1107/1 Graham Brooks and Associates Heritage Impact Assessmen-– 320 Liverpool Street, 2005 Darlinghurst, New DA Proposal Graham Brooks and Associates Heritage Impact Assessment- Proposed Residential 2003 Development 320 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, for Charter Hall Australia,

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Item Name: Daniel’s Buildings

Location: 58-72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

Address: 58-72 Oxford Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Darlinghurst 2010 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: 68-70 Oxford Street: Daniel’s Buildings, Darnley Buildings

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Commercial and retail Former Uses: 58-60: Commercial, retail and light manufacturing 62-66: Retailing, restaurant, club rooms, light manufacturing 68-70: light manufacturing, , retailing, cafeteria, coffee lounge, hairdresser 72: commercial, retailing

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of 58-72 Oxford Street is part of the architecturally consistent group of buildings that were the Significance: result of the resumption and widening of Oxford Street between Whitlam and Taylor Squares. The façades of the four buildings, which are representative of Federation Freestyle architecture, make an important contribution to the streetscape.

68-70 Oxford Street: has an association with architect Edwin R Orchard, while 72 Oxford Street: is understood to have been designed by architect George Leslie Grant. Both men were architects of some ability and note. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government

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legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

All of the buildings have remained in the possession of the City of Sydney or South Sydney Council, depending on boundary distribution. It is understood that they occupy the northern sections of what were 72-88 Oxford Street, as well as a laneway and portions of properties to its north, which show on early maps of the areas such as the department of Lands Metropolitan Detail Series. The triangular block bound by Oxford, Crown and Burton Streets was quite dramatically reconfigured as a result of the resumptions and widening of Oxford Street.

The site 58-70 Oxford Street was part of 100 acres granted to Commissary John Palmer on 25 February 1793, and subsequently became part of Block C3 of the Riley Estate and was settled on Alexander Riley. The various allotments comprising the block between Crown and Burton Streets were sold to various individuals from around 1845. By the end of the 1850s the strip along the South Head Road contained a rich mix of small businesses and shops. The properties themselves were owned by a succession of individuals, few of whom seem to have been historically significant. One exception was the owner of 86 Oxford Street, undertaker Charles Kinsela, whose name is still recalled in the premises ant 383 Bourke Street

The properties were all resumed in 1909 by the Municipal Council of Sydney and subsequently developed:

•A building application was lodged with Council for the newly formed 58-60 Oxford Street by the building’s designer, architect Frederick Winn, in September 1911;

•An application for a new building at 62-66 Oxford Street was lodged with Council at the end of September 1912. The building was to be erected for A E Dalwood (who also lodged the application), but the drawings describing the proposal do not include the name of a designer. The façade of the building was rather more elaborate than eventually constructed, although rough amendments to the drawing indicate that the modifications probably took part during the assessment period. About two months later another set of drawings was lodged, prepared by architect George Nye but the proposal also varied in appearance from what was built.

•An application for new premises at 68-70 Oxford Street was lodged by architect Edwin Orchard in October 1912.

•An application for a new three storey building at 72 Oxford Street, designed by architect George Leslie Grant for J Comino, was lodged with Council in January 1912. The drawing accompanying the application shows that the building contained storage and a kitchen at basement level and “dining saloons” on the ground and first floors. It, along with extant photographic evidence, shows a symmetrical shopfront consisting of a central porch flanked on either side by metal framed display windows with highlight glazing over. The sides of the

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porch were slightly splayed. A pair of doors with a fanlight over gave access into the shop space. The stall boards beneath the display windows were lined with ceramic tiles laid in a decorative pattern. There may also have been ceramic tiles applied to the face of the piers on either side of the façade. Signage was applied to the hamper above the shopfront and seems also to have been installed on the faces of the piers. The building was occupied by the Marathon Café until the mid 1920s

The entire block between Burton and Crown Street remained in the ownership of the Municipal Council of Sydney after the resumption. Although the Council sold off several parts over the years, sales did not include 58-72 Oxford Street Transfer of tile to the Council of City of South Sydney took place after electoral boundaries were redefined. The buildings were subsequently returned to the City of Sydney for the same reason. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none)

Designer: No 58-60: F Winn; 62-66: George Nye (attributed); 68-70: Edwin R Orchard; 72: George Leslie Grant Maker / Builder:

Year Started: 1912 Year Completed: 1913 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: All of the facades associated with these buildings demonstrate characteristics of the Federation Free Style.

58-60 OXFORD STREET

58-60 Oxford Street is a three storey brick building with a symmetrical brick façade. The ground floor shop fronts, which are relatively recent building fabric, are sheltered by an awning that has retained original metal trusses and other fabric. The façade at first and second floor level consists of a narrow projecting central section flanked on either side by relatively wide bays. Brick piers “contain” either end of the façade. Window sills on both levels and lintels above first floor windows are formed out of rusticated stone, while a wide course of stone runs across the facade just below the parapet.

The façade is divided into three sections: a central bay with a wide opening on the first and second floor levels containing pairs of double hung windows is flanked on either side by bays containing a pair of square headed openings at first floor level and wide arched openings at second floor level. The arches are emphasised by the use of dark toned bricks. The central bay is distinguished by a projecting canopy-like structure between the first and second floor windows lined with glazed ceramic tiles, as well as a panel of tiles above the second floor windows and a small pedimented attic that interrupts the parapet. The parapet

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is given visual interest by means of concave forms in each of the flanking bays.

62-66 OXFORD STREET

As with other buildings in this section of Oxford Street, 62-66 Oxford Street is a three storey building with shops at ground floor. A wide awning, which has retained a great deal of original structural fabric, provides protection for pedestrians. Council records establish that the present shopfront of 62-64 Oxford Street was installed during the second half of the 1920s.

The upper sections of the façade are restrained and somewhat awkward in execution. It is symmetrical in configuration and mildly rhythmic in design. Each of the bays is separated by slightly projecting brick piers. The first floor level of the façade is constructed (or clad in rusticated stone, while the second floor is constructed of face brick, relieved by subtle bands of darker toned brickwork and a string course above windows. Additional contrast results from rusticated stone above window heads in some bays. Interest is created at parapet level by varying the configuration and height of the parapet above each of the bays. Windows generally consist of pairs of double hung sashes, excepting those in the bays flanking the central section, which contain three sets of sashes. As well, the heads of the second floor window openings in these bays are arched.

68-70 OXFORD STREET

As with the other buildings in the group, the ground floor level of 68-70 Oxford Street has been extensively modified, although it still retains intact early ceiling fabric in the central porch that separates the two shop fronts. Comparison of existing fabric with the original building application documents shows that the basic configuration of the porch is also original. The awning that protects the shopfronts is also early and has retained a relatively large amount of original structural fabric.

The upper section of the building’s façade is distinguished by and expressive use of oriel windows -there is one at first floor level, flanked by wide openings containing bays of three casement type sashes with highlight windows above, and two at second floor level, between which is an opening containing a pair of double hung window sashes. The façade is constructed of face brick with stucco embellishments located above and below windows and across the parapet. The central second floor window is embellished with an arch of brickwork alternative with “courses” of stucco and an elaborate moulded swag, above which an attenuated scroll rises into the parapet. The skirts of the second floor oriels are lined with pressed metal that are supported off decorative brackets.

72 OXFORD STREET

The upper section of the façade of 72 Oxford Street is restrained in comparison with the other buildings in the group. It is constructed of brick, relieved by courses of rusticated stone extending the full width of the façade above the level of window heads and immediately above the suspended awning that shelters the ground floor shopfronts. Fenestration at first floor level consists of a pair of openings containing a pair of casement window sashes divided by horizontal glazing bars and with highlights windows above. Fenestration at

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second floor level consists of four regularly spaced openings containing a pair of timber framed double hung sashes. All of the windows feature rusticated stone sills. Piers on either side of the façade extend above the parapet, which consists of a relatively high expanse of brickwork broken by a moulded stucco cornice supported off small decorative brackets. A short pier rises from the cornice and extends above the remaining section of parapet Both parapet and piers are capped by what may be stone or stucco copings.

The shopfront has been extensively modified. However, the awning is early if not original and is distinguished by decorative metal brackets for the suspension rods, which are mounted on blocks of rusticated stone set into the piers on either side of the façade.

Physical Condition: The buildings are generally in good condition.

Modification Dates: The interior of the first and second floors of the building were extensively modified during the first half of the 1990s under the direction of South Sydney Council. The ground floor of 66 Oxford Street was extensively modified to form a lobby for the upper levels. Stairs were introduced and a lift installed. Some timber floors in the buildings were replaced with concrete slabs. Many of the shop fronts have been extensively altered

Council records include the following modifications to the building:

58-60 OXOFRD STREET Alterations are known to have been documented in 1911, 1923 and 1926. Their nature has not been determined.

1921: reinstatement of building after a fire (58 and 60) 1926: alterations to the shopfront (60) 1933: relocation of a café from the first to the ground floor (58) 1953: installation of a lavatory; installation of partitioning (60) 1953-54: alterations to shopfront (58) 1957: alterations for the purposes of a restaurant (60)

62-66 OXFORD STREET Documentation for the following modifications found in Council records includes:

1924: modification to shopfronts (64 and 66) 1927: modifications to shopfront (64 and 66) 1933: alterations to lavatories (66) 1950: removal of wall (between 62 and 64) 1951: alteration to first floor (66) – application made by Castellorizian Association of NSW 1952: reconstruction of lavatories to (66) 1953: minor alterations to (66) 1960: air lock/shower room on ground floor (66)

68-70 OXFORD STREET Documentation for the following modifications found in Council records includes:

1929: alterations to shop front

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1937: alterations to a wall 1956: alterations to second floor 1965: office fitout

72 OXFORD STREET Documentation for the following modifications found in Council records includes:

1922: alterations 1923: alterations 1926: alterations to shop front, alterations to building 1965: construction of car parking facilities 1965: installation of a stair Recommended •All conservation, adaptive reuse and future development should be undertaken in Management: accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter); •It is recommended that the four buildings comprising 58-72 Oxford Street are listed as a group heritage item by the City of Sydney; •A Conservation Management Strategy should be prepared for the buildings to ensure that future change is managed in a coordinated fashion; •All external fabric consisting of face brickwork, sandstone elements and ceramic tiles should be left unpainted; •Remove paint from external materials that were originally unpainted; •Retain and conserve all intact original external and internal building fabric and the external appearance of the building; •Investigate possibility of early fabric concealed behind later linings and, if it remains in place, conserve; •Retain and conserve original and intact awning fabric; •There should be no further additions at roof level; •Detailing of new fabric should respect the integrity and existing character of the building and its original fabric.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments:

Criteria a) The construction of 38-46 Oxford Street is associated with the resumption and widening of Oxford Street by the Municipal Council of Sydney in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Criteria b) Two of the buildings are associated with architects of some repute. 68-70 Oxford Street was designed by Edwin R Orchard, while 72 Oxford Street was designed by George Leslie Grant

Criteria c) The facades of the buildings, particularly above awning level, demonstrate many of the characteristics of the Federation Free Style and the diversity that the style permitted its exponents. All of the buildings are significant for their streetscape contribution. Criteria d) This criterion is not applicable.

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Criteria e) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria f) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria g) The facades of the buildings are representative of the Federation Free Style.

Integrity / Intactness: The buildings have retained original fabric, particularly the first ad second storey sections of the Oxford Street facades. There is remnant original shopfront fabric at 68-70 Oxford Street. There may be intact early fabric in basement areas and concealed behind later linings internally.

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 18/08/2006 Date Updated: 22/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Lowes Ltd (former)

Location: 31-33 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

Address: 31-33 Oxford Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Darlinghurst 2010 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Retail Former Uses: Retail (originally menswear); restaurant; nightclub

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of 31-33 Oxford Street has heritage significance for several reasons. It has historical Significance: associations with Lowe’s Ltd, a retailing concern that is still well-known within the market place and with the architectural firm of Partridge & Mackellar, which specialised in the design of retail premises during the 1930s.

The upper section of the building’s façade demonstrates a skilful and assured use of the Inter War Art Deco style and has strong visual associations with the adjacent and contemporary building at 23-29 Oxford Street. It makes a very positive contribution to the streetscape. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

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(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The site of 31-33 Oxford Street is a part of 25 acres granted to Alexander Donaldson on 26 August 1795 and a part of what became known as Sheriff’s Garden Estate. Donaldson soon sold the land to Commissary General John Palmer, who managed to acquire a large amount of land in the area.

By the mid 1850s the land was in the possession of Ebenezer, James and Joshua Beaumont and Thomas Buckland. It was subsequently sold to Gregory Board during October 1871 and after his death came under the jurisdiction of several trustees, who applied to bring it under the provisions of the Real Property Act in 1889. It was purchased by a newsagent, Francis Barker, who shortly afterwards sold it to George Boyd in November 1890. The property was sold to William Lowe in April 1901.

W Lowe & Co, hatters, began trading at 31 Oxford Street around 1900, although for a year or so prior to that the business was located just a few doors away at 25-27 Oxford Street. By 1909, if not earlier, the company had expanded its retailing activity sufficiently to occupy premises at 31-33 Oxford Street and to trade as “gentlemen’s outfitters”. The title to the property was eventually conveyed to Lowes Limited during the 1930s, indicating a change in the company’s legal status.

An application for new Oxford Street premises was lodged with Council in December 1938. The building contained retail space on two levels and administrative and amenities spaces on a small second floor level at the rear of the building. Clerestories provided natural light to the first floor level. The firm of Bray & Holliday carried out the interior fitout and installation of shop fronts, which were claimed to include Australia’s largest single plate glass panes. The Oxford Street store was but one of several modernising efforts undertaken to Lowes Ltd’s stores at this period, although it had previously undertaken refurbishment of its Pitt Street premises during 1934. All of the stores seem to have been similar in appearance.

The building was designed by the architectural firm of Mackellar & Partridge, which specialised in retail store design. Crawford Mackellar may well have had involvement with the design and documentation of David Jones’ Elizabeth Street store while in partnership with the architect Henry Budden during the 1920s. Projects undertaken during the 1930s included Highgate’s store at 334 Pitt Street (circa 1938), David Jones’ Market Street store (1938, subsequently extended vertically to the design of Mackellar) and the former Woolworths premises at 50-52 Darlinghurst Road, now the home of the City of Sydney branch library. The firm also worked on buildings in other parts of Australia, such as the chain of Selfridges’ stores.

Lowes Ltd sold the building to Adelstein Investments Pty Limited In May 1962. It underwent a radical transformation when Patch’s discotheque opened on the first floor in April 1976.

The building was acquired by Nechi Holdings Pty Limited during 1984. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme

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Item Name: Lowes Ltd (former)

Location: 31-33 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

3. Economy Commerce (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none)

Designer: Mackellar & Partridge Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1939 Circa: No

Physical Description: 31-33 Oxford Street is a two storey building with a symmetrical façade constructed from textured brick, which demonstrates a strong Inter War Art Deco style influence. The upper section of façade is very much the same as originally documented by Mackellar & Partridge in 1938. The façade is divided into three zones consisting of plain end bays flanking a central tower element formed by stepping the parapet line vertically in an exaggerated manner. The tower contains remnants of a wall mounted sign and is framed by two brick piers rising for almost the entire height of the upper section of façade. The central zone also contains a group of three window openings that have been covered over and secondary finial-like brick piers appended to the wall surface. The flanking side bays by contrast are simple planes of unadorned brickwork.

Shopfronts at ground floor level are relatively recent. There is no apparent evidence of the original shopfront fabric.

Physical Condition: The building appears to be in good condition.

Modification Dates: The following applications for modifications to the building were lodged with Council. It is probable that one of these applications was for the subdivision of the ground floor shop into two separate occupancies:

1954: Building application – internal alterations and modifications to display windows. 1962: Building applications – installation of mechanical ventilation; alterations to ground floor 1963: Building applications – new lavatory; relocation of entry to first floor level. Development application – use premises as social club. 1964: Development application – use premises as refreshment room and for storage/sale of meat 1967: Building application – alterations to premises. 1968: Building application – alterations to awning. 1970: Building application - alterations to first floor level. 1974: Building application – alterations to stair well; alterations to shopfront and display windows. Development application – use ground floor as music shop. 1975: Building application – alterations to first floor. Development application – use of premises as licenses d restaurant and cabaret. 1977: Development application – use ground floor as restaurant

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Location: 31-33 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst [Sydney City]

1979: Development application – alterations and use ground floor as leisure centre. 1984: Development application – use ground floor as liquor shop 1985: Building application – erection of partitions and new shop front. Development application – use of shop for retailing of clothing. 1986: Development application – use shop at 31 Oxford Street as coffee lounge/take away food outlet 1991: Building application – alterations to shop front and shop ceiling. Development application – use shop 33 as retail music store. Recommended •The building should be listed as a heritage item in the relevant planning instrument. Management: •All conservation, adaptive reuse and future development should be undertaken in accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter). •A Conservation Management Strategy should be prepared for the entire building to ensure that future change is managed in a coordinated fashion. •Retain and conserve all intact original external and internal building fabric and the external appearance of the building. •Encourage interpretation of the original shop front in any future application sfor modifications to the ground floor shops. •Retain and conserve any original awning fabric. •Investigate the possibility of early first floor windows remaining in place behind the blank panels. Encouragement should be given to reinstate the windows or, if they have been removed, reconstructing the original windows based on available documentary evidence. •There should be no further additions at roof level. •Detailing of new fabric should respect the integrity and existing character of the building and its original fabric. •A vertical sign mounted on the façade was an integral part of the original concept for the building. Consideration should be given to approval of an appropriately designed wall mounted sign.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments:

Criteria a) 31-33 Oxford Street is one of a small number of commercial premises built on the southern side of Oxford Street during the second half of the 1930s, indicating consolidation of the street’s retail prominence after the depression of the late 1920s/1930s had eased. Criteria b) The building has historical associations with Lowe’s Ltd, a retailing concern that is still well- known within the market place

The building has associations with the architectural firm of Partridge & Mackellar, which specialised in the design of retail premises during the 1930s.

Criteria c) 31-33 Oxford Street has strong visual associations with the adjacent and contemporary building at 23-29 Oxford Street.

The upper section of the building’s façade has aesthetic significance because it demonstrates a skilful and assured use of the Inter war Art Deco style.

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The building makes a very positive contribution to the streetscape. Criteria d) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria e) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria f) Although a relatively uncommon example of Art Deco style architecture in the context of Oxford Street, this criterion is not applicable in more general terms. Criteria g) The upper section of the building’s façade is a representative example of the Inter War Art Deco style, executed with a high level of assurance. Integrity / Intactness: The upper portion of the building’s façade has retained its original configuration and a relatively large amount of original fabric.

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 17/08/2006 Date Updated: 17/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Kauri Foreshore Hotel

Location: 2 Bridge Road, Glebe [Sydney City]

Address: 2 Bridge Road DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Glebe 2037 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Kauri Hotel

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The Kauri Foreshore Hotel, 2 Bridge Road, Glebe, has local historic and social significance Significance: as part a long standing pattern of Glebe hotels, inns and pubs. The existing building (c.1939) is the second hotel to stand on this site, the first being the Grand Hotel, c.1890. The Kauri Hotel formed part of a distinctive, close knit pattern centred around the local community and the industries (in particularly the timber and coal industries) of Rozelle and Blackwattle Bays.

The Kauri Hotel has historic significance for its long association (c.1929-1980) with Tooths & Co, one of Sydney’s major breweries and the dominant force in the Glebe hotel and liquor trade during the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. The hotel was one of many within the Sydney metropolitan area that was owned (or controlled) and rebuilt by Tooths & Co. during the Interwar period. It is typical of the standard of building constructed by Tooths & Co. at this time.

The Kauri Hotel has historic significance for its association with the architect John M. Hellyer, who designed other hotels and alterations for Tooths & Co, including the Marlborough Hotel, Newtown (1939) and the Hollywood Hotel, Surry Hills (1942).

The Kauri Hotel has local historic and aesthetic significance as one of a small number of Sydney hotels built in the Interwar Functionalist Style and with Art Deco overtones. The Kauri Hotel provides a more compact and modest example of this style than other city hotels in this style. The exterior of the building is substantially intact when compared to the original architectural drawings and to early photographs. Building records indicate minor internal alterations over time, most notably to the bar area.

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Location: 2 Bridge Road, Glebe [Sydney City]

The Kauri Hotel makes a positive contribution to a highly mixed streetscape as a fine, if comparatively modest, example of its type. The building is clearly visible as it is approached along Bridge Road from the east. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

Modern day Glebe was the territory of the Cadigal people, whose land extended from Sydney Cove to the southern side of Port Jackson and south to modern day Petersham.

The subject property lies close to what was once Blackwattle Creek, which formed the eastern boundary of the 400 acre grant known as The Glebe. This grant was set aside by Governor Phillip in 1789 ‘for the maintenance of a minister’. On the other side of Blackwattle Creek lay the Ultimo Estate, a large estate consolidated by grant and purchase by Surgeon John Harris between 1803 and 1818. The Glebe remained heavily timbered and largely unoccupied until subdivided in 1828 by the Church and School Corporation, the body then responsible for the Glebe lands. All but 3 of the 28 allotments created were subsequently sold. Allotments on high ground were typically developed into villa estates, while land close to Blackwattle Bay was used by noxious industries, most notably slaughter houses. What little development there was on the adjacent Ultimo Estate during the early and mid nineteenth century was concentrated along Blackwattle Creek (now the area of Wentworth Park), Parramatta Road and Darling Harbour until the 1850s. During this period the subject property would appear to have been part of Blackwattle Bay (Figure 1), the natural shore line of which would be substantially altered by later works.

By the 1850s, Blackwattle Bay had become fouled by the effluent from the wool scouring works, breweries, tanneries, distilleries, boiling down works, cesspits and slaughter houses of the area, not the least of which was the Glebe Island Abattoirs. Blackwattle Creek itself was draining waste directly from the Colonial Sugar Company. The land leading up to Parramatta Road, which had once provided an attractive vista for the marine villas of the Glebe subdivisions, was now commonly referred to as Blackwattle Swamp.

Pyrmont Bridge opened in 1858 to be followed a year later by Pyrmont Bridge Road, now

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Bridge Road. In the same year, legal difficulties that had long surrounded the Ultimo Estate were cleared, paving the way for subdivision. In 1860, the slaughter houses of Blackwattle Bay were removed to Homebush and a causeway built at the head of what would become known as Wentworth Park. Despite the removal of the slaughter houses, the former Blackwatte Creek was still described by Glebe Council in 1868 as being an ‘open sewer.’ Council sought to solve this problem by reclaiming the waters of the swamp; £10,000 were placed on Government estimates for the work.

The Blackwattle Bay Reclamation Act was passed in 1873. Between 1876 and 1880, the former swamp and foreshore area were filled with silt deposits dredged from the harbour; dykes and sea walls were created as part of this process. By 1877, sufficient works had been completed to allow the laying of pipes to channel sewage and stormwater to the Blackwattle Bay outfall.

Industrial and residential buildings and yards soon occupied the reclaimed land at Blackwattle Bay. Ultimo and Pyrmont developed into part of the industrial heartland of Sydney. The Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series Survey for this part of Glebe dated 1889 indicates that, at this time, a parcel of land which included the subject property was fenced with two structures (Figure 2). The Glebe Rate Records for Bishopthorpe Ward for 1888-9 indicate that the land was owned and occupied by J. Payrig (?). The accompanying notation is difficult to read, but would appear to indicate use as a stone yard.

As industry increased, a need arose for housing. Nineteenth century Sydney was essentially a walking city; working people resided close to their place of employment. The St. Phillips Distinctive Neighbourhood (Leichhardt DCP 2002) in which the subject property is located was thus intensely re-subdivided and built upon during the 1870s and1880s, creating massed terrace housing for the local working people. The first evidence for a substantial building on the subject site is provided by the Rate Records for 1890. The owner of the property at this time was J.G. White and the occupier Thomas White. The building was a two storey hotel, known as the Grand Hotel. Local hotels would play a vital role in the social and commercial worlds of Glebe throughout of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By 1891, there would be one hotel for every 610 people in the municipality.

The Grand Hotel is first listed in the John Sands Suburban Directory of 1893. The publican at this time was John H. James, who remained publican when the name of the hotel was changed to the Kauri Hotel in 1905. The name change may well have been a reflection of the timber handling activities that came to dominate the Blackwattle Bay and Rozelle Bay wharfs and, in particular, the importation of Kauri timber from New Zealand. By 1891, the Kauri Timber Company, for example, were flourishing at Blackwattle Bay. At a later date, George Hudson Pty Ltd, of Bridge Road, Glebe, acted as Sydney Agents for this company.

Rate Records from the late nineteenth century indicate that immediate area surrounding the hotel was occupied by a horse yard, stables, blacksmiths shop and asphalt yard. An alternative spelling for the hotel, the Kouri Hotel, appears in some years of the Sands Directory; this may be a misprint. Various publicans- men and women- are listed by the Directories until the last published issue of 1932-3. Photographs from this period reveal a

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three storey rendered building with high parapet/gables in High Victorian Style. The building had a cantilevered corner verandah with ornate cast iron detailing (Figure 3).

The Kauri Hotel was acquired by one of Sydney’s largest breweries, Tooth & Co., around 1929. Tooths acquired the hotel from Emily James and/or the executors of the will of R.A. Carter. Tooth & Co. had been founded in 1835 by John Tooth and his brother-in-law Charles Newman. The Company remained a separate entity (with the addition of Resches in 1929) until acquired by Carlton and United Breweries in 1983. The hotel was operated by sub- leases or managed by a licensee for the Company and remained in their ownership until at least 1983.

The Kauri Hotel was one of numerous hotels that the Company owned or leased in the Sydney area. Between 1898 and 1940, Tooths & Co. , together with their rival, Tooheys, acquired the freeholds of hundreds of pubs, taking control of the liquor trade in Sydney. From the late nineteenth century to World War II, Tooths & Co. dominated the liquor trade in Glebe and Newtown, while Balmain was a stronghold of Tooheys. Between 1898 and 1940, Tooths gained control of 16 pubs in Balmain, 9 in Glebe and 2 each in Annandale and Leichhardt.

Tooths & Co. rebuilt the Kauri Hotel in 1939. The plans for the existing hotel, dated September 1939, were prepared by the architect John M. Hellyer (Figures 4 and 5). Examples of hotels designed by Hellyer for Tooths & Co. are provided by the Marlborough Hotel, 145 King Street, Newtown (1939), and the Hollywood Hotel, 2 Foster Street, Surry Hills (1942). Hellyer also designed alterations and additions for other Tooths hotels.

The rent of the then licensee, John F. Cranney, of the Kauri Hotel was reduced at the end of 1939 to allow for the ‘rebuilding’. Tooths Records note a ‘temporary bar’, indicating that some form of trade continued during the building period. The records do not indicate when the new works were completed. A photograph taken in October 1940 indicates the completed (at least externally) building (Figure 6).

The Kauri Hotel provides an example of the Interwar Functionalist Style, tempered with the popular Art Deco Style. Part of the purpose of the modern movement that had followed the end of World War I (1914-1918), was to demonstrate the way to a new and better world through a disassociation with the past. Characteristics of the style include: clean building lines, asymmetrical massing, simple geometric shapes, roof concealed by a parapet, cantilevered balcony or hood, rounded corner and horizontal banding.

Tooths & Co. rebuilt a number of hotels during the interwar period, several in the same style as the Kauri Hotel. The other two examples of Hellyer’s work for Tooth’s sited above, the Marlborough Hotel and the Hollywood Hotel, are also Interwar Functionalist Style buildings. The latter, however, provides a larger, more substantial example of a building in this style. There are five examples of this style of hotel listed on the City of Sydney LEP, the others being The Australian Hotel (Copman Lemont & Keesing, 1938), Sutherlands Hotel (Rudder & Grout, 1939), the County Clare Hotel (Sidney Warden, 1941) and the Civic Hotel (R.A. Prevost & Associates, 1940). Of these, The Australian Hotel and the Civic Hotel are considered to be the best examples. Hellyer’s Marlborough Hotel is listed as an item on the South Sydney LEP. It is considered to be a representative, but outstanding, example of its

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kind. The Kauri Hotel provides a more modest (in terms of size) example of these grander, larger and more prominently located hotels.

Company records of the 1940s describes the area surrounding the Kauri Hotel as

‘Timber yards and coal depots in the proximity. Also poor class residential area and large passing trade.’

Pubs tended to be more numerous in the poorer residential inner city suburbs. In the 1933 census, over half of Sydney’s 632 pubs could be found within the City of Sydney. There were four hotels within a 1/4 mile radius of the Kauri Hotel at this time.

A survey dated 1950 indicates that the Kauri Hotel overlooked the large George Hudson & Co. timber yards and a number of coal depots.

In 1970, the area was similarly described as ‘poor class residential area, with light industry’ (Figure 7). Tooth & Co. Company records can be accessed to provide a full list of all the licensees/lessees of the hotel for the period 1929-1984. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none) 5. Working Labour (none) 8. Culture Creative endeavour (Cultur (none) 8. Culture Leisure (none) 9. Phases of Life Persons (none)

Designer: John M. Hellyer, ARAIA, for Tooths & Co. Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1939 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: Exterior: The hotel is a two storey brick building on the corner of Bridge Road and Bellevue Street, Glebe. The ground floor sections of the Bridge Road and Bellevue Street elevations are finished in glazed tiles, punctuated by a series of double doors and windows. There is a continuous cantilevered concrete awning to most of the two street elevations. The first floor level is characterised by face brickwork and a high, stepped face brick parapet capped with a solider course. Alternate rows are recessed, creating a banded effect. The elevation is dominated by a raised corner forming a partial drum. Three sculptured concrete panels

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decorate the drum and tie into the first floor windows. Windows are double hung timber windows with horizontal panes.

Interior: Not examined.

Physical Condition: Good

Modification Dates: From the Tooth & Co Records: + Modernising kitchen, including wall and floor cupboards, new double bowl sink, new electric stove, new tiling to walls etc. £768. April 1962. + Conversion of the Ladies Parlour. £757. May 1962. + Interior painting and repairs. $7, 960. March 1972. + Roofing repairs. $7,980. 1976. + Interior painting and repairs; external painting and repairs. $3,495; $4,710. 1976. + Internal repairs. $570. 1977. + Remodel public bar. $6,826. December 1978. Council record application made 5.12.1978. + Internal painting and repairs. $1,142. August 1979.

Council Records (in addition to the above). + Bottle Department. 1962. + Erection of 12.12 m by 3.03 metre landscape panel on eastern wall. 1985 (approved). + Alterations. 1978. + Additions to Hotel. 1996 Recommended The interior of the Kauri Hotel was not inspected as part of the assessment process. It is Management: clear that alterations have taken place to the bars. The façade is intact and of high quality. The hotel is recommended for listing as a local heritage item.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: No archaeological assessment carried out

Criteria a) The Kauri Hotel has local significance under this criterion as part of a long standing pattern of Glebe hotels, inns and pubs. The existing building (c. 1939) is the second hotel to have stood on this site, the first being the Grand Hotel, c.1890. The Kauri Hotel formed part of an important, close knit pattern of local community, local workers and industry, particularly the timber and coal yards, of Rozelle and Blackwattle Bays. Criteria b) The Kauri Hotel has significance for its long association (c.1929-1980) with Tooths & Company, one of Sydney’s major breweries and the dominant force in local trade. The hotel was one of many owned by Tooths & Co. within the Sydney metropolitan area. It is among a number of hotels rebuilt by the Company during the Interwar period.

The Kauri Hotel has significance under this criterion for its association with the architect John M. Hellyer. Two other examples of hotels designed by this architect for Tooths & Co. are provided by the Marlborough Hotel, Newtown, (1939) and the Hollywood Hotel, Surry Hills (1942).

Criteria c) The Kauri Hotel has aesthetic significance as an example of an Inter-War Functionalist Style

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building with Art Deco overtones. The exterior of the building is substantially intact when compared to the original architectural drawings and to early photographs. Building records indicate minor internal alterations over time, including to the bar area.

The Kauri Hotel has significance as one of a small number of Sydney hotel buildings built in the Interwar Functionalist Style. It provides a more compact and modest example of this style than other inner city examples of which the Australian Hotel and the Clare Hotel on Broadway, Ultimo, are the best examples.

The Kauri Hotel makes a positive contribution to a highly mixed streetscape. The building is clearly visible as it is approached along Bridge Road from the east. A new three storey building on the opposite corner of Bellevue Street makes reference to the curving form of the Hotel. Criteria d) Hotels of long standing frequently have significance for local communities.

Criteria e) The Kauri Hotel has significance under this criterion as an example of the Interwar Functionalist/Art Deco Style building. It juxtaposition with the nearby former timber and coal yards of Blackwattle Bay is indicative of historical patterns of development. Criteria f) The Kauri Hotel is not considered to be significant under this criterion. It is one of a number of Interwar hotels in this style to survive in metropolitan Sydney and one of a large number rebuilt by Tooths & Co. during this period. Criteria g) The Kauri Hotel has significance as a substantially intact (externally) example of a Interwar period hotel built in the Interwar Functionalist Style with Art Deco overtones. Integrity / Intactness: Externally, the Kauri Hotel displays a high degree of integrity. The existing structure corresponds closely to the original drawings and early photographs of the building. While not examined internally, it would appear from Council records that minor internal alterations have occurred over time. Other areas, such as the foyer off Bellevue Street would appear to be substantially intact.

References: Author Title Year Glebe Municipality Rate Records: Bishopsgate Ward Cultural Resources Management for Review of Heritage Assessment: Sydney Fish Markets 2002 Sydney Foreshore Authority Hellyer, John M. Kauri Hotel, Glebe: Proposed Rebuilding (architectural 1939 plans and elevations) John Sands Limited John Sands Sydney Suburban Directories NSW Lands Department Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series: Glebe, Section 12 1889 Tooth & Co. Tooth & Co. Company Records: Yellow Series: Kauri Hotel 1920

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Item Name: Friend in Hand Hotel

Location: 58 Cowper Street, Glebe [Sydney City]

Address: 58 Cowper Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Glebe 2037 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Statement of The Friend in Hand Hotel, 58 Cowper Street, Glebe, has local historic significance as part of Significance: a long standing pattern of Glebe hotels, inns and pubs. Constructed c.1937, the existing building is the second of two hotels on this site, the first, also known as the Friend in Hand Hotel, being constructed prior to 1858. The hotel continues to form an important part of a distinctive close knit pattern of local community.

The Friend in Hand Hotel has historic significance for its long association (c.1929-1980) with Tooths & Co, one of Sydney’s major breweries. Tooths & Co. dominated the Glebe liquor trade during the late nineteenth century and first part of the twentieth century. The hotel was one of many owned and or rebuilt by Tooths & Co. within the wider metropolitan area during the interwar period; it is indicative of the standard of building constructed by the brewery at this time. The Friend in Hand Hotel has historic significance for its association with the architect R.M. Joy, who designed other hotels for Tooths & Co.

The Friend in Hand Hotel has local aesthetic significance as an important element in the immediate streetscape. Stylistically, it relates well to a number of interwar period residences in the immediate area. The hotel has significance as a fine, if modest, example of an Interwar Functionalist Style building with Art Deco overtones; it is one of small group of hotels in this style in the inner city suburbs. The building displays a high and rare level of intactness and retains its original main bar. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora.

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There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

Modern day Glebe was once occupied by the Cadigal people, whose territory extended from Sydney Cove to the southern side of Port Jackson and south to modern day Petersham.

The subject property lies on the 400 acre grant known as The Glebe, land set aside by Governor Phillip in 1789 ‘for the maintenance of a minister’. The income derived from this lands was intended to sustain the Church, then in the person of the first minister to be appointed to the Colony, the Reverend Richard Johnson. The Glebe remained heavily timbered and largely unoccupied until subdivided in 1828 by the body then responsible for the Glebe lands, the Church and School Corporation. All but 3 of the 28 allotments created were subsequently sold. Allotments on high ground were typically developed into villa estates; those close to Blackwattle Bay were used by noxious industries, most notably slaughter houses. The line of Glebe Point Road was laid out at this time. The road, would, however, remain little more than a rough track for sometime to come. Cowper Street was most likely named for the Reverend W.M. Cowper the first incumbent of the Parish of Glebe (appointed 1856).

The allotment on which the hotel now stands would not appear to have been sold at the 1828 land sales. Glebe Municipal Rate Records for the Outer Ward, however, indicate that the land had been sold by 1859, at which time it was owned by Michael Delohenty.

The rate records for 1859 are the first available for Glebe. By this time, a hotel stood on the subject site. This building, known as the Friend in Hand, was described in this year as a two storey brick and slate ‘public house’ of six rooms. The hotel had appeared in the first published John Sands Suburban Directory of 1858. It can thus be stated that a hotel has stood on this site from at least 1858. Delohenty remained at the Friend in Hand until around 1876. Mrs. H. Delohenty is listed as the owner of the hotel by the rate records of 1896; the occupiers by this time, however, were Smyth and Andrews. Local hotels would play a vital role in the social and commercial worlds of Glebe throughout of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By 1891, there would be one hotel for every 610 people in the municipality.

The first available foot print for the building on the site is provided by the Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series Plan of 1889 (Figure 1 in images). The original hotel did not quite stand on the corner of Cowper and Queen Streets; to Queen Street there was land and

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sheds. These structures were still standing when the property was assessed for rates in 1904. A photograph of the nineteenth century hotel building is provided by Figure 2 (in images).

One of Sydney’s largest breweries, Tooth & Co., acquired an interest (and sometime later, the freehold) for the Friend in Hand Hotel around 1921. Tooth & Co. had been founded in 1835 by John Tooth and his brother-in-law Charles Newman. The Company remained a separate entity (with the addition of Resches in 1929) until acquired by Carlton and United Breweries in 1983. The hotel was operated by subleases or managed by a licensee for the Company and remained in their ownership until at least the late 1970s.

The Friend in Hand was one of numerous hotels that Tooths & Co. owned or leased in the Sydney area. Between 1898 and 1940, the company and their rival, Tooheys, acquired the freeholds of hundreds of pubs, largely taking control of the liquor trade in Sydney. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Tooths & Co. dominated the liquor trade in Glebe and Newtown, while Balmain was a stronghold of Tooheys. During this period, Tooths gained control of 16 pubs in Balmain, 9 in Glebe and 2 each in Annandale and Leichhardt.

A Tooths & Co. Report dated 3 April, 1935 described the Friend in Hand Hotel as an

‘.. old two storey building of poor appearance….The Hotel contains a small Public Bar with three Parlours.. The building is badly planned. .. There is no Private entrance ...The whole place is obsolete and should have been condemned years ago.

In the event of the Company purchasing the property, it would be necessary to re-build, and to re-build on a larger site. Either the whole block should be purchased with the Hotel, or another site purchased with a view to the removal of the license.’

A ground floor plan of this building is available among Tooth & Co. records held by the NBAC, ANU.

Tooths & Co. would appear to have acquired the site and adjoining land to Queen Street soon after. Plans for a new hotel, prepared by architect R.M. Joy, were submitted to Council in 1936, details of which are provided by Figures 3, 4 and 5 (in images). The tender of S.A. Benell for £5,100 was accepted for the ‘rebuilding’ in September 1936. The exact date of completion is not known. A photograph dated 23 July, 1937, however, shows the completed, at least externally, building (Figure 6 in images).

The Friend in Hand is one of a small number of Sydney hotels built in the Interwar Functionalist Style. The building is made further indicative of the period through the use of Art Deco overtones. The hotel is modest in comparison to the best Sydney examples of this style, The Australian and The Civic.

Tooths & Co. records provide the names of the various publicans for the period 1921 to 1978.

Company records of the 1970s describe the surrounding area as ‘partly residential’ (poor class) with light industry.’

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The hotel was photographed regularly for Tooths & Co. records (Figures 7, 8 and 9 in images). There would appear to have been no major external alterations involving the street facing elevations.

The Friend in Hand Hotel continues to be an important local meeting place. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none) 5. Working Labour (none) 8. Culture Creative endeavour (Cultur (none) 8. Culture Leisure (none) 9. Phases of Life Persons (none)

Designer: R.M. Joy (architect) for Tooths & Co. Maker / Builder: S. A. Bennell (builder)

Year Started: Year Completed: 1936 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: Surrounding area: one and two storey nineteenth century terraces, mostly modest in size and detailing. Along nearby Broughton Street there is a line of modest interwar detached dwellings that relate well to the Friend in Hand Hotel. The hotel also relates to a two storey interwar dwelling on the opposite side of Cowper Street.

Exterior: Two storey brick face brick building on the south eastern corner of Cowper and Queen Streets. Principal elevations are of cream brick; side and rear elevations are of common brick. The ground floor of the Cowper and Queen Street elevations are finished in glazed tiles (black to base; yellow to middle with green banding; mustard to top). There are timber and glass doors at regular intervals along the two street elevations. The ground floor is shaded by a wide suspended awning. The first floor continues into a raised parapet (slightly higher to the corner) that conceals the roof form from the streets. Regularly spaced double hung timber windows are set within bands of contrasting brickwork.

Interior: Not examined. The main bar area (ground floor) would appear to be largely intact.

Physical Condition: Good

Modification Dates: From Tooth & Co. Company Records: (in addition to replacement of e.g. refrigeration equipment, internal/external painting and repairs) - Tiles in entrance hall, ladies parlour and serving space behind Public Bar (1956). - Alteration and additions to value of £5,265 (1963). - Renovation of portion of exterior to the value of $454 (1966). State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 4

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- Alterations and additions to public bar counter, value $590 (1968).

Council Records (in addition to the above): - Alterations to snack bar (1985). - Alterations to hotel bottle shop (1986). - Alterations to dining area (1992). - Refurbishment of first floor (1994). Recommended The Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe, should be listed as a local heritage item. It is a fine, if Management: modest, example of an Interwar Functionalist Style hotel which displays a high and rare degree of intactness, considerable streetscape presence and which continues to be a popular local meeting place.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: Archaeological Potential: Not assessed.

Criteria a) The Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe, has local significance under this criterion as part of a long standing pattern of Glebe hotels, inns and pubs. The existing building (c.1937) is the second of two hotels to have stood on this site, the first, also known as the Friend in Hand Hotel, being constructed prior to 1858. The hotel formed (and continues to form) part of an important, close knit pattern of local community. Criteria b) The Friend in Hand Hotel has significance for its long association (c.1929-1980) with Tooths & Co, one of Sydney’s major breweries. The Company dominated the Glebe liquor trade. The hotel was one of many owned by Tooths & Co. within the Sydney metropolitan area and is among a number of hotels rebuilt by the company during the interwar period.

The Friend in Hand Hotel has significance under this criterion for its association with the architect R.M. Joy.

Criteria c) The Friend in Hand Hotel has local aesthetic significance. Located on the corner of Cowper and Queen Streets, the building is an important element in the immediate streetscape. The hotel has significance as a fine, if modest, example of an Interwar Functionalist Style building with Art Deco overtones. The building (externally) is substantially intact and would appear to retain its original main bar. In style, the hotel relates well to the line of modest interwar detached dwellings on nearby Broughton Street. Criteria d) Local hotels of long standing possess social significance as meeting places of long standing. This is particularly clear for the Friend in Hand Hotel. Criteria e) The Friend in Hand Hotel has significance under this criterion as an example of the Inter- War Functionalist style building with Art Deco overtones. Criteria f) The Friend in Hand Hotel is one of a number of interwar hotels in the Interwar Functionalist Style to survive in the city area. It is one of a number of surviving hotels built by Tooths & Co. during the interwar period. The high level of intactness displayed by the main bar area, however, is rare. Criteria g) The Friend in Hand Hotel has significance as a substantially intact (externally, at least)

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example of a interwar period hotel built in the Interwar Functionalist Style with Art Deco overtones. Integrity / Intactness: Externally, the Friend in Hand Hotel displays a high degree of integrity. The existing structure corresponds closely to the original drawings and early photographs of the building.

While not examined internally, it would appear from Council records that internal alterations have occurred over time. The main bar area, however, would appear to be largely intact.

References: Author Title Year Glebe Municipality Rate Records: Outer Ward Joy, R.M. The Friend in Hand Hotel. New Premises 1936 Tooth & Co. Tooth & Co. Company Records: Yellow Series: Friend in Hand Hotel

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Item Name: Minton House

Location: 72-80 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross [Sydney City]

Address: 72-80 Darlinghurst Road DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Kings Cross 2011 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Darlinghurst Road Heritage Streetscape Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary: Lot 1 Deposited Plan 528183 Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Other - Commercial Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Retail shops on ground floor, commercial tenancies on first and second floors Former Uses: Retail shops on ground floor, residential flats and commercial tenancies on first and second floors

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of Minton House demonstrates a new way of residential life in Kings Cross that emerged Significance: during the 1920s after the sale, redevelopment, demolition or adaptation of Victorian era properties. The extant building fabric is a relatively rare and evocative survivor of 1920s domestic architecture in the inner city. The building is representative of the mixed developments constructed in the City of Sydney during the 1920s, especially along major inner thoroughfares such as Darlinghurst Road and William Street. Minton House is an important contributory item of the streetscape along Darlinghurst Road and at the intersection of Darlinghurst and Bayswater Road. It illustrates the changing character of Kings Cross during this seminal period of its development. Minton House is representative of the work of the architectural firm of J E and E R Justelius, which was also responsible for the design of neighbouring buildings along Darlinghurst Road. It has retained a relatively high level of original external and internal fabric. Comparison of its existing plan with original architectural documentation establishes that its layout and spaces are largely intact. For most of its life this building has been used by a variety of small businesses and private tenants, in common with much of the rest of Kings Cross. From the 1980s it has become particularly associated with the independent film making community. In this it continues a long association of Kings Cross with the broader artistic community. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this

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was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

Site History in the Nineteenth Century

The site of Minton House is part of somewhat over three acres granted to Deputy Surveyor- General Samuel Augustus Perry on 19 October 1831. Perry’s house was called "Bona Vista", for which he submitted plans for approval during May 1831. He was forced to submit a second set after the documents were rejected, and it is likely that the house was built was to his own design. The house was located approximately where the Hotel Mansions, on the corner of Kellett Street and Bayswater Road, now stands. Perry and his family did not occupy the house for long. It was sold at public auction during 1834 and acquired by merchant, banker, shipowner and Member of Parliament Richard Jones. He renamed it "Darlinghurst House." Jones fell on hard times during the depression of the 1840s and the house was subsequently acquired by Stuart Donaldson, who had taken over the firm of Riley Jones & Walker after Jones retired from it and became New South Wales’ first Premier. Donaldson renamed the property “Kellett House”, although it was sometimes known as "Kellett Lodge", and was residing there until the end of the 1850s. The house was then occupied for a short while by William Bray and his family. The estate was subdivided during 1864 and "Kellett House" was demolished in 1877 by W F Buchanan. Its name is commemorated by Kellett Street. Buchanan built a terrace of dwellings known as Bayswater Terrace, which originally incorporated the Hotel Mansions, facing Bayswater Road.

Lots 3 to 17 of the subdivision were purchased by a gold assayer, John Solomon in March 1864. He undertook the construction of a terrace of houses known as Alberto Terrace, which seems to have been constructed in 1865 and originally contained 14 dwellings, along the eastern side of Darlinghurst Road. For a short time it was known as Solomon’s terrace, then by 1866 was given the name Alberto Terrace. One of the houses was occupied by John Solomon. It remained in the possession of his family after he died.

Site History in the Early Twentieth Century

The block bounded by Darlinghurst Road, Bayswater Road and Kellett Street was acquired by Norman Weekes Burdekin in 1914. By this time individual residences within the Terrace had been converted to boarding houses and "“residential chambers." In December 1923 the entire row of buildings from 42 to 76 Darlinghurst Road, including Alberto Terrace, was offered for sale by auction. A couple of individual buildings were sold and in 1924 title to the residual property was transferred to Alberto Limited. In October 1924 the title to that section

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of Alberto Terrace that was to be developed as Minton House (No’s 74 and 76) was transferred to solicitor Harold Minton Taylor. Taylor mortgaged the property to Burdekin and to William and Sophia Manly shortly after acquiring it. Taylor had already lodged a proposal for redevelopment with Council and received consent for it during July 1924. The development was designed and documented by the architectural firm of J E & E R Justelius.

J E & E R Justelius

James E Justelius was born in Sydney in November 1859. At age 16 he was articled to architect William Boles, who happened to be his uncle. On the death of Boles the practice was taken over by Justelius in association with another architect, James Henry Bolster and traded under the name of Bolster & Justelius. The practice flourished to the extent that Justelius spent two years managing its branch office in Bathurst. The practice continued successfully until the1880s, when Justelius retired from it due to ill health. He worked for several years in the designing engineer’s department of the Board of Water Supply and Sewerage, then in 1907 resumed architectural practice. His son, E R Justelius, served his articles in the practice and after James Justelius died in 1923 or thereabouts, took over the running of it. Around the same time N D Frederick joined the office as chief draftsman and became a partner in the firm during 1935, at which time it started trading as J E & ER Justelius & Frederick. Minton House was not the only building in Kings Cross for which J E & E R Justelius were responsible. During 1924 the firm also documented alterations and additions to no’s 42, 54, 62a and 62b and 68 Darlinghurst Road.

Ownership of Minton House

In November 1926 the title to Minton House, which appears to have been completed in 1925, was transferred from Harold Taylor to a company, Minton House Proprietary Limited, which owned the building for many years afterwards. However, in February 1971 the title to the property was transferred once again, to Milchas Investments Pty Ltd. It is understood that it became used exclusively for commercial purposes from this time. The title to the property was transferred to Balrise Pty Limited around 1991.

Context of Minton House

Residential flats were by no means rare in the locality encompassing Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross and Potts Point by the time that Minton House was built. Relatively high building densities were already well established because of the terrace housing that came in the wake of early subdivision during the 1860s and afterwards. It is understood that the first purpose designed block of flats in the area was “Kingsclere”, located at the corner of Greenknowe Avenue and Macleay Street. Construction of flats continued through the rest of the decade then began to accelerate in the following decade. During the 1920s the City of Sydney experienced more flat construction than any other local government area in the state. Within its confines around half of the blocks of flats were built in Fitzroy Ward, and of these the majority were built in Kings Cross and localities close by. Generally residential accommodation in Kings Cross was relatively modest, unlike that of contemporary blocks of flats erected in Elizabeth Bay.

According to historian and academic Peter Kirkpatrick, during the 1920s Kings Cross began

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to become a focus for the artistically inclined. Writers had lived in Darlinghurst before but only for convenience’s sake. The popular perception of Darlinghurst was to change with the coming of flats to upper William Street and Potts Point, and the modern high-rise culture they brought with them: a new, ‘free’ style of city living which was perfectly suited to Bohemian habits. [Poet] Kenneth Slessor called these apartment buildings ‘the Alps of Darlinghurst’ .

Kings Cross was associated with influxes of migrants and sophisticated, artistic and cosmopolitan life from the 1930s. During the 1950s many visited it for its restaurants and cafes and the area was a focus of artistic activity. Although it saw decline during the 1970s through the 1980s, there has since been something of a resurgence of creative activity in the locality. The role of Minton House in the returning artistic influx is acknowledged by Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra "the offices of Minton House...evolved into a kind of unofficial headquarters in the 1990s for various [film] industry professionals." It echoes early associations that the area enjoyed with the film industry. For instance, the McDonagh sisters, important pioneering film makers during the second half of the 1920s and into the 1930s, are known to have lived in Kings Cross Road, while actors such as Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty lived and relaxed in the area during the 1930s and 1940s. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: J E & E R Justelius Maker / Builder: Not ascertained

Year Started: Year Completed: 1925 Circa: No

Physical Description: Minton House is a three storey building with shops at ground floor level and commercial suites occupying the first and second floors. A light court is located on the northern side of the building, while a cantilevered awning protects shopfronts. It is understood that parts of Alberto Terrace are incorporated into the building’s fabric. Its exterior is a restrained version of the Inter-War Free Classical style. The façades are substantially intact and are symmetrically designed. The Darlinghurst Road façade consists of alternating bays of paired windows and balconies (since enclosed) while the Bayswater Road façade contains groups of three windows separated and contained by panels of paired windows treated in a decorative manner. The splayed sections of façade at the street corner are also designed in the same way. These various treatments are echoed in the design of the parapet, which steps up above the balconies and decorative panels of windows. Finishes comprise cement rendered walls, timber framed double hung windows (most original sashes still in place), and cement mouldings within and around the decorative window panels, in cornices and as cartouches in some spandrels and at parapet level. Wall tiles have survived at ground floor level on the Kellett Street façade. Remnants of a pavement light are located outside 4 Bayswater Road. Another is located in Darlinghurst Road.

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Apart from the ground floor shops, all of which have been altered to greater or lesser degree, the interior of the building is remarkably intact, given the numbers of tenants that have occupied it since 1925. The plan of the first and second floor levels is still very much the same as indicated on the original architectural drawings. Many spaces have retained a substantial amount of original fabric that includes fibrous plaster ceilings and cornices, terrazzo flooring in ground floor and other common areas, and stair fabric including ceramic tile dados, terrazzo stair risers and treads and the wrought iron balustrades and timber handrails. Female toilets at ground floor level have retained ceramic wall tiles and terrazzo flooring. Some suites have retained timber joinery items such as doors, picture rails and in at least on instance a servery and a linen cupboard. Wall tiles from what were formerly bathrooms have survived in some spaces.

Physical Condition: The building is in good physical condition, having retained a large amount of original fabric. Intrusive elements such as fire services fitted internally and remnants of signage externally detract from the building’s appearance. It is unlikely that the site has archaeological potential.

Modification Dates: A comparison of the facades of Minton House with the original architectural drawings indicates that a great deal of early fabric has been retained, particularly in the first and second floor levels. The shopfronts have been subjected to continual modification as tenants and businesses have changed. Documented modifications include balcony enclosures (1946), alterations to the awning (1960) and change of use from residential to commercial premises (first and second floors), including male and female toilets and tea room (1972).

Modifications for which dates are not known include introduction of wrought metal balustrades and a solid section of balustrade within the balcony openings at first floor level and removal of decorative moulded embellishments in the parapet of the corner section of the façade. Recommended All conservation, adaptive reuse and future development should be undertaken in Management: accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter), 1999.

The buildings’ external appearance should be retained and conserved.

Extant external and internal building fabric that survives from the time when the building was originally constructed should be retained and conserved as a part of future reuse.

Changes to the use of the building may occur, but these should not affect the interpretation of its significance.

An appropriate use (or uses) should be found for the building that does not compromise its heritage significance. It is preferable for any adaptive reuse of the first floor and second floor to be accommodated to the existing plan configuration as much as possible. These parts of the building have greater heritage significance than the ground floor spaces.

Additions to the building should be confined to the light court on the northern side of the site

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and should be designed so that the configuration of the light court is still evident. There should be no additions at roof level, so that the building’s important contribution to Darlinghurst and Bayswater Roads is not diminished.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) Minton House provides evidence of the changing patterns of use and residence in Kings Cross during the 1920s. This was accompanied by the sale of Victorian era properties and their demolition or adaptation for residential and retail use during the decade. However, there are other buildings on either side of Darlinghurst Road between Bayswater Road and Macleay Street that can furnish similar evidence. Criteria b) Minton House was designed by the architectural firm of J E and E R Justelius, which was also responsible for the design of other buildings that formed part of the process of alteration and addition to Alberto Terrace. The firm designed a relatively large number of public houses in New South Wales during the 1920s and then during the 1930s (as Justelius & Frederick) and might be considered a competent though not exemplary commercial architectural practice of the period;

The building certainly has associations with significant individuals who have occupied and continue to occupy spaces in it who are prominent within the film industry. It is understood that the proximity of numbers of such individuals made the building a focus of independent film making from the end of the 1980s onwards;

Numbers of artists are claimed to have occupied parts of the building at some time. However, there is insufficient evidence to prove that this gives the building a high level of heritage significance. Buildings such as the Yellow House at 57-59 Macleay Street have far better claims to have been centres of artistic activity in the area. Certainly Kings Cross has been associated with a high level of artistic activity and endeavour since the 1920s;

Jose Ramos Horta occupied on room in the building while in exile in Sydney. However, while this is of interest in itself, the links between Horta and the building are those of convenience. The association is not one that can necessarily be claimed to have influenced the thoughts or actions of Mr Horta;

It can be argued that the building’s associations have less to do with an intrinsic quality of the building but from its capacity for many years to provide affordable rental that has

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attracted a large number of well known individuals from a particular industry.

Criteria c) Considering the turnover of tenants that a building such as Minton House would have experienced over the years, and the adaptations made to convert its residential levels into commercial space, the building has retained a relatively high level of original external and internal fabric. Comparison of its existing layout with the original architectural documentation prepared in the office of J E & E R Justelius establishes that its layout and spaces are largely intact.

Minton House is an important contributory item of the streetscape along Darlinghurst Road and at the intersection of Darlinghurst and Bayswater Road. Criteria d) Minton House has been associated with the independent film making industry since the second half of the 1980s, if not earlier. Criteria e) Minton House does not conform to this criterion.

Criteria f) Minton House does not conform to this criterion.

Criteria g) The architecture and surviving original building fabric of Minton House is representative of the mixed developments constructed in the City of Sydney during the 1920s, especially along major inner city thoroughfares such as Darlinghurst Road and William Street. Integrity / Intactness: Minton House demonstrates a relatively high level of integrity. Unsympathetic changes are largely capable of reversal.

References: Author Title Year J E & E R Justelius Building Application 583/24 1924 Rod Howard and Associates Minton House, Heritage Assessment Rreport 2004

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Item Name: Mary Andrews College

Location: 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown [Sydney City]

Address: 28 Carillon Avenue DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Newtown 2042 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Deaconess House

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Statement of No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown has state historic and social significance (associative). Significance: Formerly known as Deaconess House and now as Mary Andrews College, the site has been the headquarters and training college of the Anglican Deaconess Institution since 1916. Established in 1891, the Anglican Deaconess Institution provides services directed towards ministry training (for women) and care of the aged, sick and destitute. For many years, Deaconess House was the only training centre of its kind in Australia. It provides a rare example of a building constructed for the training of women for the Anglican ministry.

No. 28 Carillon Avenue has significance for its association with many notable individuals, including Mary Andrews, Head Deaconess and Principal of Deaconess House (1951-1975), for whom Deaconess House was renamed in 1997. The site has close and significant links with Moore Theological College.

No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown has local aesthetic significance. The c.1916 Deaconess House provides an example of a late Arts and Crafts Style building. With its arched openings and stone detailing, the building provides a more modest example of the ecclesiastical style influenced buildings that characterise Carillon Avenue. The otherwise positive contribution that the c.1916 building makes to the streetscape is compromised by the later (1950s- 1960s) three storey buildings also on the site and by the enclosure of its two storey verandah to the northern and eastern sides. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora.

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There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

The subject property stands on land once occupied by the Cadigal people, whose territory extended from Sydney Cove to the southern side of Port Jackson and south to modern day Petersham. The vast expanses of the eastern most region of the Cumberland Pans were referred to by the early European settlers as the Kangaroo Grounds or Bulananming. Game was hunted across the plains.

In August 1789, Governor Phillip set aside 1,000 acres for Church, School and Crown reserves. The subject property is located on part of 200 acres allotted for the support of a school teacher. When no action was taken to utilise the grant, the land reverted to the Crown. In 1801, the property became part of a grant made to the trustees of a female orphan institution. Five years later, in 1806, the trustees released the land in favour of a 1,000 acre grant at Bathurst. The property subsequently became part of a grant to Governor William Bligh. Bligh called his grant ‘Camperdown’ in commemoration of the English naval victory over the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown (Kamerduin) in 1797, in which he had been decorated. Camperdown was subsequently cleared and cultivated. Bligh’s descendants later subdivided and sold the grant. The first small lot subdivision in the Newtown area was that carried out by Bligh’s son in law, Sir Maurice O’Connell, in the 1840s.

Newtown developed slowly over the period to 1860. Well’s Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies (1848) described Newtown as a ‘beautiful village’ of about 323 houses and 1,215 inhabitants. Newtown Station was opened in 1855, the same year in which the University of Sydney was granted land at Camperdown and work began on the main quadrangle buildings. In 1861, the Municipality of Newtown was declared. At this time, the subject property became part of O’Connell Ward. Little actual development, however, occurred in the area immediately surrounding the subject site before 1880. The road tolls of Parramatta Road and Cooks River Road, and the shifting focus of Newtown after the opening of the Railway Station directed development elsewhere until later in the century.

Carillon Avenue was originally known as Bligh Street. The street, which first appears around 1865, originally ended at Nelson Street (now Little Queen Street). From this point onwards, it was a 10 foot wide track known as St. Paul’s Street, which linked St. Paul’s College with St. Stephen’s Church. The street was renamed Carillon Avenue in the 1920s, possibly to commemorate the Memorial Carillon in the University of Sydney’s Quadrangle tower. It is

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first listed under this name in John Sands Suburban Directories in 1929.

The line of Little Queen Street likewise dates from the mid nineteenth century. Originally known as Nelson Street, the section between Campbell Street and Newtown Road was formed before 1863. It was renamed Little Queen Street in 1896.

The history of the subject site before 1916 is not known. Two nineteenth century foot print plans, part of the Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series, indicate structures on the corner of Bligh (Carillon) Street and Nelson (Little Queen) Street (see Figures 1 and 2 in images). It is difficult to determine what these structures were and whether the site was listed (if at all) in John Sands Suburban Directories from Bligh Street or Nelson/Little Queen Street. Typical occupations for the residents of the southern side of Bligh Street and the eastern side of Little Queen Street during the 1880s and 1890s include contractor, cab proprietor, printer and clerk.

Newtown Rate Records for the years immediately preceding the use of the site by the Anglican Deaconess Institution indicates that it was privately owned. In 1915, for example, the owner was W.E. Shaw. Around 1916, the site became and remains associated with the Anglican Deaconess Institution.

The Anglican Deaconess Institution in Sydney can trace its origins to the Bethanien project patronised by Fredrick Wilhelm IV (1795-1861). Bethanien was established outside of Berlin in 1845 as a hospital and the central German Diaconate for the training of women for church work. From Germany the idea spread to England and to Sydney by way of the Rev. (later Canon) Mervyn Archdall (1846-1917) and his wife. In 1891, Archall founded ‘Bethanien’ or ‘ Bethany’ in Sydney along similar lines to its German and British counterparts, sacrificing one quarter of his income for the purpose. The initial impetus for the Institution had been provided by a resolution made at the 1885 Sydney Synod in favour of the work of Deaconesses and the ordination of the first Deaconess in July 1886. The first Deaconess Superintendent was Miss Maspero, who had received her training in London. A school, children’s home, domestic training school and Home of Peace were subsequently opened at various locations throughout Sydney. The movement was supported by groups of Associates and Junior Associates.

While each of the above activities had a permanent home- the Home of Peace, for example, was located at Addison Road, Marrickville- the parent Institution ‘wandered from centre to centre.’ The central headquarters were first established in Johnston Street, Balmain, from where it was relocated to Adoplphous Street, to Eweinton Street and then to Pitt Street, Redfern. Later head quarters were located at Lewisham, at City Road, Darlington and Queen Street, Newtown.

By 1915, £3,000 had been raised, mainly through donations and fund raising efforts, towards providing a permanent head quarters and training college. The subject site was chosen and purchased for £1,000. The adjoining block was subsequently donated to the Institution by two Trustees. The Deaconess reported on 24 May, 1916 that:

‘The new Deaconess House is mounting up, and if all goes well ought to be finished in about

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eight months time. There will not be much ground round the house for its was impossible to find a larger piece in the neighbourhood...to have a good, convenient modern house to live in, and it is a necessity to have suitable accommodation for the training of workers and the carry on of our present work.. We have eleven Deaconesses and students in our present house which makes us too crowded.’

On 24 July, 1916 The Deaconess reminded readers that:

‘(1) Our Deaconess House is the only Home in New South Wales for the training of Deaconesses or parochial women workers (2) It is not a new Institution, and has been worked quietly and well until it is known to be of great value... the clergy ask insistently for trained workers... (4) the Deaconess House, besides being a training home has workers going from it to nine parishes in Sydney, among them Waterloo, Alexandria, Surry Hills, Darlington, Cook’s River, and its branch works, the Home of Peace for the Dying and the Children’s Home.’

The contract price of the new building was around £5,000.

Deaconess House was opened on the afternoon on 6 December, 1916 by Mrs. Wright, wife of Archbishop John Charles Wright, with a dedication by the Bishop, the singing of hymns and an inspection of the new building. The Deaconess Superintendent at the time was Miss Pallister. The building was described in The Deaconess of 22 January 1917 as:

‘... a fine two storied building with wide balconies and accommodation for sixteen people. There is also a good lecture hall, jumble room and laundry...... Through the Furnishing Fund we have been able to furnish the house so far without an overdraft or calling on any other fund. Of course there are still a good many things we should like to have, and we might specially mention a lawn-mower. We have a good deal of grass around the house which the Deaconess and students undertake to cut...’

Deaconess House was first listed in Bligh Street in the Sands Directory of 1917. An undated photograph of Deaconess House was reproduced in the Jubilee edition of The Deaconess (1891-1941) and is reproduced as Figure 3 (in images).

The work at Deaconess House was supported by the staff at nearby Moore College, who gave lectures as part of the Deaconess Diploma Course. Graduates travelled throughout Australia and overseas. Prior to 1940, women could enrol in the same course as their male counter-parts at Moore College through the Australian College of Theology but attended their own lectures at Deaconess House. It was during the 1940s, that women were invited to join the men at Moore College. Since the 1980s, all women training for full time ministry studies have studied one course alongside the men at Moore College. Since 1993, women have jointly enrolled in the two colleges.

As indicated under ‘Modifications’ (see above), Deaconess House was enlarged on a

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number occasions. A footprint of the building in 1950, prior to the extensive works of later periods, is provided by Figure 4. Only one set of drawings, prepared by Thompson, Spooner and Dixon in 1960-1, have survived from this later work. These drawings provide a further footprint of the site at this time (Figure 4 in images).

The works involved in the 1960-1 application included a three storey extension to the rear, replacing the earlier building along Campbell Street (shown by Figure 5 in images) to provide a library, lecture hall and accommodation, the extension of the existing dining room within the 1916 building by the enclosure of the ground floor eastern verandah, and internal alterations to kitchens etc at the rear of the 1916 building.

Deaconess House is associated with many notable figures, not the least of whom is Mary Andrews, Head Deaconess and Principal of Deaconess House from 1951; 2-1975. In 1997, in recognition of her services, Deaconess House was renamed Mary Andrews College. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Communication (none) 4. Settlement Accommodation (Housing) (none) 6. Educating Education (none) 8. Culture Religion (none) 8. Culture Social institutions (none) 9. Phases of Life Persons (none)

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Year Started: Year Completed: 1916 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: Surrounding area: Carillon Avenue is dominated by educational/ecclesiastical institutions, including Newtown North Public School, St. Andrew’s College, St. Paul’s College, Women’s College (all part of the University of Sydney) and Moore College.

The site is located on the south eastern corner of Carillon Avenue and Little Queen Street. The site as a whole is Nos. 2-28 Carillon Avenue. The following describes the 1916 building on the site, known originally as Deaconess House, No. 28 Carillon Avenue.

The north western corner of the site (i.e. the area in front of the 1916 building) is defined by a low stepped brick fence with sandstone capped piers. The space between the piers is infilled with modern wire mesh fencing.

Exterior: The exterior presents as a modest two storey late Arts and Crafts Style building

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detailed with a number of ecclesiastical references. The building has a hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge capping. There are two prominent unequal gables to the Carillon Avenue elevation. The outer side of each gable is bracketed and the central valley is picked up by a rainwater head. The larger gable has quoined sandstone framed windows with brick arches above the lintels. The upper window has a herringbone pattern brickwork panel between the lintel and the brick arch. The smaller gable has a pointed sandstone arch to the entrance porch. The upper window has a pointed brick arch with a sandstone dedication panel below the sill. The eastern side of the elevation contains a two storey verandah with pointed arch openings to the ground floor and a more conventional post and beam verandah openings above. The openings have been glazed. The pointed arch openings of the front verandah ends to the eastern elevation have also been glazed.

The eastern (side) elevation has a bay window to the ground floor. There are decorative buttresses to this corner of the building. To the rear , this elevation is dominated by a two storey enclosed verandah. The balustrade of the upper level is finished in timber shingles.

The western (side) elevation is relatively unrelieved and consists of a series of double hung timber windows to both levels.

There are attached and detached three-four storey brick buildings/wings dating from the late 1950s through to the early 1980s to the rear of the 1916 building. Few of the building plans relating to these works are held by the City of Sydney Archives.

Interior: Not examined

Physical Condition: Good

Modification Dates: List of Applications made to the City of Sydney Archives: - Erection of additional storey and use for accommodation purposes, 1958. - Proposed future re-development of the property, 1958. Thompson, Spooner and Dixon. - Erection of a new three storey building, 1959. - Extensions to Deaconess House, 1960. B.H. Coleman and Fairburn, £52,700. This is the only set of building plans for the site to have survived.

They can be viewed at the City of Sydney Archives. - Proposed erection of a women’s students hostel, 1964. - Extensions to Deaconess House, 1965. J.J. Pettigrew, £62,600. - Extensions to Deaconess House, 1966. - Extensions to Deaconess House, 1972. Thompson, Spooner and Dixon, $26,000. - Fire upgrade services, 1989. Allen Jack & Cottier.

NB: Not all the above works would appear to have been carried out. There may have been other works to the site, given that the handwritten street cards can be difficult to interpret. Copies of most of the above applications are not held by the City of Sydney Archives. The Anglican Church Archives may hold further records.

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Recommended It is recommended that Mary Andrews College, formerly Deaconess House, 28 Carillon Management: Avenue, Newtown be listed as a heritage item as being of high historic (associative) and social significance and local aesthetic significance. Listing under these terms should not preclude further works on the site that further the work of the College.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: No archaeological assessment carried out

Criteria a) No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown has State historic (associative) significance under this criterion. Formerly known as Deaconess House and now as Mary Andrews College, the site has been the headquarters and training college of the Anglican Deaconess Institution from 1916. For many years, it was the only one of its kind in Australia. Criteria b) No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown has significance under this criterion for its association with Mary Andrews, Head Deaconess and Principal of Deaconess House (1951-1975). Deaconess House was renamed in her honour in 1997.

As the training college for the Anglican Deaconess Institution, Mary Andrews College is associated with many other notable individuals. Further research would identify these people. The site also has close connections with nearby Moore College.

Criteria c) No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown, formerly known as Deaconess House and now as Mary Andrews College, has local aesthetic significance . The two storey brick and tile c. 1916 building on the site provides a modest example of a late Arts and Crafts Style building. The simple form and face brickwork of the building is relieved through the use of stone and brickwork detailing. With its pointed arched openings and sandstone detailing, the building is a modest and smaller example of the ecclesiastical style influenced buildings along Carillon Avenue. The aesthetic significance of the c.1916 building is compromised by the later (1950s-1960s) three storey buildings also on the site and the enclosure of verandahs. Criteria d) No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown, formerly known as Deaconess House and now Mary Andrews College, has State significance under this criterion. From 1916 onwards, it has been used for training women in the Anglican ministry. For a long period, it was the only such training available to women in Australia. There is a large body of people (former students, staff etc) who have an ongoing connection with the site. Criteria e) No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown is not of technical significance. While the interior of the building was not examined, surviving plans indicate that internal alterations have been carried out.

The site is largely of associative significance with regard to research significance.

Criteria f) No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown, provides a rare example of an ecclesiastical building designed specifically for the training of women for the Anglican ministry. Criteria g) No. 28 Carillon Avenue, Newtown, is one of many sites with a long term association with the Anglican Church. The c.1916 building on the site provides a representative example of a modest late Arts and Crafts Style building. It it/It t Th it di l i d d f i t it Th i i l f i h b difi d d th State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 7

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Integrity / Intactness: 1960s buildings dominate the original 1916 Deaconess House.

In and of itself, Deaconess House displays a high degree of external integrity. The basic form and detailing of the original c.1916 building has survived intact. The inclosure of verandahs is not sympathetic but is reversible.

The interior was not examined. Surviving building plans indicate internal modifications.

References: Author Title Year Newtown Archive Project (Streets) City of Sydney Civic Survey: Darlington 1950 (Frame 1950 21(27)) Building Cards (Carillon Avenue) Anglican Deaconess Institution Deaconess Institution The Deaconess: Fifty Years of Service Illustrated, 1891- 1941 1941 NSW Lands Department Sydney Metropolitan Detail Series, Newtown, Section 1 1897 Ryan, Marie Newtown Municipality 1862-1892: Subdivision, Land Use and Services. A Thesis Submitted to the Department of History, University of Sydney in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts

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Item Name: Hollis Park, bound by Wilson Street, Fitzroy Stre

Location: 168-184 Wilson Street, Newtown [Sydney City]

Address: 168-184 Wilson Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Newtown 2042 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Item Type: Landscape Group: Parks, Gardens and Category: Urban Park Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of Hollis Park has local historic significance as the former Newtown Municipality’s first Significance: dedicated public park. Hollis Park represents the culmination of Council’s repeated attempts over many years to secure a park site within the closely packed terrace housing that made the provision of open space and a children’s playground important. Hollis Park has significance as part of the celebrations of the 1912 Municipal Jubilee and was a tangible expression of local pride in the development of the area.

Hollis Park has historic significance for its commemoration of two locally important figures, Mr. Robert Hollis, MLA, for whom the Park was named, and Mr. Warren Ball, to whom an obelisk memorial was erected in the early 1930s.

Hollis Park has high local aesthetic significance as a rare example of a small, municipal park in the Newtown area. The open space of the Park is integral to the surrounding streetscape. A direct relationship exists between the Park and the grand terrace houses along Warren Ball Avenue and Georgina Street and the more modest terraces of Wilson and Fitzroy Streets.

The surviving fig tree planting along Fitzroy Street is of historic and aesthetic significance. This formal planting defines the Park’s edge and provides a remnant of a perimeter planting scheme that would have reinforced the philosophy of park design in the 1890s. Similarly, the fig tree street planting along Georgina Street has significance. These plantings probably date from the early interwar period. They extend the Park in this direction and create a link with King Street. Hollis Park has social significance for the local residents who use it. State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 1

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Location: 168-184 Wilson Street, Newtown [Sydney City]

Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

Hollis Park stands on land once occupied by the Cadigal people, whose territory extended from Sydney Cove to the southern side of Port Jackson and south to modern day Petersham. The site is located within the geological unit known as the Wianamatta Group. The shale geology supported stands of Blackbutt and Turpentine. The native timber was cleared by European activity; none of the indigenous vegetation survives on the site.

Early European History

In August 1789, Governor Phillip set aside 1,000 acres for Church, School and Crown reserves. The subject property is located on part of 200 acres allotted for the support of a school teacher. When no action was taken to utilise the land, the grant reverted to the Crown. In 1801, the property became part of a grant made to the trustees of a female orphan institution. Five years later, in 1806, the trustees released the grant in favour of a grant of 1,000 acres at Bathurst. The property subsequently became part of a grant to Governor William Bligh. Bligh called his grant ‘Camperdown’ in commemoration of the English naval victory over the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown (Kamerpduin) in 1797, in which he had been decorated. The grant was subsequently cleared and cultivated.

Bligh’s descendents sold part of Camperdown, including the site of Hollis Park, to John Icke Kettle in 1846. Kettle in turn subdivided and sold part of his estate, in 1851 and again in 1882. The Kettle Estate is clearly shown by the c.1890s Municipal Plan, Figure 1.

Between 1830 and 1890, Newtown developed into a favoured location for residential development and, along King Street, for commercial development. The site now Hollis Park was associated during this period with several residential developments, the first being ‘ Cambridge Hall’, a Colonial Regency Style house that once stood on the corner of Georgina and King Streets. ‘Cambridge Hall’ was associated with a large allotment containing a pleasure ground and a road called L’Avenue, running off King Street and now part of Georgina Street and Warren Ball Avenue.

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Location: 168-184 Wilson Street, Newtown [Sydney City]

The streets which define Hollis Park have their origins in the mid to late nineteenth century. Wilson Street was formed in the 1840s and 1850s; it did not, however, initially extend past Erskineville Lane. The section near to Hollis Park was widened in 1887. The street was possibly named for ironmonger Felix Wilson, who occupied a John Verge designed villa nearby. Fitzroy Street first appears in 1867. It was named for Sir Charles August FitzRoy, Governor of New South Wales from 1846-1855. Georgina Street first appears in 1889 and was part of a residential development by Alderman Brock. This street was developed as a 66 ft wide boulevard and is thought to have been named for his daughter; alternative theories suggest that it was named for Georgina Kettle. Warren Ball Avenue was originally known as Kettle Street and later L’Avenue or, in John Sands Suburban Directories, L’ Avenue Park. L’Avenue was formed in the early 1890s, also as part of Alderman Brock’s subdivision. Resumed in 1912, it was renamed Warren Ball Avenue in honour of a notable local resident by 1922.

The Metropolitan Detail Series Plan of 1889 for this section of Newtown (Figure 2) indicates the level of development surrounding the future park site at this time. As noted above, Georgina Street had yet to be formed. Three years after the survey was prepared, part of modern day Hollis Park, was resumed for public school purposes (1892).

The Creation of Hollis Park

Newtown was incorporated as a municipality on 12 December, 1862. The Council were active in pursuing municipal amenities, including securing space for public parks. The densely packed terraces of the municipality, however, left little room for open space. While Council made frequent approaches to the NSW Government for land for public recreation purposes, no major parks were established in the Municipality in the nineteenth century. Residents of Newtown thus had to travel outside the area to find a public park.

Council’s efforts to obtain land for public parks were discussed in some length in the Jubilee Souvenir published to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Municipality in 1912. By this time, only small parcels of land or land associated with public schools, were available for the creation of a public park. The playgrounds associated with local schools, however, were considered to be inadequate:

‘Sport of all kinds is severely handicapped in our public schools in Newtown by reasons of very meagre ‘playground’ space...the playing space is ridiculously and dangerously small, amounting to but little more than ‘standing room only’…In most grounds, one couldn’t swing a cat round- with any degree of safety to the cat.’

On 7 November, 1911, Council’s Finance Committee and the Newtown Playgrounds Committee recommended that the Minister for Public Instruction be asked to dedicate the land at the corner of Wilson and Fitzroy Streets for a children’s playground. Concurrently, it was recommended that the land on both sides of the North Kingston Public School be resumed to enlarge the playground. Council offered to fence the land and supervise it as a playground on the condition that a long lease at a nominal rent be agreed to. The

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Department accepted these conditions and Council voted £90 for the preparation of the playground. As reported in the Jubilee Souvenir of 1912, the grounds and playground were developed from 1912:

‘The lease has now been entered into, and the Council’s workmen are preparing the ground, so as to make it available for the children. Though the space is limited, and in rather an obscure part of the municipality, still it will answer the purpose for the locality. The terms of the lease are a peppercorn rental for ten years...’

Some means of public access to this ‘obscure’ location was provided by the trams of the Metropolitan Green Line which ran along Wilson Street. Of the surrounding streets, only Fitzroy and Wilson Streets were kerbed and guttered at the time that Hollis Park was created. The Park was, however, surrounded by an established and distinct pattern of housing. During the Late Victorian period, rows of grand terrace houses had been constructed along the western side of Georgina Street and the northern side of L’Avenue (Warren Ball Avenue) which not only addressed the Park, but also the panoramic views of the Botany Basin beyond. The buildings along Warren Ball Avenue were constructed between 1885 and 1890, with lawns, pleasures grounds and extensive stabling.

Work to the Park was ongoing. In 1913, the paths in Hollis Park were asphalted, additional seats added and the banks graded. As reported in the 1922 Diamond Jubilee Souvenir:

‘A sum of £ 569 8s. 7d.- one quarter of the cost- was contributed by Council in 1913 towards the acquisition by the Government of land at L’Avenue to be converted into a children’s playground- this congested area being very badly need of such playing space. It was fitted with swings, see-saws, sand bins, etc., etc. One section was reserved for children 7 years and under. The Council had previously taken control of the L’Avenue thoroughfares, footways etc. Reconstruction proceeded promptly; and one of the most neglected spots in the district was transformed into the most attractive and picturesque area in the Municipality. And all the time this delightful spot has received the attention of council with a view to its upkeep and betterment.’

Hollis Park was officially proclaimed on 4 June, 1913 and dedicated on 8 April, 1914. The name commemorates Mr. Robert Hollis, M.L.A, a Newtown resident since 1884 and Vice President of the Newtown Jubilee Committee. Hollis was a member of the Labor Party and instrumental in forming the first Labor League in NSW in Newtown in 1891. In addition, he was the General Secretary of the Locomotive Engine-Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners Association, as well as Hon. Secretary to the Federated Locomotive Enginemen’s Association of Australasia.

Hollis Park was first noted in the John Sands Suburban Directory of 1915. The listing reads ‘L ’Avenue Park (off Georgina Street) Infants Playground.’ Curiously, the name ‘Hollis Park’ does not appear until the last published directory of 1932-3.

Hollis Park has been variously administered by the Municipal Council of Newtown, South Sydney Council and the City of Sydney Council. Dating the layout and plantings in the Park is difficult. Existing plantings date from three main periods: the early 1890s (including the periphery plantings of Moreton Bay Figs which may have been originally planted to the

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entire perimeter of the Park), the late 1940s to the early 1950s (including the planting of Lombardy Poplars, Brush Box, Kaffir Plums and Queensland Firewheel trees) and the 1970s (including the planting of Australian native species). The Park may also have benefited from a immediate post World War I (1919-1920) tree planting scheme when hundreds of trees were sent from the Royal Botanic Gardens to Newtown Council. Some of the original street tree plantings in Georgina Street may have occurred at this time to establish an obvious link between the Park and King Street. Figure 3 is a plan showing the chronological development of planting as prepared by Craig Burton in 1990.

Various built elements have been erected in Hollis Park over time. Council erected a obelisk to Mr. Warren Ball, a prominent Newtown Councillor, business man and philanthropist (d.1932) at the intersection of Georgina and Warren Ball Avenue in 1932; L’Avenue had been renamed for Warren Ball by 1922. In 1947, a National Fitness Centre was established in the Park. A shelter shed that once stood in the upper section of the Park may have been part of this centre or may have been part of the original Park layout. A men’s toilet was designed by the City Council’s Principal Architect, Albert A. Smillie and opened in 1952 when the Park was under the control of the Parks and Recreations Department. A new parks depot building, including staff facilities, was constructed, on the western side of the Park in 1957. Fencing along the children’s playground to Warren Ball Avenue was relocated in 1960. Under the care of South Sydney Council, the children’s playground was surfaced with asphaltic concrete in 1971. Other landscaping and planting works were carried out during the 1970s, including the replacement of existing garden beds, the addition of sawn sandstone steps and paths and the walling along Wilson Street. The esteem that the Park was held in by the local residents was expressed in letters to Council in the mid 1970s when trees were removed and the Moreton Bay figs were severely pruned.

The National Trust recognised the cultural significance of Hollis Park in 1981 by including it in a listing of the Hollis Park Conservation Area. The area was later listed on the South Sydney LEP as a Conservation Area. A plan of management was prepared by Craig Burton for South Sydney Council in November 1990 and further works carried out in accordance with it. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Environment - cultural land (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none) 6. Educating Education (none) 8. Culture Leisure (none) 9. Phases of Life Events (none) 9. Phases of Life Persons (none)

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Item Name: Hollis Park, bound by Wilson Street, Fitzroy Stre

Location: 168-184 Wilson Street, Newtown [Sydney City]

Maker / Builder: Council of the Municipality of Newtown

Year Started: 1913 Year Completed: Circa: No

Physical Description: Hollis Park is bounded by Warren Ball Avenue to the north, Wilson Street to the south, Fitzroy Street to the east and Georgina Street to the west. The Park slopes from north to south. The majority of the Park is open grassed areas, with shallow terracing of low brick walls. The Wilson Street boundary is formed by a rendered retaining wall. A substantial set of sandstone stairs lead from Wilson Street towards a large circular brick walled garden bed in the centre of the Park. Narrower paths radiate outwards from this central bed (with stairs) towards the boundary streets. All paths are of bitumen with bull nose brick edging. A row of mature fig trees line the Park edge to Fitzroy Street. A second row runs down the centre of Georgina Street, parallel to the Park. Garden beds and single/group trees define the other boundaries.

There is a fenced children’s playground in the north western corner of the Park. The Warren Ball Memorial, a granite obelisk on a sandstone base, is located close by, near the corner of Warren Ball Avenue and Georgina Street. At the corner of Warren Ball Avenue and Fitzroy Street is one half of a pair of sandstone posts. The name ‘L’Avenue’ is incised into the post. The corresponding post (now painted) lies on the other side of Warren Ball Avenue. A third, smaller, post nearby on the Fitzroy Street boundary may have once been part of a palisade fence.

The immediate setting is residential. Warren Ball and Georgina Street are dominated by large mid to late Victorian terraces. The terraces along Wilson and Fitzroy Streets are more modest in scale. The Park also lies in close proximity to commercial and industrial land uses. To the north, is the major arterial road and commercial precinct of King Street and to the south, in the distance, are the Eveleigh Railway yards and the light industry of Erskineville and Alexandria.

Physical Condition: Good

Modification Dates: Plantings can be divided into five main periods: 1892; 1940-50; 1960s; 1970s; 1990

Built works: + Warren Ball Memorial erected 1932. + Men’s Toilet Block, 1952. Demolished after 1990 works to site. + Parks depot building, 1957. Demolished after 1990 works to site. + Landscaping and planting works, c.1970s including the replacement of existing garden beds, the addition of sawn sandstone steps and paths and the walling along Wilson Street. + After 1990: removal of the above buildings. Relocation of the children’s playground to existing site. Relocation and refinishing paths, planting and new retaining wall to part of Wilson Street. Recommended Hollis Park should be listed as a local heritage item. The Park has local historic, Management: associative, aesthetic and social significance. It is rare to the local area. Further research may well reveal more about its development and associative significance.

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Item Name: Hollis Park, bound by Wilson Street, Fitzroy Stre

Location: 168-184 Wilson Street, Newtown [Sydney City]

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: Archaeological potential: Not assessed

Criteria a) Hollis Park has local historic significance as the former Newtown Municipality’s first dedicated park. The closely packed terrace housing that characterised the development of nineteenth century Newtown made the provision of open space and a children’s playground important. The rapid development of the area during the nineteenth century, however, meant that there was limited space available. Hollis Park was the culmination of Council’s repeated attempts over many years to secure a park site. The Park is associated with the celebrations of the 1912 Municipal Jubilee and was a tangible expression of local pride in the development of the area. The Hollis Park Management Plan (1990) has identified individual items of significance within the Park (Figure 4). Criteria b) Hollis Park has local historic significance for its commemoration of two locally important figures, Mr. Robert Hollis, MLA, for whom the Park was named, and Mr. Warren Ball, to whom an obelisk memorial was erected in the early 1930s.

Criteria c) Hollis Park has high local aesthetic significance. Open spaces are rare in the densely developed streets of Newtown. Unlike other recreational areas within the former Newtown Municipality, Hollis Park has the character of a small neighbourhood park. The open space of the Park is an integral part of the surrounding streetscape. A direct relationship exists between the Park and the symmetrical composition of the grand terrace houses along Warren Ball Avenue (formerly L’Avenue) and Georgina Street. The surviving fig tree planting along Fitzroy Street is of historic and aesthetic significance. Their formal planting defines the Park’s edge and provides a remnant of a perimeter planting scheme that would have reinforced the philosophy of park design in the 1890s. Similarly, the fig tree street plantings along Georgina Street have significance. These plantings probably date from the early interwar period. They extent the Park in this direction and create a link with King Street. Criteria d) Hollis Park has social significance for the (mainly) local residents who use it.

Criteria e) Hollis Park does not have significance under this criterion.

Criteria f) Hollis Park provides a rare local example of a small suburban park within the immediate area. Other areas of open space in this part of Sydney, including Camperdown Park, Camperdown Memorial Rest Park and Erskineville Oval, are larger in size and or associated with particular sporting activities. The aesthetic relationships between the Park and the surrounding terraces is rare in the inner Sydney suburbs. Criteria g) Hollis Park is representative of a small Sydney suburban park.

Integrity / Intactness: Hollis Park today is a combination of work carried out since the late 1890s. Some of these phases of work can be determined through analysis; few are documented.

References: Author Title Year Boroughs of Glebe, Camperdown, Newtown, 1890 Macdonaldtown and Darlington Burton, Craig Hollis Park: Management Plan (unpublished report 1990 prepared for South Sydney Council)

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Municipality of Newtown Council Diamond Jubilee Souvenir of the Municipality of Newtown, 1922 1863-1922 Municipality of Newtown Council Jubilee Souvenir of the Municipality of Newtown, 1863- 1912 1912

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Caption: Figure 1: Detail from Boroughs of Glebe, Camperdown, Newtown, Macdonaldtown and Darlington, c.1890s. Demonstrating the location of Kettle’s Estate, ‘Cambridge Hall’, the grand terraces in L’Avenue (Warren Ball Avenue) and Georgina Street. Copyright: Image by: History and Archive of Newtown, City of Sydney Archives (online). Image Date: Image Number: Image Path: Image File: 2431107a.jpg Thumb Nail Path: Thumb Nail File:

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Item Name: Olympia Theatre (former)

Location: 1-11 Oxford Street, Paddington [Sydney City]

Address: 1-11 Oxford Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Paddington 2021 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Olympia Theatre; West’s Theatre; Odeon Theatre; Mandala Theatre

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Statement of The Academy Twin Cinema is significant because of its associations with TJ West, an Significance: important pioneer of Australia’s film industry and its associations with the prominent architect John Kirkpatrick. It has historical significance as Sydney’s first twin cinema, the Academy Twin, and has been an important focus of community activity since it opened as the Olympia Theatre at the end of 1911. Occupants have offered movie entertainment almost continuously since that time. It is the oldest cinema in Paddington (which has been served by a relatively large number of cinemas over the years) to remain in almost constant use, albeit in a modified form. It is possible that the building has some importance to the Greek community because of its associations with the Greek Orthodox community. It provides evidence of the presence of the Greek community in the locality.

The Academy Twin Cinema has aesthetic significance on account of its architectural expression, which demonstrates characteristics of the Federation Free Classical, and. is a prominent contributory element within the streetscape on account of its scale, architectural expression and its visual associations with the nearby Beauchamp Hotel at 265 267 Oxford Street . Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

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Location: 1-11 Oxford Street, Paddington [Sydney City]

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The site of 1-11 Oxford Street was for many years occupied by Marshall’s Paddington Brewery, but before this was part of a grant of land made to Mrs Maria Zouch on 30 April 1840. Mrs Zouch did not retain it in her possession for many months – she and her husband Henry sold the land to Joseph Newton about seven months later. Newton didn’t keep it for very long either, for at least part of the land was sold at auction to Edward Dormer O’Reilly in April 1841. After changing hands a couple more times this property was acquired by Joseph Marshall, described on title documents as a “chemist and druggist”, in May 1853.

Marshall was born in Yorkshire and arrived in Australia in 1840. After spending some time in South Australia he moved to Sydney and set up a business as a chemist. Initially making beer for private use, it became sufficiently sought after for him to purchase land in Paddington, build a house for himself and his family and construct a small brewery, which was founded in 1857, although Marshall’s Brewery first appears in the 1865 edition of Sand’ s Directory. In January 1869 Marshall acquired a triangular block of land bound by Oxford Street (or the South Head Old Road as it was then called), Dowling Street and a reserved road near his earlier property. The reserved road became known as Marshall Street. In August 1877. Marshall subsequently purchased a further parcel of land with a frontage to Marshall Street.

Joseph Marshall died in 1884, leaving one of Sydney’s largest breweries in the control of his sons Joseph, James and Thomas. In July 1888 the business was floated as a limited company, and the title to the Paddington property was transferred to Marshall’s Paddington Brewery Limited. Evidence suggests that Marshall’s Paddington Brewery purchased additional land at the beginning of the 1890s before the property was converted to Torrens Title in1892. The entire brewery site was amalgamated onto one title on 8 July 1898. James Marshall retired in 1901. In February 1904 the business was restructured to become Marshall ’s Co-operative Brewery Ltd. An offer was made to purchase the site in 1909 then on 18 November 1910 its title was transferred over to a concern known as Olympia Limited. The brewery operations were moved to a site in Leichhardt but shortly after its interests were acquired by Tooth & Co.

On 21 November 1910 Olympia Limited formalised an agreement with Wests Limited, although it is possible that both companies were part of the same organisation. Wests Limited was a company founded by T J West, a Scot who arrived in Australia in 1905. He is reputed to have been the first person in this country to commission buildings especially designed for the screening of moving pictures. West acquired the lease of Wirth’s Olympia Stadium in Melbourne and the name “Olympia” was subsequently associated with his

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Location: 1-11 Oxford Street, Paddington [Sydney City]

theatres. In 1908 he opened a cinema in Hindley Street, Adelaide (reputedly Australia’s largest), and then went on to open cinemas in Brisbane and Perth. However, the Paddington building is considered to be the most famous of all the cinemas associated with West. He formed West’s Film Exchange, which quickly became one of the largest such businesses in the country. In 1912 West and two other leading film exhibitors of the day met to consider a merger of their interests and the prominent corporation known as Union Theatres Limited (later to become Greater Union) was subsequently formed. TJ West died in 1916.

The new cinema was completed in 1911 to the design of architect John Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick (1856-1923) was born in Albury. He was articled to the important architect Edmund Blacket before setting up his own practice in 1880. By the age of twenty three he is said to have been responsible for designing some fifty six buildings that included shops, warehouses, residences insurance buildings and Masonic halls. He designed the original part of the Carrington Hotel at Katoomba and between 1880 and 1890 came first in at least ten different architectural competitions. Kirkpatrick’s major buildings included the Mutual Life Insurance building in Martin Place, the completion of Sydney Hospital and hospitals in Goulburn and Bathurst, and the Commonwealth Bank Building at the corner of Pitt Street and Martin Place (possibly as a result of the influence of his cousin Denison Miller, a governor of the Bank). He was chairman of the committee established to recommend a site for the national capital and was one of the judges who recommended acceptance of Walter Burley Griffin’s scheme for Canberra. Kirkpatrick was commissioned to design war service homes in partnership with his son Herwald, and over 1,700 were constructed between 1918 and 1922.

The cinema is understood to have opened on the evening of 26 December 1911. The building did not simply house a cinema, however. The section known as Olympia Chambers included shops at ground floor level and small business and commercial tenancies on the first floor level. The building was of brick and reinforced concrete construction.

The cinema was leased to Wests Limited until July 1932, when a lease with Greater Union (Extension) Limited was signed. A notice of resumption for road widening was issued on 5 June 1940 but this did not affect the theatre building, only a minor part of the overall site (to the east of the theatre). The remaining site was subdivided and a section sold during October 1951. The cinema remained in the possession of Olympia Pty Limited.

The cinema was known as the Odeon during 1953-54 if not afterwards. Screening of movies ceased during 1960 and the building was sold to The Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales in May 1966. The Community had an already well established presence in the area, having built the Cathedral of St Sophia in South Dowling Street during the 1920s. The theatre subsequently reopened as the Mandala Cinema, which became famous as the home of cult and rock films, in 1969 but closed yet again in 1972. The building was totally gutted and rebuilt as shops, offices, flats, a restaurant and a community centre for the Greek Orthodox Community. Sydney’s first twin cinema complex, which was leased to Academy Theatres Pty Limited and was known as the Academy Twin Theatre, formed part of the development. By 1982 the building was known as Greek Community House. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

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Location: 1-11 Oxford Street, Paddington [Sydney City]

4. Settlement Land tenure (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none) 8. Culture Leisure (none)

Designer: John Kirkpatrick Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1911 Circa: No

Physical Description: 1-11 Oxford Street is a large three storey building located on a prominent corner site. The facades of the building above ground floor level, external wall surfaces of which are lined with cement render, demonstrate characteristics of the Federation Free Style.

Monotony is avoided in the long Oxford Street façade by means of breaking it into several sections although the repetitive nature of its fenestration is quite relentless – single window openings containing double hung sashes, with restrained decorative mouldings forming window sills and embellishments above the heads of window openings. Intermediate sections of the façade are interrupted by shallow projecting bays of single windows with stepped parapets above; the cornice line below the parapet is interrupted at these bays. The eastern end of the Oxford Street façade also features a stepped parapet rising above the rest of the façade, which incorporates a semi-circular cornice. Windows in this section of the façade are “framed by piers that are embellished with decorative mouldings.

The splayed section that addresses the street corner (and contains the major entry to the building) features a semicircular cornice below a high stepped parapet and wide piers on either side with sunken panels containing decorative plaques at high level. The bay at the western end of the Oxford Street façade and the northern end of the South Dowling Street façade incorporate a semi-circular group of windows window at second floor level with decorative mouldings below sills. Similar mouldings are situated below the sills of windows along the South Dowling Street façade.

Several shopfronts in the eastern section of the Oxford Street façade feature colourful ceramic tile linings to stall boards and piers. They, along with entries to other parts of the building, are protected by suspended awnings. The most prominent awning marks the entry to the community centre, at the street corner.

Physical Condition: The building is in good condition.

Modification Dates: The most conspicuous modification to the building has been the removal of the domed canopy over the main entrance to the building on the corner of Oxford and Dowling Streets and its replacement by a suspended awning. This took place at some time after January 1938. Early lettering and signage above the canopy has also been removed.

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The auditorium was refurbished during the 1930s, probably by the end of 1936. These modifications have been replaced by later refurbishments and modifications.

The shopfronts along Oxford Street have also been modified – ceramic tiles associated with the shopfronts indicate that this was probably done around World War II or during the early post-war period. Further change has taken place since then to some shopfronts.

The following applications have been made to Council for modifications to the building:

1949: Building application – “engine room” for emergency lighting. 1953: Building application – alterations. 1957: Development application – use of part of premises as a sandwich shop. 1960: Building application – modifications to shopfront. 1963: Development application – alterations to adapt building as a restaurant and music hall. 1965: Development application – use of premises as a hall fro the Greek Orthodox Community. 1966: Development applications – use of premises as cinema and for theatrical entertainment; ; use of premises for theatre, shops and committee rooms; building application – alterations. 1967: Building application – modifications to shopfront. 1968: Development applications – use of part premises as a smallgoods shop and refreshment room; use of part premises for manufacture and sale of leather goods. 1970: Building application – alterations; development application – use of part of premises as a refreshment room. 1971: Development application – construction of twin cinema 1972: Building application – alterations to Mandala Theatre 1976: Development application –use of first floor as a licensed restaurant. 1977: Building applications – door opening to basement level, alterations on the ground floor level; development application – use part of ground floor as dress shop with access to basement. 1983: Development application - use part of building for sale of clothing. Recommended •All conservation, adaptive reuse and future development should be undertaken in Management: accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter). •The building should be listed as a heritage item by the City of Sydney. •A Conservation Management Strategy should be prepared for the entire building to ensure that future change is managed in a coordinated fashion. •Retain and conserve all intact original external and internal building fabric and the external appearance of the building. •Retain and conserve original awning fabric. •Encourage owners to reconstruct the original canopy associated with the main entrance, based on available documentary evidence. •Encourage owners to apply a paint scheme appropriate to the age and architectural character of the building. •Retain and conserve all original external and internal ground floor fabric and circa 1940s tiling on the Oxford Street shop fronts.

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•There should be no further additions at roof level. •Detailing of new fabric should respect the integrity and existing character of the building and its original fabric.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments:

Criteria a) Of the ten or so theatres that have been built in Paddington, the Academy twin cinema is one of only three still in operation and the oldest to remain in almost constant use, albeit in a modified form.

The building has historical significance as Sydney’s first twin cinema, the Academy Twin, which opened around 1973. Criteria b) The Academy Twin Cinema is significant because of its associations with TJ West, an important pioneer of Australia’s film industry, and its associations with the prominent architect John Kirkpatrick.

Criteria c) The Academy Twin Cinema has aesthetic significance on account of its architectural expression, which demonstrates characteristics of the Federation Free Classical.

The building is a prominent contributory element within the streetscape on account of its scale and architectural expression. Its visual associations with the Beauchamp Hotel at 265 267 Oxford Street also contribute to the architectural qualities of this section of Oxford Street. Criteria d) The building has been an important focus of general community activity since the Olympia Theatre opened at the end of 1911 and has offered movie entertainment almost continuously since that time.

It is possible that the building has some importance to the Greek community because of its associations with the Greek Orthodox community. It provides evidence of the presence of the Greek community in the locality. Criteria e) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria f) The building is a rare surviving purpose designed cinema in this part of metropolitan Sydney that, although substantially modified internally, still provides a venue for movie goers. Criteria g) The exterior of the building is representative of Federation Free Style architecture.

Integrity / Intactness: The exterior of the building has retained a relatively large amount of early and original fabric.

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Location: 1-11 Oxford Street, Paddington [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Kings Cross Hotel

Location: 248 William Street, Potts Point [Sydney City]

Address: 248 William Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Potts Point 2011 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Address: 248 William Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Kings Cross 2011 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Hotel Victoria

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Hotel Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Hotel Former Uses: Hotel

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance: Local

Statement of The Kings Cross Hotel is a good representative example of a Federation Free Classical Significance: Style hotel building displaying many of the key elements of the style, and is a landmark building on a key corner on William Street that marks the gateway to Kings Cross. It is associated with Tooheys Brewery Ltd and prominent architect E. Lindsay Thompson who designed a number of hotels and additions to hotels in the Federation and inter-war periods. The demoliton of the previous hotel on the site and the erection of the current buidling demonstrates the widening of William St and the intervention of the City Council in seeking to improve the city. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but

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there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The first land grant in the area, of 30 acres covering today's Potts Point, was made to Patrick Walsh, an Irish ex-convict, in 1809. Governor Macquarie revoked that land grant in 1822, granted the land to Mr. Drennan, however later brought the land back under Crown control for establishment of huts for local aboriginal people. Macquarie gave the name Elizabeth Town (after his wife) to the area. After Macquarie's departure, Elizabeth Town was divided into land grants for important public servants who were encouraged to build grand villas. These included Sir John Wylde Judge Advocate, 1822 and Alexander Macleay, Colonial Secretary. The final name of the area Potts Point came from association with Joseph Hyde Potts, Clerk of the Bank of NSW, who purchased six and a half acres in the area.

The line of Victoria Street is first shown on Edward Hallens Plan of 1842 " shewing the position of the new streets at Darlinghurst."

The Tivoli Estate of 1867, Challis Estate of 1889 and various smaller subdivisions along Victoria Street represent the earliest layer of intensive residential development in the area. Subdivision of the early mansion estates occurred in the early twentieth century. with Tusculum 1901, Campbell Lodge 1910, Grantham Estate, 1922 and Orwell House 1921. Many of the grand houses of the period remained until the 1930’s when many were replaced by flat buildings. A further group were demolished in the 1960’s , including Tarmons on the site of St Vincent's College, such that only four sites with grand villas remain today in Potts Point/Darlinghurst.

In the 1970s Potts Point became the focus of green bans over development plans for Victoria Street which were lodged in October 1971. Many residents on the city side of the street had already moved out, as the principal developer, Frank Theeman's Victoria Point Pty. Ltd. offered them favourable terms. The NSW Builders and Labourers Federation imposed green bans in sympathy with local resident activists, including Juanita Nielson who lived in Vcitoria Street, opposing the demolition of the area's historic terrace housing and there was a protracted battle with the developers until 1976, when a new plan called for the restoration of 22 of 32 houses with a 10 storey complex behind them and the green bans were lifted.

The Kings Cross Hotel was erected in 1918 to the design of E. Lindsay Thompson for Tooheys Brewery and a replaced a four storey brick hotel building with slate roof demolished as part of the widening of William Street. E. Lindsay Thompson was a

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prominent architect who designed a number of hotels and additions to hotels in the Federation and inter-war periods. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 8. Culture Leisure (none)

Designer: E. Lindsay Thompson Maker / Builder: Not ascertained

Year Started: Year Completed: 1918 Circa: No

Physical Description: Five storey Federation Free Style hotel building erected c. 1918, located on a prominent intersection of William St and Darlinghurst Rd . Has a landmark tower on the corner which is aprominent styllines feature and distinctive Juliet balconies. Façade above gorund floor level features timber double hung windows and painted brickwork with rendered detailing including balconies and conrcies. The name of the hotel is inscribed in a rendered panel on the splay corner.

Externally the building is relatively intact although the roof of the tower has been removed, external brickwork has been painted and a detracting addition erected in front of the building on William St elevation in 1981.

Internally the building has been substantially altered. Key remnant elements include the lift car, structure of the lift well and enclosing stairs, pressed metal ceilings, metal lathe and render walls on the second level , remnant fireplaces and joinery. Level 2 is the most intact level.

Physical Condition: Fair

Modification Dates: Ground floor awning which wrapped the corner removed.

1981 Glazed conservatory type structure erected in front of the building and interal alterations

Face brickwork painted and roof of the towers removed.

Internally the building has been substantially altered. . Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original

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Location: 248 William Street, Potts Point [Sydney City]

features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The demoltion of the previous hotel and replacement with the exisitng building demonstrates the widening of William St and the intervention of the City Council in seeking to improve the city. Criteria b) Associated with Tooheys Brewery Ltd and prominent architect E. Lindsay Thompson

Criteria c) The Kings Cross Hotel is a landmark building on a key corner on William Street that marks the gateway to Kings Cross and is a good example of a Federation Free Classical Style hotel Criteria d)

Criteria e)

Criteria f)

Criteria g) A good representative example of a Federation Free Classical Style hotel

Integrity / Intactness: Moderate

References: Author Title Year Peter Robinson Associates 248 William Street Kings Cross, Heritage Impact 2003 Statement Supplementary Reprot - Interioer Assessment Peter Robinson Associates 248 William Street Kings Corss Heritage Impact Statement 2003

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Item Name: Kings Cross Hotel

Location: 248 William Street, Potts Point [Sydney City]

Address: 248 William Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Potts Point 2011 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Address: 248 William Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Kings Cross 2011 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Hotel Victoria

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Hotel Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Hotel Former Uses: Hotel

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance: Local

Statement of The Kings Cross Hotel is a good representative example of a Federation Free Classical Significance: Style hotel building displaying many of the key elements of the style, and is a landmark building on a key corner on William Street that marks the gateway to Kings Cross. It is associated with Tooheys Brewery Ltd and prominent architect E. Lindsay Thompson who designed a number of hotels and additions to hotels in the Federation and inter-war periods. The demoliton of the previous hotel on the site and the erection of the current buidling demonstrates the widening of William St and the intervention of the City Council in seeking to improve the city. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but

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there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The first land grant in the area, of 30 acres covering today's Potts Point, was made to Patrick Walsh, an Irish ex-convict, in 1809. Governor Macquarie revoked that land grant in 1822, granted the land to Mr. Drennan, however later brought the land back under Crown control for establishment of huts for local aboriginal people. Macquarie gave the name Elizabeth Town (after his wife) to the area. After Macquarie's departure, Elizabeth Town was divided into land grants for important public servants who were encouraged to build grand villas. These included Sir John Wylde Judge Advocate, 1822 and Alexander Macleay, Colonial Secretary. The final name of the area Potts Point came from association with Joseph Hyde Potts, Clerk of the Bank of NSW, who purchased six and a half acres in the area.

The line of Victoria Street is first shown on Edward Hallens Plan of 1842 " shewing the position of the new streets at Darlinghurst."

The Tivoli Estate of 1867, Challis Estate of 1889 and various smaller subdivisions along Victoria Street represent the earliest layer of intensive residential development in the area. Subdivision of the early mansion estates occurred in the early twentieth century. with Tusculum 1901, Campbell Lodge 1910, Grantham Estate, 1922 and Orwell House 1921. Many of the grand houses of the period remained until the 1930’s when many were replaced by flat buildings. A further group were demolished in the 1960’s , including Tarmons on the site of St Vincent's College, such that only four sites with grand villas remain today in Potts Point/Darlinghurst.

In the 1970s Potts Point became the focus of green bans over development plans for Victoria Street which were lodged in October 1971. Many residents on the city side of the street had already moved out, as the principal developer, Frank Theeman's Victoria Point Pty. Ltd. offered them favourable terms. The NSW Builders and Labourers Federation imposed green bans in sympathy with local resident activists, including Juanita Nielson who lived in Vcitoria Street, opposing the demolition of the area's historic terrace housing and there was a protracted battle with the developers until 1976, when a new plan called for the restoration of 22 of 32 houses with a 10 storey complex behind them and the green bans were lifted.

The Kings Cross Hotel was erected in 1918 to the design of E. Lindsay Thompson for Tooheys Brewery and a replaced a four storey brick hotel building with slate roof demolished as part of the widening of William Street. E. Lindsay Thompson was a

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prominent architect who designed a number of hotels and additions to hotels in the Federation and inter-war periods. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 8. Culture Leisure (none)

Designer: E. Lindsay Thompson Maker / Builder: Not ascertained

Year Started: Year Completed: 1918 Circa: No

Physical Description: Five storey Federation Free Style hotel building erected c. 1918, located on a prominent intersection of William St and Darlinghurst Rd . Has a landmark tower on the corner which is aprominent styllines feature and distinctive Juliet balconies. Façade above gorund floor level features timber double hung windows and painted brickwork with rendered detailing including balconies and conrcies. The name of the hotel is inscribed in a rendered panel on the splay corner.

Externally the building is relatively intact although the roof of the tower has been removed, external brickwork has been painted and a detracting addition erected in front of the building on William St elevation in 1981.

Internally the building has been substantially altered. Key remnant elements include the lift car, structure of the lift well and enclosing stairs, pressed metal ceilings, metal lathe and render walls on the second level , remnant fireplaces and joinery. Level 2 is the most intact level.

Physical Condition: Fair

Modification Dates: Ground floor awning which wrapped the corner removed.

1981 Glazed conservatory type structure erected in front of the building and interal alterations

Face brickwork painted and roof of the towers removed.

Internally the building has been substantially altered. . Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original

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features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The demoltion of the previous hotel and replacement with the exisitng building demonstrates the widening of William St and the intervention of the City Council in seeking to improve the city. Criteria b) Associated with Tooheys Brewery Ltd and prominent architect E. Lindsay Thompson

Criteria c) The Kings Cross Hotel is a landmark building on a key corner on William Street that marks the gateway to Kings Cross and is a good example of a Federation Free Classical Style hotel Criteria d)

Criteria e)

Criteria f)

Criteria g) A good representative example of a Federation Free Classical Style hotel

Integrity / Intactness: Moderate

References: Author Title Year Peter Robinson Associates 248 William Street Kings Cross, Heritage Impact 2003 Statement Supplementary Reprot - Interioer Assessment Peter Robinson Associates 248 William Street Kings Corss Heritage Impact Statement 2003

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Item Name: Kings Cross Hotel

Location: 248 William Street, Potts Point [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Kings Cross Hotel

Location: 248 William Street, Potts Point [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Redfern Hotel

Location: 88 George Street, Redfern [Sydney City]

Address: 88 George Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Redfern 2016 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Imperial Hotel/ Odd Fellows Arms Hotel/ Odd Fellows Hall Hotel

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Inn/Tavern Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The Refern Hotel has strong local cultural heritage significance as a continuous corner hotel Significance: site dating from pre 1858. The building is significant for its major alterations in 1935 associated with the widespread refurbishment of pubs in the Inter-war period by Tooth and Co. Pty Ltd. The 1935 works are also associated with Reginald Joy and E. Lindsay Thompson who were both prominent architects in the hotel industry in the Inter-war period. The building remains essentially unaltered since this important phase and is maintained to a high integrity, which makes it rare in comparison to other representative hotels which have generally undergone numerous phases of alteration. The intact feature tiling and feature finishes throughout have some aesthetic significance but especially with in the main ground floor corner bar area.

The building is a good modest representative example of a community pub within an identifiable industrial suburban context and continues to have social significance for its sense of place within the local community. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but

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Location: 88 George Street, Redfern [Sydney City]

there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

A hotel building has existed on the subject corner of George and Wells Streets since circa 1858 when it was listed as the Odd Fellows Arms Hotel, George Street Redfern. The licensee at that time was noted as John Dishington.

George Street developed with much industry including John Heine & Son on the oppsite corner of George And Wells Street. This company manufactured all sorts of machinery and was noted as the largest engineering works in Redfern, and the best equipped in the State, around the turn of the twentieth century.

In 1861 there was no listing of the hotel, possibly indicating the construction of a new building.

In 1863 -1867 the licensee was noted as Elizabeth Dickens, and in circa 1867 the establishment was called Odd Fellows Inn.

In 1868 the hotel was listed with an address in Wells Street. From 1868 till 1885 the licensee was Joseph Hunter Friend. The street numbering in 1882-1888 noted the hotel as 100 George Street.

In 1888, the building changed name to the Oddfellow's Hall Hotel, under licensee, Roderick McDonnell.

In 1892, the building was not listed under any of the other known names and may have been called the Model Hotel.

The building was known as Friend's Hotel in 1896, with Richard Friend noted as the licensee in both 1896 and 1900.

From 1900 the building was known as the Imperial Hotel. The licensee between 1910-1920 was Albert E Armstrong. The municipal ratebooks for the site between 1918 and 1932 (other records not available) show the owner of the site as Richard Friend and the tenant as A. E. Armstrong.

The site was transferred to Tooth and Co. Pty Ltd in 1935. The building underwent major alterations and additions to the plans prepared by Reginald Joy, Architect and Late E. Lindsay Thompson, for Tooth and Co. Ltd. The additions included new toilet, laundry, and garage. The alterations included the dining room/kitchen and a larger bar area.

The plans indicate that the building prior to the 1935 refurbishment was known as the

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Item Name: Redfern Hotel

Location: 88 George Street, Redfern [Sydney City]

Imperial Hotel and consisted of a two-storey plus basement, L-shaped building, built to the street corner with a long elevation along Wells Street. The footpath along Wells Street was one-third the width of the footpath to George Street. The basement consisted of two rooms located to the street corner. The ground floor level consisted of a small bar to the street corner, a central stair hall, two separate anterooms to the south along George Street, Kitchen and service areas to the rear along Wells Street including toilets with direct access from the street elevation. The first floor level consisted of a series of rooms located around the central stair hall. A narrow cantilevered verandah wrapped around the corner of the building with French doors opening directly onto it. A large yard area was located to the south with access along George Street. The plans indicate the likelihood that the building had been substantially enlarged as a double lot from an earlier building that would have been part of a single lot on the corner with a traditional tunnel back form.

A cool room was added to the cellar in 1954. At which time the name of the building was noted as Redfern Hotel.

A carport was erected in 1964.

In 2006 the building and license were sold. The building was stripped of its license and plans were submitted to Council for alterations and additions for use as a commercial gallery. Themes: Designer: Reginald Joy - major alterations to existing building, 1935 Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: Circa: No

Physical Description: The building is a two-storey rendered brick corner hotel building, with a tall hipped concrete tiled roof and suspended steel awning. It is located on the corner of George and Wells Street. Below the awning the walls have 1930s ceramic tiles with large timber panelled and glazed entries. The upper level has single and double sets of timber framed double hung sash windows with recessed angled sills. An enclosed driveway and carport along the southern boundary from George Street forms and internal courtyard.

The interior consists of a main bar area to the street including original bar, island, wall and floor tiles, joinery. A false suspended grid ceiling has been added to the main bar area. Decorative glass panels remain in the main entry doors including highlights. The dining room fireplace is render and plaster. A timber stair gives access to the first floor accomodation level. The accomodation level is a series of rooms off a corridor with also two bathrooms and toilets areas.

The building remains very intact, internally and externally.

Physical Condition: The building remains remarkably intact externally and internally, and very well maintained. The good condition and integrity of the building makes a strong contribution to its comparative significance. It is relatively unusual that a building of this type has not undergone successive alterations of greater intervention other than those listed below.

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There is some evidence of termite damage in the rear ground floor area of the building.

Modification Dates: 1954. Application for additional cool room in cellar. Architect R. M. Joy & Pollitt. 1960. Alterations (unknown). 1964. Carport addition. 2006. License sold. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building and site has historic significance for a long standing continuity of use as a hotel since pre 1858 and relates to the surrounding industrial and suburban cultural/urban development of the area. It's street corner location and presence relates to the original subdivision pattern and further emphasizes the pattern of commercial support services within that cultural/urban development.

The building clearly demonstrates through the 1930s finishes and appearance, a key historical phase in the upgrading of the hotel that relates to the historical phase of widespread extensive refurbishment of metropolitan hotels by the major brewery owners in the Inter-war period following the previous historic changes to the liquor licencing laws . Criteria b) The Redfern Hotel has significance for its historic association with Tooths and Co. Pty Ltd. The 1935 refurbishment of the building that is clearly demonstrated throughout the building is directly attributable to Tooths as a client of the of the architect and applicant of the works.

Tooths and Co. was founded in 1835 and became one of Sydney's largest breweries. The Company remained a separate entity (with the addition of Resches in 1929) until acquired by Carlton United Breweries in 1983. Between 1898 and 1940, Tooths and Co. (and their rival, Tooheys) acquired the freeholds of hundreds of pubs, largely taking control of the

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Location: 88 George Street, Redfern [Sydney City]

liquor trade in metroploitan Sydney. Tooths are reknowned for their extensive rebuilding or refurbishment of prominent corner pubs in the Inter-war period.

The Redfern Hotel also has significance under this crierion for its association with the architect Reginald M. Joy and the office of the architect Late E. Lindsay Thompson. Both Joy and Lindsay are attributable to many prominent early twentieth century hotel buildings throughout Sydney.

Criteria c) Externally, the building has some aesthetic significance for its intact ground floor detailing below the awning including wall tiles, windows and entrances.

Internally, the building has some aesthetic significance for its very intact detailing and finishes throughout including main bar and bar area, render and plaster dining room fire place surround, timber stair, joinery, tiling and leadlight glass panels.

Much of this detailing, finishes and features exemplifies the style of the working-class suburban Inter-war hotel. Criteria d) The Redfern Hotel has social significance as a local hotel of long standing for the local area and is asscoiated with the early industrial workforce and suburban residents. The retained contribution of the building to the area is important to the communities continued sense of place.

During the recent sale and de-licencing of the building (early 2006), there was much vocal interest from the local community wishing to protect the heritage values of the building. Criteria e) Ther buildings rare intact detailing, finishes and fitout especially to the main bar area including the early fridges provides opportunity for comparative analysis and understanding of the style, construction and technology of the time, especially for resoration works to other significant hotels form the period.

Through the limited research undertaken, other buildings are known to have have been located in the site. An adequate archaelogical assessment has not been undertaken. The archeological potential of the site is unclear.

Criteria f) The Redfern Hotel as a suburban Inter-war hotel building in the local area is not rare. However ,the high level of intactness displayed by the main features of the building is rare, as most other examples of these types of building have had numerous layers of later ateration and refurbishment over the decades. Criteria g) The Redfern Hotel is a fine representative example of a modest Inter-war suburban corner hotel building servicing the local community. It is outstanding because of it high level of integrity and outstanding condition. It has strong attributes typical of local suburban pub culture. Integrity / Intactness: The building has a very high degree of integrity and corresponds closely to the original drawings for alterations to the building in 1935. There have been some minor peicemeal alterations that have little impact on the buildings integrity.

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Location: 88 George Street, Redfern [Sydney City]

1932 Archnex Designs Statement of Heritage Impact: 88 George Street,, Redfern 2006 C Edney Where have all the drinking holes gone? A study of hotels 2006 in the Council area south of Cleveland Street Reginald Joy, Architect Alterations to the Imperial Hotel; cnr George and Wells St, 1935 Redfern; for Messers Tooth & Company Limited, Sydney

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 03/08/2006 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Redfern Hotel

Location: 88 George Street, Redfern [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Building (former)

Location: 20-28 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills [Sydney City]

Address: 20-28 Chalmers Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Surry Hills 2011 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Group: Category: Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Commercial Former Uses: Film Exchange, dental school

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of 20-28 Chalmers Street provides evidence of the consolidation and dominance of American Significance: film interests in Australia during the 1930 and is one of three purpose designed head office and film exchange buildings constructed by major American film studios between 1933 and 1941 in the Surry Hills area. However, this level of significance has been diminished by modifications that have been undertaken to its interiors. Nevertheless the original sections of the building façade demonstrate a relatively high standard of architectural quality and resolution, and make a positive contribution to the streetscape.

The building has associations with the prominent and influential architectural firm of Robertson & Marks. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to

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Location: 20-28 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills [Sydney City]

choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The site of 20-28 Chalmers Street is a part of a grant of land made to Daniel Cooper that was formalised on 15 May 1830. It did not exist in its present form until the first decade of the twentieth century. Nor indeed did Chalmers Street. Prior to the construction of Central Railway Station the locality was dominated by the venerable Devonshire Street Cemetery. A street called Garden Road, which was incorporated into the station complex and situated just to the south of present day Eddy Avenue, formed the northern boundary of the Cemetery. The progress of Castlereagh Street southwards was interrupted by the Cemetery, but then resumed at Devonshire Street. The eastern boundary of the Cemetery was formed by dense residential development lining a street called Railway Place, part of a triangle of streets and lanes to the west of Randle Street. This triangle disappeared along with the Cemetery once the works associated with Central Station commenced. The land was resumed under the provisions of the Public Works Act of 1900 and the City Railway Extension (Devonshire Street) Act of 1900.

The section of Chalmers Street on which No. 20-28 is located formed an extension to Castlereagh Street, which was given its present name in 1905. At the end of the first decade of the twentieth century there seems to have been very little development on the block between Elizabeth and Devonshire Streets, although the United Dental Hospital was built around 1910 at 14 Chalmers Street and by 1915 there were a number of buildings situated within the block.

20-28 Chalmers Street is located on Lots 7 to 11 of Section 1 of the Central Railway Station subdivision. After resumption the title to the site was vested in the Minister for Public Works, but it was subsequently conveyed to a succession of private individuals before being acquired by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Ltd at the beginning of 1932. A building application for new premises was lodged on behalf of the company with Council on 13 June 1933. The building was designed by the prominent and influential architectural firm of Robertson & Marks, which was founded in 1892 and soon rose to prominence, no doubt helped by the social connections available to Theodore Marks, the son of a wealthy politician. A large number of major buildings designed by the firm still stand in the City of Sydney, including International House at 14-16 York Street (1913), the Trust Building at the intersection of King and Castlereagh Streets (1916) and the former Bank of NSW building at 341 George Street (1932). During the 1930s the firm was responsible for the design of the former Asbestos House at the intersection of York and Barrack Streets (1936, first stage in association with John Reid & Son) and the AWA Building in York Street (1939, in association with DT Morrow & Gordon).

The Metro Goldwyn Mayer Building was constructed by Stuart Bros. Work progressed rapidly once commenced, possibly as a result of the conditions in the building industry arising from the Depression then gripping the country. Construction had reached its “final stages” at the beginning of October 1933, when it was anticipated that the building would:” rank as the finest and most up-to-date motion picture exchange in the Southern Hemisphere” . No less a personage than Arthur Loew, son of one of the founders of Metro Goldwyn

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Mayer, officially opened the building on 19 December 1933 during a visit to Sydney. The building was described in the trade journal Everyone’s in the following terms “… the structure’ s design cleverly combines the spirit of art with business. The style follows the Renaissance based on Italian example”. It originally contained a ground floor vestibule off which opened an accessories department and film despatch department with five fireproof film storage vaults, a film exchange including general office space plus a theatrette seating 60 persons on the first floor, and executive offices on the second floor. The roof level was devoted to staff dining and recreation areas with an open court for hand ball games and other pastimes.

20-28 Chalmers Street was only one of several Sydney buildings specifically designed for American film studios during the inter war period. A film exchange was constructed for Fox Film Corporation in Goulburn Street during the latter part of the 1920sbut has since been demolished. Universal Pictures erected a small building at 499-501 Kent Street, which was completed in the first half of 1937. New premises for Fox Film were completed in 1940 in Brisbane Street, Surry Hills, while Paramount Film Services constructed its head office and film exchange nearby during 1941. All of these buildings still stand.

The future of 20-28 Chalmers Street was, however, to become inextricably linked with the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Sydney.

The University inaugurated its dental curriculum during 1901, and the University Dental Hospital officially opened in January 1902 in two rooms of a building situated at the corner of George and Bridge Streets where students could undertake clinical work. A large number of people passed through the Hospital, which aimed to assist the deserving poor as well as train competent and well qualified dentists. A group of prominent dentists decided to establish a second hospital to attend to the needs of the poor in 1902 but financial problems led to the amalgamation of this facility with the University Dental Hospital and resulted in the institution known as the United Dental Hospital, which was formalised by an Act of Parliament. By 1911 it had moved to a large new building at 14 Chalmers Street. The University acquired the land to the north of the existing hospital in 1937, and by 1939 a six storey building had been completed. It was enlarged substantially in the post World War II period.

Because of increases in undergraduate students in the 1970s the University acquired 20-28 Chalmers Street as a “short term and partial alleviation” of the situation. In December 1972 the title to the property was transferred to the Minister for Public Works. In 1973 alterations to the building were documented in the architectural office of Peter Priestley & Associates. Modifications were made to accommodate staff and service facilities and included a library, laboratory and audiovisual services.

By 1980 the building was under the jurisdiction of the Health Commission of New South Wales and was incorporated into one large title that included it and the United Dental Hospital. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Health (none) 3. Economy Health (none)

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Location: 20-28 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills [Sydney City]

8. Culture Creative endeavour (Cultur (none)

Designer: Robertson & Marks Maker / Builder: Stuart Bros

Year Started: 1933 Year Completed: 1933 Circa: No

Physical Description: 20-28 Chalmers Street is a four storey building with a symmetrical cement rendered façade that has a mildly Spanish Mission character, perhaps appropriate given the associations that the building enjoys with Hollywood. The building has a central main entrance marked by three arched openings and emphasised by decorative elements such as quoins and voussoirs framing the arched openings, decorative architraves and scrollwork around the first floor window above the central arched opening and a wrought steel “balcony” below the sills of the three windows directly above the entrance. The façade is modulated by the disposition of windows, in which a group of three closely spaced window openings flank each side of the entry “zone”, wherein the three bays of windows are spaced further apart. Each window opening is embellished with a decorative architrave; the detailing at the third floor level is simple in comparison to other parts, indicating its relative age. Similarly, the lack of detail and the quarry tiled sills of the ground floor openings show that they are a later modification. The recessed panels above these windows are, however, original.

A remnant of the original tiled roofing, projecting above a heavily bracketed eave, separates the second and third floor levels of the façade. Some original timber framed multi-paned double hung window sashes still remain in place.

Some original fabric exists within the building, including decorative terrazzo floor finishes in the ground floor vestibule, hardware on the main entry doors and the stair that is accessed from the vestibule, which includes terrazzo risers and treads and a wrought metal balustrade.

Physical Condition: The building is in good condition.

Modification Dates: Comparison of the existing building with photographic and other documentary evidence that dates to the time that it was completed shows the following:

•An additional floor has been constructed, resulting in the destruction of the tiled roof that once covered at least part of the building; •Display windows in the ground floor section of the façade have been removed and a series of individual windows installed in their place; •Flagpoles have been removed from the spandrels between the arched openings forming the Chalmers Street entry.

Applications for modifications to the building that have been made to Council include:

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1939: Building application – alterations and additions. 1946: Building application – alterations and additions 3rd floor. 1949: Building application - new goods entrance at rear of building. 1950: Building application – installation of an air conditioning system. 1961: Development application – use of premises for storage and sale of meat. 1972: Development applications – conversion of premises to commercial offices, broadcasting, recording studios and training (Amalgamated Wireless (Aust) Ltd); extension of dental hospital. 1973: Development application – alterations to the building for use by the Sydney University Dental Faculty; Building application – alterations and additions 1981: Building application – replacement of roof over lift motor room. Recommended •It is recommended that the façade is included as a building element in Schedule 8 Part 2 of Management: Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2005. •All conservation, adaptive reuse and future development should be undertaken in accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter). •A Conservation Management Strategy should be prepared for the facade to ensure that future change is managed in a coordinated fashion. •Retain and conserve all intact original external and internal building fabric and the external appearance of the building.

Management: Statutory Instrument List on a Local Environmental Plan (LEP)

Further Comments:

Criteria a) The building provides evidence of the consolidation and dominance of American film interests in Australia during the 1930s. It is one of three purpose designed head office and film exchange buildings constructed by major American film studios between 1933 and 1941 in the Surry Hills area. However, this level of significance has been reduced by modifications that have been undertaken to interiors.

The building has some associations with the teaching of dentistry in New South Wales. However, this use compromised evidence of original use. Criteria b) 20-28 Chalmers Street has associations with the prominent and influential firm of Robertson & Marks.

Criteria c) The original sections of the building façade demonstrate a relatively high standard of architectural quality and resolution, and make a positive contribution to the streetscape. Criteria d) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria e) This criterion is not applicable.

Criteria f) The building is one of four purpose designed film exchanges in the City of Sydney.

Criteria g) The original sections of the building façade are representative of commercial architecture from the first half of the 1930s.

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Item Name: Bligh House

Location: 4-6 Bligh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 4-6 Bligh Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance: Local

Statement of The building is a good and highly intact example of a post war international style building of Significance: high quality design and materials by prominent architects Peddle Thorp & Walker. It dates form the key period of redevelopment for the northern end of the city when major rebuilding was being underatken by insurance companies in the area. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani

The building was designed by Peddle Thorpe & Walker in 1964, and constructed for

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Item Name: Bligh House

Location: 4-6 Bligh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co. Ltd. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1964 Circa: No

Physical Description: The building is 15 storeys in height and constructed of reinforced concrete with pre-cast concrete cladding. The base or poduim level is 3 storeys in height with the upper floor tower set back. There is a colonnade and arcade at ground floor level clad in black granite. The ground floor and lobby areas are highly intact.

Physical Condition: In good condition with a high degree of original fabric intact and high potential for restoration.

Modification Dates: The upper level floors have been altered internally. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Conservation Management Plan should Management: be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, joinery, flooring and lighting should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, shall not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the Sydney City Council Development Control Plan. The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 2

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Item Name: Bligh House

Location: 4-6 Bligh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building dates from a key period of major rebuilding in Sydney at the northern end of the city an area dominated by insurance companies. Criteria b) The building is associated with prominent architects Peddle Thorpe & Walker.

Criteria c) The building is a good example of Post-War International style and demonstrates many of thekey elemens of that style including the ground floor podium and set back tower behind. Criteria d)

Criteria e) The site is not identified in an archaeological zoning plan and the area has been well researched and it is unlikely that the site would reveal further information that would contribute to the significance of the area.

Criteria f) The building is not rare but its integrity is rare within the City of Sydney.

Criteria g) The building is a representative example of a highly intact post war international style building within the City of Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 23/11/2005 Date Updated: 01/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Bligh House

Location: 4-6 Bligh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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SHI Number City of Sydney Heritage Database 2423923 Heritage Inventory Report

Item Name: Dalgety House (former)

Location: 38-42 Bridge Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 38-42 Bridge Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: 2227 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Vacant Former Uses: Commercial Offices

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance: Local

Statement of Dalgety House, a 14 storey tower of post war International Style, is located on a prominent Significance: site opposite Macquarie Place. The building has historic significance for its association with the Dalgety Company, built just at the moment when the company had become the largest pastoral finance company operating in Australia and New Zealand. It is important for its association with Dalgety, one of the most important pastoral finance companies with a history in Australia extending over 100 years. It is important for its contribution to the scale and finishes typical of the Bridge Street precinct. It is important as a quality post war example with a highly intact exterior. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the European invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

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Item Name: Dalgety House (former)

Location: 38-42 Bridge Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

Dalgety House was built in 1963 and occupied from 1964 to 1966 as the Australian Head Office and Sydney Branch office of Dalgety & Co. It was designed by the company's newly appointed architect Roy E Brink. In 1962 Dalgety & Co had merged with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd. With assets of 44 million pounds in 1963, it was the largest pastoral combine operating in the antipodes. The historian of Dalgety has written that as the sixties began, the Company stood poised on the brink of an "astonishing expansion which, in ten short years, would carry the name of Dalgety around the globe." The Bridge Street building was sold during the course of its erection to the AMP Society, with the Dalgety company retaining a long lease agreement. The building has since been converted to serviced apartments. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: Roy Brink, Terry W. Petersen Maker / Builder: F.T. Eastment

Year Started: 1963 Year Completed: 1963 Circa: No

Physical Description: Dalgety House, a 14 storey tower of Post-War International style, is located on a prominent site opposite Macquarie Place. The two storey podium consists of granite clad columns and full height glazing below the twelve floor tower. The west elevation (Loftus Street) has four bays of bronze glazing divided by concrete clad vertical mullions asymmetrically positioned against a solid panel incorporating rectangular windows. The south elevation (Bridge St) has seven glazed bays and one solid bay, again incorporating rectangular windows. At the fourteenth floor the building steps back for the plantroom. The elevations to the laneways are predominantly solid. The plan is irregular with the lift and stair service area to the east and a second stair on the north elevation. The ground and lower ground foyers are intact and feature marble clad walls lined foyers and granite tarten flooring. The stair retains its original timber, stainless steel and wired glass details. The interior underwent a series of alterations in the 1970s and 1980s and the building has since had 2 additional floors added (set back) and been converted to serviced apartments.

Physical Condition: In good condition externally but altered and refurbished internally.

Modification Dates: 2 additional floors added when converted to apartments. Recommended General: The overall form of Dalgety House should be retained and conserved. A Management: conservation plan should be prepared to guide the future use and maintenance of the place. Finishes never intended for painting, such as precast stone panels and bronze spandrels should remain unpainted and should continue to be appropriately maintained. Surfaces State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 2

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Item Name: Dalgety House (former)

Location: 38-42 Bridge Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

intended for painting should continue to be painted in appropriate colours. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken.

Exterior: All remaining intact fabric on the external facades should be retained and conserved. Any future development should preserve the existing form, external surfaces and materials of the facade. Door and window openings should not be enlarged or closed in. Equally alterations to the recessed podium should not be considered.

Interior: As the building retains the ground and lower ground foyers relatively intact these areas should be retained. As there is no significance remaining in the general office accommodation further alterations would be acceptable provided the facades of the building are not compromised.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) This building has historic significance for its association with the Dalgety Company, built just at the moment that the company had become the largest pastoral finance company operating in Australia and New Zealand. It is important for its association with Dalgety, one of the most important pastoral finance companies in Australia with a history in extending over 100 years. Criteria b)

Criteria c) The building is an oustanding example of a post war International style building which is highly intact externally and demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style. It is important for its contribution to the scale and finishes typical of the Bridge Street precinct. Criteria d)

Criteria e) The area is not identified in an archaeological zoning plan and the area has been well researched and it is unlikely that the site would reveal further information that would contribute to the significance of the area. Criteria f) The building is rare within the City of Sydney.

Criteria g) Dalgety House is rare example of a post war international building which important for its contribution to the scale and finishes typical of the Bridge Street precinct. It is important as a quality post war example with an intact exterior.

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Item Name: Dalgety House (former)

Location: 38-42 Bridge Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Integrity / Intactness: High externally

References: Author Title Year Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 1 10 96 p30 Dolan News 1966 - 1966 W Vaughan Thompson Henry Melland Dalgety: The romance of a Business

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 27/09/1996 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Completed

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Item Name: Dalgety House (former)

Location: 38-42 Bridge Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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SHI Number City of Sydney Heritage Database 2424093 Heritage Inventory Report

Item Name: The Workers Building (Australian Workers' Union

Location: 238-240 Castlereagh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 238-240 Castlereagh Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Protestant Hall; Empire House

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Community Facilities Category: Hall Trades Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: 4121 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Vacant Former Uses: Offices; Hall

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The Workers Building has historic significance as a former Protestant Hall associated with Significance: the Irish Protestant movement in Australia, and as the temporary home of the Australian Workers' Union, one of the first unions in Australia. It has some aesthetic significance as a good example of a Victorian Free Classical stucco façade, which despite its highly alien context on the east side of Castlereagh Street does relate to the Victorian fire station building on the opposite side of the road. There are several buildings in the City of similar style and in better condition, such as Pinnacle House and the warehouses at 22-26 York Street. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

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Item Name: The Workers Building (Australian Workers' Union

Location: 238-240 Castlereagh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The Worker Building was constructed as a Protestant Hall around 1878. It replaced a number of smaller buildings used as small retail shops. It was originally constructed as a 3 storey building and for the first years of its existence is listed in Sands' Directory only as 'Protestant Hall'. Rates assessment shows the owners as Protestant Hall Co. and the person rated as S. E. Lees. In 1909 the Sands' Directory gives a more detailed listing of the occupants of the building. These included a predominance of politically aligned Protestant societies including Loyal Orange Institution, Royal Black Association of Ireland, Loyal Protestant Benefit Society of Australasia and a number of Lodges. There was also a church, Whitfield Congregational Church, a number of choirs and two newspapers - Australian Sentinel and The Murray Independent. The strong association to the Irish Protestants and other connected societies continued until 1924 when the building was renovated by Burcham Clamp Architects and an additional storey added. It was at this time that the name of the building was changed from Protestant Hall to Empire House. After the renovations the building continued to be occupied by the Loyal Orange Institution but was also occupied by less politically aligned tenants such as a musician, tailor, and beauty salon. In 1937 the building was transferred to the Australian Workers Union who occupied the building for a number of years. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 5. Working Labour (none) 8. Culture Social institutions (none)

Designer: Burcham Clamp (additions only) Maker / Builder:

Year Started: 1878 Year Completed: 1878 Circa: No

Physical Description: The Worker Building is a four storey building with a Victorian Free Classical facade. Externally, It has a characteristic rendered masonry facade symmetrical about a small central bay with stucco detailing and steel awning at street level. The ground floor level has steel encased concrete beams supporting a timber floor structure, and is still used as a parking area. The upper levels have steel columns and masonry walls supporting a timber floor structure. Internally the joinery and plaster detailing is typical of the 1920s, when the building was extensively renovated. The main timber stair in the building wraps around a birdcage lift which is currently disused. As the building as been vacant for a number of years much of the internal fabric is in a dilapidated state and unsound in some places.

Physical Condition: The building is currently in a deteriorated condition and has been vacant for the past few years.

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Item Name: The Workers Building (Australian Workers' Union

Location: 238-240 Castlereagh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Modification Dates: The building has an additional floor added which was designed as a seamless addition when it was extensively renovated in the 1920's. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features.

Exterior: the masonry facades and awning should be conserved. As good evidence exists for the original appearance of the ground floor facade, this should preferably be reconstructed at some stage in the future; alternatively a new ground floor facade more in keeping with the original building above could be constructed.

Interior: the internal joinery and plasterwork should generally be preserved and the interiors adapted if required to suit new functions.

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Further Comments: Comments: Was a heritage item in 1989, listing evoked under LEP 1992-conservation of heritage items.

High Significance:Masonry and stucco façade and timber windows, and steel awning. Medium Significance:Intact 1920s joinery including panelled partitions, doors, stairs and lift surround and car.

Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building dates from the key period of development of Casltereagh St and is one of the earliest surviving buildings within the block between Bathurst and Liverpool Sts. Criteria b) The building is associated with the Irish Protestant movement in Australia, the Australian Workers' Union and Burcham Clamp architect.

Criteria c) The building is a prominent element in the streetscape and good example of a late Victorian building with elaborate parapet detailing with classic motifs and other typical key elements of the style. Criteria d) The building is associated with the Irish Protestant movement in Australia.

Criteria e) The building has been identified in an archaeological zoning plan and further research and State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 3

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Item Name: The Workers Building (Australian Workers' Union

Location: 238-240 Castlereagh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

investigation is necessary which may reveal further information that would contribute to the significance of the site.

Criteria f) The building is not rare. Criteria g) The building is a representative example of a Victorian Commercial building found in the inner suburbs of Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High Externally , Medium internally

References: Author Title Year Sands Directory, Land Titles Searches, 'One Big Union' Mark Hearn & Harry Knowles. Anita Heiss Aboriginal People and Place, Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City Burcham Clamp Architect Alterations to the Protestant Hall 1924

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 22/05/2003 Date Updated: 01/08/2006 Status: Completed

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Item Name: The Workers Building (Australian Workers' Union

Location: 238-240 Castlereagh Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Arnobaldi Building

Location: 263-273 Clarence Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 263-273 Clarence Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner: Private - Individual

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The building is an outstanding example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style Significance: commercial building with an unprecedented distinctive geometric curtain wall façade designed by prominent italian architect Mario Arnobaldi. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The site originally had a 2 storey terrace style shop and residence building known as Frank Grinley Wholesalers. The current building was designed and constructed in 1976, by Mario

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Item Name: Arnobaldi Building

Location: 263-273 Clarence Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Arnoboldi (in consultation with David M Ashton). Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: Mario Arnoboldi (in consultation with David M Ashton) Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1976 Circa: No

Physical Description: The building is 13 storeys in height with 2 level basement. It is constructed of reinforced concerete with a distinctive façade of stainless steel curtain wall frames with dark glass curtain wall panels designed in a geometric pattern.

Physical Condition: In good condition with a high degree of original fabric intact externally.

Modification Dates: Minor modifications to the interiors as a result of commercial fitouts. The ground floor entry foyer was refurbished in 2003. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the facade of the building other than to reinstate original features. Significant internal original features should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, shall not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the Development Control Plan.

Management: Recommended Management Produce a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building has historic significance as it dates from the key period of development of the Late Twentieth-Century International style in Sydney and the redevelopment of key inner city sites. Criteria b) The building is associated with the internationally recognised Italian architect Mario State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 2

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Item Name: Arnobaldi Building

Location: 263-273 Clarence Street, Sydney [Sydney City] ) Arnaboldi.

Criteria c) The building is an outstanding example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style office building designed by a prominent Italian archictect and constructed of Italian materials. Criteria d)

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Criteria f) The building is rare within the City of Sydney. Criteria g) The building is a representative example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style office building designed by an internationally recognised architect in Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High

References: Author Title Year Graham Jahn Sydney Architecture 1997 Paul McGillick Sydney Architecture 2005

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 21/07/2006 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Arnobaldi Building

Location: 263-273 Clarence Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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SHI Number City of Sydney Heritage Database 2424096 Heritage Inventory Report

Item Name: Museum Railway Station

Location: 3 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 3 Elizabeth Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Item Type: Built Group: Transport - Rail Category: Railway Platform/ Stati Owner: State Rail Authority

Admin Codes: 4124 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Railway Station Former Uses: Railway Station

Assessed Significance: State Endorsed Significance:

Statement of Museum Station has historic significance as one the first two underground railway stations to Significance: operate in Australia; the other was St James. It has continued in operation since opening and retains much of the original fabric. The building is historically and socially significant for the important part it played in the development of transport services in the early twentieth century and is evidence of the expansion and upgrading of public utilities in the inner city during this period. It has social significance for its association with the commercial and public development of the area. The building is an important part of the larger transport scheme, particularly the development of the inner city transport system, and has association with prominent persons such as JJC Bradfield and organisations such as the Department of Railways. The Museum Station building is a fine and largely intact example of a small scale inter-war Stripped Classical style building which adds to the general character of the immediate area. It has significance as one of two buildings of its type and style remaining in the city (the other being St James), and is the only face brick and sandstone building of its type and style remaining in the city. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but

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Item Name: Museum Railway Station

Location: 3 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

From as early as 1857 plans were prepared for the extension of the railway line into the City from the terminus in Devonshire Street. Various routes were proposed over the successive years but agreement on a City railway service could not be achieved despite two Royal Commissions investigating the options. In 1908 a third Royal Commission was appointed and recommended a plan for a loop railway which included six underground stations located generally in the positions of the current stations. In 1915 the Chief Engineer of Metropolitan Railway Construction, JJC Bradfield submitted a plan for an electric underground City railway loop, a Harbour Bridge crossing and connection from the City network to two lines to head north and various branch lines heading east and west. St James was proposed to form a vital link in the network by being built on two levels. Work on the railway commenced in 1916 for the link between Central Station to Macquarie Street. Funding problems forced construction to cease in 1918. From 1917 to 1922 Bradfield maintained a publicity campaign to rally support for his scheme. Excavation work for Museum and St James Stations began in 1922. Costing 2,007,943 pounds Museum Station was built as a single main tunnel arch in concrete spanning both east and west platforms and two centre tracks. The station is free of columns and other structures in the European "tube" style tradition. Concourse areas were formed above the platforms of the stations, acting as focal points for pedestrian ways from the street entrances. After several years of construction the first underground electric railway was opened on 20 December 1926 when the new line section of Central Station, Museum and St James Stations were connected by trains. After 1956, the opening of Circular Quay Railway Station resulted in reduced passenger usage. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Transport (none)

Designer: JJC Bradfield Maker / Builder: Department of Railways

Year Started: 1922 Year Completed: 1926 Circa: No

Physical Description: The Museum Station complex consists of the entrance building, two concourse areas, platforms and pedestrian tunnel/subway areas. The entry building located diagonally across the corner of Liverpool and Elizabeth Streets is a "L" shaped brick building in the Inter-War

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Location: 3 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Stripped Classical style and features rectangular timber panelled windows and sandstone detailing. Sandstone columns feature in the entrance which is covered by a bracketed awning clad in pressed metal sheeting. Roman numerals denoting 1926 are carved in the sandstone frieze and a modern brick and glass restaurant has been added to the north facade. Concrete stairs lead down to the concourse area which contains many original features. Narrow, barrel vaulted tunnels and stairs with tiled walls connect to the platforms which are located within a single reinforced concrete barrel vault. The walls are clad in the same distinctive ceramic tiles and the platforms have new cement finish.

Physical Condition: Generally the entry building is in good condition, problems are basically associated with lack of maintenance, several windows are broken and external surfaces appear dirty. The external awning is in good condition. Internally the entry building is generally rundown, surfaces appear soiled and there is some evidence of water penetration. The tunnels and concourse areas have been refurbished. Many intact original features such as ticket office and WC areas, wall tiling, signage, balustrades and railings have been retained and repaired where necessary.

Intrusive Elements:Restaurant addition to the north.

Modification Dates: 1922-1926 Recommended General: The existing form and scale of the brick and sandstone entry building, tunnels, Management: concourse and platform areas should be preserved. Any new work and maintenance programmes should seek to preserve and enhance surviving significant original fabric. Surfaces never intended for painting, notably face brick, sandstone and tiling should remain unpainted, while surfaces such as timber and render which were originally painted should continue to be painted in appropriate colours. Future work should be in accordance with the existing Conservation Study and Policy Guidelines, updated as necessary prior to any development proposal, and should not adversely impact on the original fabric of the building.

Exterior: The original external fabric and detail of the entry building should be preserved. Significant features such as the Sandstone detailing, windows, parapets and awning over the entry should be preserved. Damaged sandstone and other significant material should be treated appropriately, restored and/or reconstructed. As the exterior of the buildings are intact there should be no work which enlarges or encloses window and door openings.

Interior: The internal form and scale of the tunnels, station spaces, concrete structure and stairs should be preserved. In particular, significant features such as the barrel vaulted platforms should be retained and left exposed. Wall tiling featuring the distinctive burgundy dado, skirting, trims, margins and capping together with cream body tiling should be retained and matching tiles applied to damaged areas or where tiles are missing. The existing timber doors, ticket booths, balustrading, railings and other fittings should be retained. The interior of the entry building should be cleaned and maintained. Lighting and broken windows should be repaired.

Management: Recommended Management Review a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a

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general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) Museum Station was one of the first underground railway stations to operate in Australia and has been in continuous operation since its opening, retaining most of the original fabric of the station intact. It was part of the development of transport services in the early twentieth century and provides evidence of the expansion and upgrading of public utilities in the inner city during this period. Criteria b) The station is associated with prominent persons such as JJC Bradfield and organisations such as the Department of Railways.

Criteria c) The station demonstrates a period of railway technology in NSW and Australia. The scale and methods of construction represent a major feat of engineering for its time. The brick and sandstone entry building is a fine and largely intact example of a small scale Inter-War Stripped Classical style building. The interior retains most of its original detailing and elements. Criteria d) It is associated with early plans for the development of a city rail network and demonstrates the adoption of the European style tube station. The underground location of the station is a result of citizens' concerns over losing parkland. By enabling ease of transport for workers into the city it has contributed to the expansion of Sydney's suburbia from the early to mid twentieth century. Criteria e)

Criteria f) It is significant as one of the first two underground railway stations to operate in Australia.

Criteria g) The station is representative of a low scale public building constructed in the inter-war stripped classical style. It is representative of a facility designed to cater for ongoing transport of Sydney's citizens. It is associated with early plans for the development of a city rail network and demonstrates the adoption of the European style tube station. Integrity / Intactness: High

References: Author Title Year Anita Heiss Aboriginal People and Place, Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City Cecil Weerakoon Museum Station heritage impact statement : 2001 refurbishment/upgrade of ladies' and gents' toilets by Weerakoon, Cecil., Rail Infrastructure Corporation. Rail Infrastructure Corporation, September 2001. Lester Firth Associates Pty Ltd Conservation Study and Policy Guidelines: Museum 1993 Station

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Location: 3 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Latitude: -33.8781689498817 Longitude: 151.208624658901 Location validity: Spatial Accuracy: Map Name: Map Scale: 6761 AMG Zone: Easting: Northing:

Listings: Name: Title: Number: Date: Heritage Act - State Heritage Register 01207 Heritage Act - Permanent Conservation Order - PCO_ICO_S130 former Heritage Act - s.170 NSW State agency heritage State Rail Authority S170 register Local Environmental PlanSydney LEP 2005 97 9/12/2005 National Trust of Australia register NT_Register Art Deco Society register

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 22/05/2003 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Completed

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Item Name: Sharpies Golf House Sign

Location: 216-220 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills [Sydney City]

Address: 216-220 Elizabeth Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Surry Hills 2010 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: The Golf House

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Recreation and Entert Category: Other - Recreation & Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Animated Neon Sign Advertising Former Uses: Animated Neon Sign Advertising

Assessed Significance: State Endorsed Significance: State

Statement of Sharpies Golf sign has high rarity values as a unique example of 20th century advertising. Significance: The sign is historically significant as the only original animated neon sign remaining insitu and is representatitve of the animated neon sign phase during the 1950’s. It has aesthetic appeal as it retains the character of the time and has high social and cultural significance. Sharpies Golf sign has strong associations with the business district of Elizabeth Street, Central Sydney. The sign has strong associations with professional golfer Lindsay Sharp, the first professional to win the newly introduced National Ambrose competition in Australia. Sharpies Golf sign is rare on a national level as a surviving animated neon sign in situ. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

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Location: 216-220 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills [Sydney City]

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani).

Neon Gas was first discovered by William Ramsay and M.W Travers in 1898 in London. Neon signs such as the Sharpies Golf House sign are the result of French engineer and chemist, Georges Claude. In 1902 Georges and his French Company Claude applied an electric discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas to create a neon lamp. By 1923, Claude Neon had introduced neon gas signs to America however neon reached its height of popularity in the 1940’s and 1950’s with many colourful designs that advertised a huge range of products.

The Golf House grew out of a pawn shop run by Russian immigrant, Harry Landis who arrived in Sydney via Broken Hill in 1917. In 1918, Landis purchased the Railway Loan Office at 226 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills where he opened a pawnshop. In 1923 he moved the pawnshop into 220-222 Elizabeth Street, where two of Harry's sons entered the business, Harry Jr. and Jack. The pawn shop became divided into two main sections, musical instruments, run by Harry Jr. and sporting goods, particularly golf equipment run by Jack. After WWII military service, Jack Landis established the Golf House. Harry Landis Sr. died in 1953 and the shop was divided between the two sons.

The Golf House sign was built between 1958 & 1964 by Consolidated Neon, which became Claude Neon, who owned and maintained the sign which they leased to the Golf House. Ron Ries, an employee at Consolidated Neon for over 50 years remembers how the Golf House sign was designed and drawn out on a blackboard in fluorescent paint. It was then sized and priced and taken out for the signing of a contract. Ron Ries then took out the drawings for approval at the Council Health and Building Department and when the approval was granted, he supervised the construction of the sign. It was first laid out in full size on a brown paper pattern in the layout room. The pattern was then used to make the steel skeleton, which had a front return and a back to enclose and waterproof the electrics. The neon tubes and globes were attached to the skeleton. The sign won the Outdoor Advertising Association award for the best sign in 1964.

In 1977 Harry Landis Jnr moved his music business to Park Street, leaving The Golf House as the sole occupant. In 1978 he sold The Golf House to his son Rob, who worked in the business and had two investor partners. While the shop was the premier golf store in Sydney, it relied to a great extent on the second hand trade and new equipment was increasingly being made more cheaply in Taiwan and elsewhere. It became uneconomical to buy and refurbish old golf clubs. In 1985 Rob Landis and his partners sold the stock and the half-share in the building to professional golfer, Lindsay Sharp, while retaining the name. Lindsay was unwilling to pay the price asked for the goodwill and renamed the business Sharpies Golf House. The sign had to be changed to Sharpies Golf House by Claude Neon because Lindsay did not own the original name. Lindsay Sharp is known for his sporting efforts as he was the first professional to win the newly introduced National Ambrose competition in Australia. The internationally known "Ambrose" competition was first played at Victor Harbor in February, 1966. The Ambrose competition was introduced to Australia by Richard and Mary Ambrose from Spring Valley Country Club in Michigan USA, who had cattle interests in the Victor Harbor district. The Ambrose competition was introduced as a concept known as "the shotgun game" to the Victor Harbor club during 1965. The shotgun

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game was a concept game which had been played at the Ambrose’s home club. The Victor Harbour club included it in their tournament calendar and committed itself to the promotion of the concept throughout Australia. It was at Victor Harbor that the game format first became known as the "Ambrose". The first National Ambrose competition was played at the then new Liverpool Golf Club in Sydney, on the 6th March, 1974, for a purse of $5100.00. The best score recorded for an Ambrose event was scored by a team comprised of professionals Jerry Breaux and Lindsay Sharp.

In 1996 Lindsay Sharp sold the half-share in the premises and in 1999 he sold the business to Ray Drummond, who has a number of golf stores (Nevada Bob’s Golf Shops). In 2002, Claude Neon sold the Sharpies Golf House sign to Nevada Bob. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Communication (none)

Designer: Ron Ries Maker / Builder: Claude Neon

Year Started: 1958 Year Completed: 1964 Circa: No

Physical Description: Sharpies Golf House sign is a skeleton sign made of steel angle with a return and a back to enclose the electrics. The sign is composed of a figure hitting a golf ball in an arc over the words "SHARPIES GOLF HOUSE". The sign has approximately 80 neon tubes bent and attached. The letters of the sign are approximately 14m long by 1.5m high. The elements consist of the Golfer, the club in three positions, the ball, with a metal track and a chaser of about 48 globes, the hole and the flag. The flag on the sign shows the number 19. Golfers understand that the 19th hole is the clubhouse where they all get together for a drink after golf. Over the past 44 years of operation the golfer has hit the ball over 17 million times.

Physical Condition: Although the sign continues to function, the structure of the sign is in very poor condition. Parts of the curved upper section and the bases of the letters have already corroded to the point that pieces have broken away. The curved lightweight metal top member with external light bulbs is severely rusted along its base. Some places have already fallen from the structure. The pan letters of the sign are severely corroded along their bases. Some pieces of this section of the sign have fallen from the structure. Although the fixing bolts of the letters are in reasonable condition, there is an immediate risk that other places may fall. Some nuts and bolts on the rear support trusses are corroded to the point where they no longer exist. There is corrosion in the gussett plates and in other areas, though not severe. The rear beam is severely corroded at top and bottom flange splice plates.

Modification Dates: In 1985, Claude Neon Pty Ltd changed the name "The Golf House" to "Sharpies Golf House".

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Item Name: Sharpies Golf House Sign

Location: 216-220 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills [Sydney City]

Recommended It is recommended that the curved upper section of the sign and the bases of the letters be Management: rebuilt. The rear support trusses, beam and related structural members should be made a priority for repair.

Management: Recommended Management Produce a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) Sharpies golf sign has historical associations with the commercial growth around Elizabeth Street and of the neon sign fad in Sydney during the 1950's. The sign is also historically significant as the only animated neon sign located on top of one of Australia's longest serving golf shops. Criteria b) Sharpies golf sign has historical associations with the commercial growth around Elizabeth Street and of the neon sign fad in Sydney during the 1950's. The sign is also historically significant as the only animated neon sign located on top of one of Australia's longest serving golf shops.

Criteria c) The sign retains the character of the time - the golfer dressed in his 1950s clothes, swinging his club and getting the dream of every weekend hacker - a hole in one. Originally designed to convey commercial information, the sign has been visible in a prominent location for half a century resulting in it becoming a landmark element. The sign is aesthetically significant as it adds to the character of the landscape that defines the city's identity. Criteria d) The sign retains the character of the time - the golfer dressed in his 1950s clothes, swinging his club and getting the dream of every weekend hacker - a hole in one. Originally designed to convey commercial information, the sign has been visible in a prominent location for half a century resulting in it becoming a landmark element. The sign is aesthetically significant as it adds to the character of the landscape that defines the city's identity. Criteria e) Sharpies Golf house sign has research potential in regards to Sydney's neon sign phase during the 1950's and 1960's. Criteria f) Sharpies Golf sign has high rarity values as a unique example of 20th century advertising. It is also rare on a national level as one of the first original animated neon signs to be listed on a heritage register. It is also the only documented original animated neon sign still in operation nationwide. Criteria g) Sharpies Golf sign is representitve of the animated neon sign fad that had its beginnings in 1920's and reached its peak during the 1940's and 1950’s. Integrity / Intactness: Although there is some corrosion of metal elements the sign can still demonstrate its State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 4

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Location: 216-220 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills [Sydney City] Integrity / Intactness: significance

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 24/07/2006 Date Updated: 01/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Inter-War Apartment Building

Location: 7 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 7 Elizabeth Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Residential buildings Category: Block of Flats Owner: Private - Individual

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The building is historically significant because it is the only block of flats constructed in the Significance: City of Sydney during the 1930s to have survived and still fulfil its function as a residential building. The building is aesthetically significant because of its associations with two prominent and influential designers, architect Emil Sodersten and interior designer Marion Hall Best. Emil Sodersten was one of the most important architects to have practised in New South Wales during the 1920s and 1930s. Famous for the residential flat buildings that were designed in his office, this is the only one known to have been constructed in the CBD and shows the influence of the modernist European architecture on his work. Its interiors were an early and well publicised example of the work of Marion Hall Best, who went on to exercise a great influence on interior design in this state during the three decades after World War II. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government

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Location: 7 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

The building stands on part of Allotment 8 Section 39 of the City of Sydney, which was granted to James Norton on 23 April 1841. The land remained in the possession of Norton and his family until sold in October 1880 to a consortium of William Paling, Andrew McCulloch and William Billyard. In August 1895 the land was sold to Mrs Elizabeth Kirby, By 1896 the undertaking concern of Mrs. P. Kirby & Son Limited was established on the site and occupied the premises until the mid 1920s. During that time the then large parcel of land was split up via several transactions between Mrs Kirby and William Kirby. In October 1925 Mrs Kirby sold the property to William Lowe, who transferred its title to a company called Elizabeth House Limited. The company took out two mortgages over the buildingon the site in 1928. The building was used for investment purposes, with leasing to a restaurant proprietor and the Everhot Electric Company in 1929. Elizabeth House Limited, probably under pressure from the effects of the Great Depression, sold the property at the end of 1934 to a consortium of Jack Faviel accountant and Hugh Poate, surgeon, and Kenneth Douglas, bank manager. An application for a new block of flats was lodged with the City Council on 28 November 1928 by architect Emil Sodersten, who also designed the building. Title to the property was transferred to a company called Seven Elizabeth Street Limited on 1 June 1939 and an application to demolish the existing building on the site lodged about two weeks later. The company then mortgaged the property to the Commonwealth Bank the following September, presumably to finance the construction of 7 Elizabeth Street. The prominent interior designer Marion Hall Best was employed to design the interior of the flats. In August 1960 the title to the building was transferred to Seven Elizabeth Street Units Limited, and in 1977 it was converted to strata title. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village (none)

Designer: Emil Sodersten, Architect and Marion Hall Best interior designer (interiors) Maker / Builder: H.W. Thompson & Co.

Year Started: 1939 Year Completed: 1940 Circa: No

Physical Description: A 10-storey apartment building, designed to contain 54 flats with two shops at ground floor level and a basement restaurant. The building is steel framed with reinforced concrete floors,clad with pale brickwork, and originally had green painted steel framed windows. The main ground floor foyer was originally paved with terrazzo. Each level above the ground floor contained 6 bachelor flats.

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Item Name: Inter-War Apartment Building

Location: 7 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Physical Condition: Although there are modifications, the building retains a relatively large amount of original building fabric. Original furniture is also known to exist within the building, and it is also understood that some of the furnishing fabrics are still extant.

Modification Dates: Original steel framed windows have been replaced with aluminium framed sashes. The stair to the basement has been fire isolated. The shopfronts have been altered - stall boards and glazing have been removed and new fabric inserted. The ground floor exterior has been reclad with travertine. The flagpole is missing. The interior of the building has been unsympathetically altered through insensitive fire upgrading. Many kitchens and bathrooms are altered, however at the time of the National Trust listing at least one flat retained the original kitchen and most of the original bathroom fabric in 2004. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building has historic significance as the one of the few blocks of flats constructed in the CBD in the 1930s which has survived and still fulfils its original function as a residential building. Criteria b) The building is associated with the work of architect Emil Sodersten and interior designer Marion Hall Best.

Criteria c) The building has signifucance for its association with and as a representative of the work of prominent architect Emil Sodersten, and influential interior designer Marion Hall Best. Well known for his residential flat buildings, No. 7 Elizabeth St is the only one known to have been designed by Emil Sodersten within the CBD, and shows the influence of modernist European architecture on his work. Its interiors were an early and well publicised example of the work of Marion Hall Best, who went on to exercise a great influence on interior design in N.S.W. during the three decades after World War II.

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Item Name: Inter-War Apartment Building

Location: 7 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Criteria d) The building is a rare example of inner city living dating from the inter war period in the CBD. Criteria e) The site is not identified in an archaeological zoning plan and the area has been well researched and it is unlikely that the site would reveal further information that would contribute to the significance of the area.

Criteria f) The building is rare within the centre of the CBD. Criteria g) The building is a representative example of an inter war block of apartments found in the centre of Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High externallyand Medium internally

References: Author Title Year Decoration and Glass (magazine) June 1940 1940 Roy Lumby National Trust of Australia (NSW) Classification Report 2003

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 21/07/2005 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Inter-War Apartment Building

Location: 7 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Inter-War Apartment Building

Location: 7 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Commercial Terrace

Location: 35-39 Erskine Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 35-39 Erskine Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names:

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The commercial terraces at 35-39 Erskine Street are part of the 19th Century pattern of Significance: small scale retail & residential development on the north western fringe of the CBD. They reflect the social & economic make-up of the city in that area for most of the 19th & 20th centuries and are considered of local significance. They also reflect the important period of redevelopment that occurred in the city during the later decades of the nineteenth century. The two storey rendered brick terrace at 35-39 Erskine Street combines with other buildings opposite at 42-66A Esrkine between Sussex & Kent Streets to preserve an historic townscape and streetscape character. This quality of streetscape continues up the hill as far as 82 Erskine Street. No 35 Erskine Street is the sole remaining externally intact terrace that was formerly part of a more extensive row from 35- 45 Erskine Street, although Nos 37-39, still remain relatively intact and perceivable as being part of the Victorian row . It has aesthetic significance at a local level as being an elaborate representative of the Victorian Italianate style, with an unusual decorative dormer treatment. Historical Notes Erskine Street is said to have commenced as a little track that ran from the wall of the or Provenance: wynyard Barracks down to Cockle Bay. The track ended at a rocky promontory known as Soldiers point where the military had constructed a substantial bathing pavilion and jetty. By 1822, plans of the city show Erskine Street to be well formed with several building erected, and it was officially aligned and naemd in 1835. Harpers Plan of 1822 shows a free standing building half way between Sussex and Kent St on the so9uthern side of Erskine, approximately where the terrace now stands. Percy Doves Plan, of 1880, Section 57 shows the buildings not yet constructed. The 1888 Block Plan, Section 57 shows the terraces to be in existence.

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Item Name: Commercial Terrace

Location: 35-39 Erskine Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: Maker / Builder:

Year Started: 1880 Year Completed: 1885 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: Nos 35-39 Erskine Street are a remaining terrace, that once formed part of a more extensive Victorian elaborately designed Italianate row from 35- 45 Erskine Street. No 35 is the last terrace remaining with an intact dormer windowand mansard roof in this part of the city.

Physical Condition: In general, the Erskine Street commercial terraces are representative of the former character of the western edge of the CBD. The external form has been maintained although the interiors have been substantially altered although their spatial quality remains. The terrace together with the terraces opposite along the length of erskine Street between Sussex and Kent form an integral part of the Erskine Street townscape. Intrusive Elements:Modifications replacing original shopfronts, signs at No. 48, rear addition and upper deck at No. 48.

Modification Dates: Whilst No 35 is highly intact, Nos 37-39 have an additional storey added in lieu of the attic roof space, in the latter half of the twentieth centur. Cantileverd awnings and aluminium shopfonts have been added. Recommended Encourage replaement of awning, relpacement of timber joinery shopfront, encourage Management: reinstatement of attic form and cornice to Nos 37-39.

Management:

Further Comments:

Criteria a) The commercial terrace at 35 Erskine Street together with the terraces opposite at Nos 42- 66A record the scale & form of late 19th century & early 20th Century development at the north western fringe of the CBD. They reflect the social & economic make-up of that portion of the city for most of the 19th & 20th Century. Generally they reflect the affluent & major period of Sydney's development in the later decades of the nineteenth century. Has historic significance locally. They also reflect the important period of redevelopment that occurred in the city during the later decades of the nineteenth century. No 35 Erskine Street is the sole remaining externally intact terrace that was formerly part of a more extensive row from 35- 45 Erskine Street, although Nos 37-39, still remain relatively intact and perceivable as being part of the Victorian row . Criteria b)

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Item Name: Commercial Terrace

Location: 35-39 Erskine Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Criteria c) Has aesthetic significance at a local level as being an elaborate representative of the Victorian Italianate style, with an unusual decorative dormer treatment. The form of the building remaining intact at No 35 is rare remaining example of dormer windows in a mansard roof in this part of the city. Together with the terraces opposite at 42-66A, the commercial terraces at the western end of Erskine Street are important components in a distinctive townscape group between Sussex & Kent Streets. They establish an attractive, repetitive composition stepping up the slope of Erskine Street. This quality of streetscape continues up the hill as far as 82 Erskine Street. Criteria d)

Criteria e)

Criteria f) Has significance at a local level as being an elaborate representative of the Victorian Italianate style, with an unusual decorative dormer treatment. Criteria g) The commercial terrace at 35-39 Erskine Street isrepresentative of the use of classically inspired forms & stylistic elements for small scale, late Victorian commercial development.

Integrity / Intactness: Whilst No 35 is highly intact, Nos 37-39 have an additional storey added in lieu of the attic roof space.

References: Author Title Year Noel Bell Ridley Smith & Partners 42-66 Erskine Street Sydney Conservation Management 2001 Plan

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 04/08/2006 Date Updated: 17/08/2006 Status: Basic

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Item Name: Commercial Terrace

Location: 35-39 Erskine Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Sydney County Council Building (former)

Location: 554-570 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 554-570 George Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Energy Australia, Sydney Electricity

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner: Department Of Energy

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The Sydney County Council building is an outstanding example of a Late Twentieth Century Significance: International style commercial building with landmark qualities. The building dates from one of the key period of layers for the development of the City of Sydney and makes positive contribution to the streetscape. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

The Sydney County Council operated from 1936 until 1991 as the principal authortiy for the

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Item Name: Sydney County Council Building (former)

Location: 554-570 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

supply of electricity in Sydney. It became Sydney Electricity in 1991 until 1996 when it became Energy Australia as a result of the merger of several electricty suplliers within NSW and across Australia. Until the beginning of the 20th century Sydney was largely a gas powered city. The switch to electricity was a rapid change with most trams and other services powered by electricty by 1914 and the railway system electrified between 1926 and 1930 coinciding with the construction of the City Circle line and the connection to the north shore across the harbour bridge. Electricty demand soared in the 1950's and 1960's and the building was contructed as the headquarters of the Sydney County Council in 1964-1966. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 4. Settlement Utilities (none)

Designer: Fowell Mansfield Jarvis and MacClurcan Maker / Builder:

Year Started: 1964 Year Completed: 1966 Circa: No

Physical Description: The building is a 24 storey commerical office building on a prominent corner site. The building is constructed of reinforced concrrete and steel with a curtain wall of glass and spandrel panels.The façade is divided into narrow vertical panels which accentuates the height of the building. The lower podium extends acrooss the whole site and is 3 storeys in height with a recessed colonnade at ground floor level.The 4th floor is recessedwith a roof terrace and the 19 storey tower is offset. The building originally featured a showroom at ground floor level with a council chamber and executive offices on Level 5.

Physical Condition: The building is in good condition.

Modification Dates: The building has been recently refurbished and the tower re-clad but the original design concept and form is intact. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, shall not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the Council Planning Instruments.

Management: Recommended Management Produce a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a

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Item Name: Sydney County Council Building (former)

Location: 554-570 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building has historic significance as it dates from the key period of development of post war development in the City of Sydney. Criteria b) The building is associated with the Sydney County Council and the supply of electricity in Sydney.

Criteria c) The building is a good example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style commerical building which demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style. This includes the recessed ground floor colonnade, offset tower and materials. Criteria d) The building has social significance as a major centre for the supply of electrical goods in Sydney and for cooking demonstations promoting electrical appliances. Criteria e)

Criteria f) The building is not rare. Criteria g) The building is a representative example of a Post War International style commercial building found in Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High

References: Author Title Year Fowell Mansfield Jarvis & Maclurcan Plans 1965

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Item Name: Sydney County Council Building (former)

Location: 554-570 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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SHI Number City of Sydney Heritage Database 2424007 Heritage Inventory Report

Item Name: General Pants store, Bras and Things store

Location: 395-397 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 395-397 George Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: Kitchings, The Emporio

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Retail and Wholesale Category: Shop Owner:

Admin Codes: 4031 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Retail Former Uses: Retail

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of Of historical and associational significance, demonstrating a scale and building style now Significance: atypical in its location once the predominant type. Of aesthetic significance for its differential Italianate detailing as a pair of buildings that was built as a single development. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

Kitchings 28 years occupancy.

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Item Name: General Pants store, Bras and Things store

Location: 395-397 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Themes: Designer: Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1895 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: Although differentially treated as Italianate styled facades, the development has common features including vermiculated sandstone quoins, decorative stone parapets and stone bracketed cornices, art nouveau window architraves and polychromatic brickwork and sandstone banding are a few of the details that make this building one of stylistic variety and aesthetic interest. No 395 has triplet Italianate arched openings and art nouveau parapet treatment whilst No 397 has art nouveau window architraves and Italianate balustraded parapet . Their scale is modest by comparison to surrounding buildings. Interiors of No 397 demonstrative of 1990 upper floor retailing offices and storage areas. Category:Group of Buildings. Style:Victorian Free Classical. Storeys:4. General Details:Refer to Archaeological Zoning Plan.

Physical Condition: The brickwork and stonework is in poor condition, and the art nouveau stone parapet of No 395 has been partly removed, probably due to its poor condition. The brick and stonework of No 395 has been painted over.

Modification Dates: The intrusive awning of 395 dates from c 2000. Shopfronts have been continually modified. No 395 has been entirely painted. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls. Stonework and brickwork should be conserved, and paintwork removed from the exterior of No 395. The awnings of both should be removed and replaced by more sympathetically designed awnings. Shopfronts should be replaced by more sympathetically designed assemblies.

Management:

Further Comments: LocalThemes:Shops and Markets Comments:Was heritage item in 1989, listing revoked under LEP 1992-conservation of heritage items

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Item Name: General Pants store, Bras and Things store

Location: 395-397 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) Of historical and associational significance, demonstrating a scale and building style now atypical in its location once the predominant type. Criteria b)

Criteria c) Of aesthetic significance for its differential Victorian Italianate detailing as a pair of buildings developed as a whole. Whilst various stylistic Italainate features are utilised on both facades including red face tuckpointed brickwork banded with stonework coursing, vermiculated sandstone quoins and sandstone bracketed cornices, the composition offsets the use of other Italianate features on each building including art nouveau window architraves of 397 offset against triplet Italianate arched openings of 395, and balustraded stone parapet of 397 offset with the art nouveau stone parapet features of 395 making this pair one of stylistic variety and aesthetic interest. Criteria d)

Criteria e)

Criteria f) A pair of buildings of scale and of refined Victorian Italianate detailing now rare in this section of the CBD. Criteria g) The buildings are rare survivng examples in this section of the CBD that represent a major period of re development in the city.

Integrity / Intactness: Despite the poor conditon of the fabric, the exterior of the buildings are highly intact, and where components are absent, there is remaining fabric to be used as a model for reinstatement.

References: Author Title Year Anita Heiss Aboriginal People and Place, Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City

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Item Name: General Pants store, Bras and Things store

Location: 395-397 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: R M Williams store and commercial premises

Location: 389 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 389 George Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Other - Commercial Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of 389 George Street is a highly intact brick Inter-War Functionalist style building with a well Significance: designed stylistic response to its location on the corner of a city laneway. The Inter-War Functionalist style is rarely represented in this retail section of the CBD. Historical Notes or Provenance:

Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village Rare Sydney Laneway

Designer: Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1935 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: Four storey cream brick Inter-War Functionalist style building fronting George Street at the corner with Terry Lane. The building has asymetrical façades, the George Street facade comprising two sections, a curved projecting window bay responding to the corner location

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Item Name: R M Williams store and commercial premises

Location: 389 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

and a solid brick section with extended vertical stepped brick fin element. The horizontal banded window bay has curved glass returning around the corner of the building into the laneway. The parapet is decorated with stringer courses and dentil work in contrasting red brown brickwork. A curved awning extends around the corner into the laneway. The entrance and stairway to the upper levels is incorporated into the laneway facade as a vertical feature comprising four strip windows that extend the full height of the upper three floors above the curved awning. The window reveals are constructed using bullnose bricks. The construction of two upper floors in the late twentieth century does not have a significant impact on the sections of the building visible from the street.

Physical Condition: The condition of the fabric is generally good.

Modification Dates: Major modifications include the construction of an unsympathetic addition comprising two upper floors in the late twentieth century. Minor modifications include the relpacement of the steel framed windows with aluminium framed, alterations to the shopfront, the addition of a broader street awning beneath the original curved awning and granite cladding to the laneway façade at street level. Recommended Management: Management:

Further Comments:

Criteria a) 389 George Street is a Inter-War Functionalist style is rarely represented in this section of the CBD. Criteria b)

Criteria c) 389 George Street is a highly intact brick Inter-War Functionalist style building with a well designed stylistic response to its location on the corner of a city laneway. The Inter-War Functionalist style is rarely represented in this section of the CBD. Criteria d)

Criteria e)

Criteria f) The Interwar Functionalist style is rarely represented in this section of the CBD. Criteria g)

Integrity / Intactness:

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Item Name: R M Williams store and commercial premises

Location: 389 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Goodsell Building

Location: 8-12 Chifley Square, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 8-12 Chifley Square DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Address: 103 - 107 Phillip Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The Goodsell Building is a good example of a Late Twentieth Century International style Significance: Government building with landmark qualities. The building dates from one of the key period of layers for the development of the City of Sydney and makes positive contribution to the streetscape. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to

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Item Name: Goodsell Building

Location: 8-12 Chifley Square, Sydney [Sydney City]

choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani

The building was constructed during a period of rebuilding by the NSW State Government which consolidated many State Government Departments into new buildings in the 1960's and 1970's. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 7. Governing Government and administra State; Commerce

Designer: Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1970 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: The building is a 24 storey commercial office building on a prominent corner site. The building is constructed of reinforced concrrete and steel with a curtain wall of polished pre cast and glass panels.The façade is divided into narrow vertical panels which accentuates the height of the building. The ground floor colonnade is framed in off form concrete and features wide steps and a saw tooth glass wall.

Physical Condition: In good condition with a high degree of original fabric intact above awning level and high potential for restoration.

Modification Dates: The building has had several minor modifications primarily confined to the ground floor level and interiors. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, shall not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with Council Planning Instruments.

Management: Recommended Management Produce a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information

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may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building has historic significance as it dates from the key period of post war development in the City of Sydney. Criteria b) The building is associated with the NSW Government Architect.

Criteria c) The building is a good example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style commerical building which demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style. This includes the recessed ground floor colonnade, cladding and materials. Criteria d)

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Criteria f) The building is not rare. Criteria g) The building is a representative example of a Late Twentieth Century commercial building found in Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High

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Item Name: Guardian Assurance Building (former)

Location: 34 Hunter Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 34 Hunter Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Insurance company/b Owner: Private - Individual

Admin Codes: 2225 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Commercial Office Former Uses: Commercial Office

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance: Local

Statement of The building dates from one of the key period of layers for development of Insurance and Significance: Asssurance companies in the northern section of Pitt Street during the 1950's and 1960's. It is a good example of a Post War International style commercial building of high quality design by a prominent architectural firm using fine materials and highly intact externally. The building is loacted on a prominent corner site and makes a positive contribution to the streetscape. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

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Item Name: Guardian Assurance Building (former)

Location: 34 Hunter Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

The building is located in at the Hunter/Bridge Street end of the city which has a long association with companies dealing in insurance, including Burns Phillip and Phoenix Insurance (Orient Overseas Building). It was built for the Guardian Assurance Company between 1961 and 1963, and officially opened by Sydney's Lord Mayor in April 1963. The site had over a century of association with the insurance industry, beginning with the Corporation of Sydney Insurance Company in 1856, continuing with the Commercial Union Assurance Company in 1881 and including the Alliance Assurance Company Ltd. In 1940 Raine and Horne purchased the Pitt and Hunter Street corner from the Commercial Assurance Company and occupied the existing building until 1953 when they sold the property to the Guardian Assurance Company Ltd. Upon completion of the new building in 1963 the Guardian Assurance Group of Companies occupied the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors. The Pitt and Hunter Street ground floor corner was let to the Grahame Book Company. Other tenants of the building included the English, Scottish & Australian Bank, Raine & Horne, the Provincial Insurance Company and the Sun/Alliance Insurance Group. Reviewing the new building in May 1963 the magazine Building: Lighting: Engineering observed that the architects, Stanford, Moore and Farrington, had decided not to follow the curtain wall trend. Instead a notable feature of the building was the "pattern formed by the windows with their spandrels and mullions". At street level the building was faced with polished black granite, and the superstructure was faced with Wombeyan white marble with Italian green spandrels. The magazine noted that building was "the first major Sydney project to use a new system of air-conditioning ducting". This system was known as "spiroducting" and allowed high velocity air flow without noise. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: Stafford, Moor and Farrington Maker / Builder: Welch Brothers Pty Ltd

Year Started: 1960 Year Completed: 1960 Circa: No

Physical Description: The building is 12 storeys in height and the façade is dominated by a concrete grid, ten panels by ten storeys, which sits proud of the main marble clad façade. The frame is clad in aluminium while the horizontals are concrete finish. The grid is articulated by marble clad vertical columns with green marble panels below the pivot aluminium windows. The building assembles an excellent range of quality materials. The base is clad in black granite with full height glass set behind the black granite clad columns and façade above. The cantilever awning is set below the main façade and between the columns. There is a central lift core and the foyer is lined with original reversed matched marble and stainless steel panels with original red mosaic tiles to the stair. The ground floor stainless steel cantilever awning projects inside and retains the original eggcrate light panels. The roof is unusual for its angled precast aggregate panels to the plant room. Internally the building has been

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remodelled but the foyer spaces are relatively intact.

Physical Condition: In good condition with a high degree of original fabric intact and high potential for restoration.

Modification Dates: Various modifications internally mainly relating to partitions to upper floor areas. Recommended General: The overall form of the building should be retained and conserved. A conservation Management: plan should be prepared to guide the future use and maintenance of the building. Finishes never intended for painting, such as the marble and granite should remain unpainted and should continue to be appropriately maintained. Surfaces intended for painting should continue to be painted in appropriate colours.

Exterior: All remaining intact fabric on the external facades should be retained and conserved. As the original building has a well proportioned relationship between the projecting concrete frame and the facade, the addition of further floors to the building should not be contemplated. Alterations to the podium should not be considered. Any future development should preserve the existing form, external surfaces and materials of the facade. Door and window openings should not be enlarged or closed in.

Interior: All remaining intact interior fabric such as the ground floor lobby and upper foyers should be retained and conserved. As the general office interiors have been extensively remodelled and there is little of significance remaining inside these areas, further alterations could be carried out provided any future internal work does not compromise the facades of the building, or extant original internal fabric.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building has historic significance as it dates from the key period of development of inursnce company buildings at the northern end of Pitt Street. Criteria b) The building is associated with Guardian Assurance.

Criteria c) The building is a good example of Post-War International style and demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style. It was designed by prominent architects using quality materials and detailing. Criteria d)

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researched and it is unlikely that the site would reveal further information that would contribute to the significance of the site.

Criteria f) The building is rare within the City of Sydney. Criteria g) The building is a rare example of a highly intact Post-War International style commercial building within the City of Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High externally and ground floor foyer.

References: Author Title Year Building Lighting Engineering 1963 Architecture in Australia (Freeland) p 127 RAIA Listing Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City Freeland Architecture in Australia Ian Kirk Review of potential CBD heritage items 2006

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 27/09/1996 Date Updated: 01/08/2006 Status: Completed

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Item Name: King George Tower (former)

Location: 378-394 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 378-394 George Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names: American Express Tower, NRMA

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Commercial Office/Bui Owner: Multiple Owners

Admin Codes: 2098 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Offices, Retail Former Uses: Offices, Retail

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of The building is an outstanding example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style Significance: building designed by prominent architect John Andrews. It has been hailed as an exemplar example of modern commercial architecture and winner of the Sulman Award in 1983. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

The building was designed in by John Andrews in 1976.

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Location: 378-394 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

"After graduating from Sydney University in 1956, Andrews left the country for study at Harvard University and did not return to practise in Australia until 1969. During his first years in North America he worked in Toronto, first with John B. Parkin and Associates and after 1961 from his own practice. By the time he returned to Australia, Andrews has established a wide reputation as and creative designer through such buildings as Scarborough College in Toronto, Gund Hall, the Harvard Graduate Schoo of Design and Miami Passenger Terminal. His presence in this country has provided a stimulating influence for Australian architecture." (extract from Australian Architecture Since 1960) RAIA Merit Award (Civic Design), 1982. Sulman Award, 1983. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: John Andrews International Maker / Builder:

Year Started: 1976 Year Completed: 1976 Circa: No

Physical Description: The triangular form and set back of the building arose from several considerations. Due to the configuration of the site and the regulations pertaining to its development, the triangular plan maximised the floor area possiblities of the tower. The same set back allowed the highly desirable penetration of more sun and light into the intersection. The diagonal crossing of a pedestrian path across the site provided a short cut and relived the congestion at the corner. In an earlier project for Toronto, Andrews had investigated the structural logic of a triangular, corner supported tower and the planning advantages it afforded for light and view in large floor office spaces.

It is a robust building of slip form concrete construction with an almost fortress like character in its curved, corner, service towers and the banding of cornice zone. Corbusian overtones are there in the streamlined locomotive imagery of the projecting floors of the lower levels that visually tend to rush toward the point of the intersection. The building is enclosed with full glass panels shielded by a free standing, three dimensional stainless steel space frame supporting translucent, polycarbonate panels angled on the differing faces of the building in accord with the incidence of the sun. The vitality of the building is increased by the rapid rhythm of the screens and the contrast of the lightness of the lexan panels with the sturdy character of the concrete work. (note that the glazing and stainless steel space frame have now been replaced)

The building with its pedestrian paths, low roof garden, long bar, plaza and provision of seats for waiting bus passengers or tired passers by, illustrates a concious attempt on Andrews' part to closely knit the architecture into the urban mesh.

(extract from Australian Architecture since 1960)

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Item Name: King George Tower (former)

Location: 378-394 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Physical Condition: The building is in good condition having recently undergone an extensive refurbishment by Rice Daubney in 1998.

Modification Dates: The building was refurbished by Rice Daubney Architects in 1998 which removed its distinctive sun shade façade and included additions at the ground floor level. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management: Recommended Management Produce a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: The building was listed as a heritage item in 1989 but the listing was revoked under LEP 1992.

Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building has historic significance as it dates from the key period of development of the Late Twentieth-Century International style in Sydney and the redevelopment of key inner city sites. Criteria b) The building is associated with prominent Australian & international architect John Andrews.

Criteria c) The building is an outsanding example of innovatively designed Late Twentieth-Century International Style commercial building which demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style including its exposed slip form concrete walls, curtain wall glazing and its design in respect to the corner site. Criteria d)

Criteria e) The site is not identified in an archaeological zoning plan and the area has been well researched and it is unlikely that the site would reveal further information that would contribute to the significance of the area.

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Location: 378-394 George Street, Sydney [Sydney City] g) style office building. Integrity / Intactness: Medium

References: Author Title Year Andrew Metcalf Architecture in Transition - The Sulman Award 1932 - 1996 1997 Anita Heiss Aboriginal People and Place, Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City Graham Jahn Sydney Architecture 1997 Jennifer Taylor Australian Architecture Since 1960 1990

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 29/05/2003 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Completed

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Item Name: St James Railway Station

Location: 108 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 108 Elizabeth Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Transport - Rail Category: Railway Platform/ Stati Owner: State Rail Authority

Admin Codes: 4020 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Railway Station Former Uses: Railway Station

Assessed Significance: State Endorsed Significance:

Statement of St James Station is of historic significance as one of the first two underground railway Significance: stations to operate in Australia; the other was Museum Station. It has continued in operation since opening and retains much of the original fabric externally and internally. It was important in the development of transport services in the early twentieth century and is evidence of the expansion and upgrading of public utilities in the inner city during this period. It is significant for its association with and role it played in the growth and development of the commercial, retail and social aspects of the area and as part of a larger transport scheme, as well as for its association with prominent persons such as JJC Bradfield and organisations such as the Department of Railways. The Elizabeth Street entry is a fine and largely intact example of a small scale inter-war Stripped Classical style building which adds to the character of the immediate area. The building is significant as one of two of its type and style remaining in the city (the other being Museum Station), however whilst St James Station is constructed in sandstone, the Museum Station is predominantly in brick, with sandstone detailing. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but

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Location: 108 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

From as early as 1857 plans were prepared for the extension of the railway line into the City from the terminus in Devonshire Street. Various routes were proposed over the successive years but agreement on a City railway service could not be achieved despite two Royal Commissions investigating the options. In 1908 a third Royal Commission was appointed and recommended a plan for a loop railway which included six underground stations located generally in the positions of the current stations. In 1915 the Chief Engineer of Metropolitan Railway Construction, JJC Bradfield submitted a plan for an electric underground City railway loop, a Harbour Bridge crossing and connection from the City network to two lines to head north and various branch lines heading east and west. St James was proposed to form a vital link in the network by being built on two levels. Work on the railway commenced in 1916 for the link between Central Station to Macquarie Street. Funding problems forced construction to cease in 1918. From 1917 to 1922 Bradfield maintained a publicity campaign to rally support for his scheme. Excavation work for Museum and St James Stations began in 1922. St James Station was constructed in concrete with four platforms and four tunnels, two of which have been used to date. The other two tunnels were intended as a link from Gladesville to the Eastern line yet were not constructed. Concourse areas were formed above the platforms of the stations, acting as focal points for pedestrian ways from the street entrances. After several years of construction the first underground electric railway was opened on 20 December 1926 when the new line section of Central Station, Museum and St James Stations were connected by trains. The station is listed by the State Rail Authority's Heritage Register and listed by the National Trust's Industrial Archaeological Sites List in 1983. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Transport (none)

Designer: JJC Bradfield (Engineer) Maker / Builder: Department of Railways

Year Started: 1922 Year Completed: 1926 Circa: No

Physical Description: St James Station includes the Elizabeth Street building and amenities block, the concourse, platforms, tunnels as well as the Macquarie Street entrance at Queen's Square. The main façade of the building fronting Elizabeth Street features smooth faced sandstone with

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decorative string course, steel frame windows and a pair of stone columns which frame a large opening. This entrance is covered by a bracketed awning clad in pressed metal sheet. A stepped parapet hides the slate roof and features a cartouche with the date 1926. Internally concrete steps lead to two vaulted tunnels which are lined with ceramic tiles and connect to the concourse level. A similar tunnel extends north and connects to Macquarie Street where several openings have been added in concrete with pebble finish. The four barrel vaulted concrete platforms (two are operational) are located below the concourse level and accessed via several steel and cast iron framed stairs.

Category:Group of Buildings. Style:Inter- War Stripped Classical. Storeys:1 + underground concourse and platforms Façade:Sandstone. Side/Rear Walls:Sandstone. Internal Walls:Reinf. Conc. Slabs (station & tunnels). Roof Cladding:Slate tile (entrance). Internal Structure:Reinf. Conc. Slabs, columns, vaults. Floor:Reinf. Conc. Slabs. Roof:Timber frame, reinf. Conc. Slabs. Ceilings:Set plaster on framing (entry building), exposed soffit of slab (station & tunnels). Stairs:Steel and cast iron stairs leading from the concourse to the platforms, RC stairs in entry building. Lifts:Nil.

Intrusive Elements:Pebblecrete finish to tunnel and exits at Queens Square and Macquarie Street.

Physical Condition: Structurally the entry building and amenity block are in good condition however some sandstone is fretting and stained and one window is broken. The external awning is in very good condition. Internally the entry building is generally rundown, lighting and services are in poor condition and surfaces appear soiled and dirty. The tunnels and concourse areas have been refurbishment. They retain many intact original features which are in good condition. The original wall tiling is retained, damaged and missing areas are being replaced with matching ceramic tiles. The platform area is also in the process of upgrading.

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Modification Dates: The station has been upgraded with automated turnstiles and other equipment and facilities. Recommended General: The existing form and scale of the sandstone entry building, mens amenity block, Management: tunnels, concourse and platform areas should be preserved. Future work should be in accordance with the existing Conservation Study and Policy Guidelines, updated as necessary prior to any development proposal. Any new work and maintenance programmes should seek to preserve and enhance surviving significant original fabric. Surfaces never intended for painting such as the sandstone and original tiling should remain unpainted, whilst surfaces originally intended to be painted such as timber and render should continue to be painted in appropriate colours.

Exterior: The external fabric and detail of the entry building and mens amenity block should be retained. Significant features such as the detailed string course, steel framed windows, parapets and awning over the entry should be preserved. As the exterior of the buildings are intact there should be no work which enlarges or encloses window and door openings.

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Item Name: St James Railway Station

Location: 108 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Damaged sandstone and other significant fabric should be treated appropriately, restored and/or reconstructed.

Interior: The internal form and scale of the tunnels, station spaces and concrete structure should be conserved. In particular significant features such as the barrel vaulted platforms should be retained and left exposed. The cast iron and steel stairs from the concourse areas to the platforms should be preserved. Wall tiling featuring the distinctive emerald green dado, skirting, trims, margins and capping together with cream body tiling should be retained and matching tiles applied to damaged areas or where tiles are missing. The existing timber doors, ticket booths, balustrading, railings and other fittings should be retained. The interior of the entry building should be cleaned and maintained. Lighting and broken windows should be repaired.

Management: Recommended Management Review a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) St James Station was one the first two underground railway stations to operate in Australia. It has been in continuous operation since its opening and has retained most of the original fabric intact. It was part of the development of transport services in the early twentieth century, and provides evidence of the expansion and upgrading of public utilities in the inner city during this period. Criteria b) The station is associated with the construction of the underground City Circle line in the City of Sydney and also associated with JJC Bradfield and organisations such as the Department of Railways.

Criteria c) The building provides evidence of a period of developing railway technology in NSW and Australia. The scale and methods of construction represent a major feat of engineering for its time. The sandstone entry building is a fine and largely intact example of the inter-war Stripped Classical style. The wall tiling is a distinctive and significant element of the interior of the station. Criteria d) The station was part of a transport scheme that brought the public into the city centre. It played a significant role in the growth and development of the commercial, retail and social aspects of the city. The underground location of the station is a result of citizens' concerns over losing parkland. By enabling ease of transport for workers into the city it has contributed to the expansion of Sydney's suburbia from the early to mid twentieth century. Criteria e)

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Item Name: St James Railway Station

Location: 108 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Criteria f) Australia and its high degree of integrity is rare. Criteria g) The station is representative of a low scale public building constructed in inter-war Stripped Classical style. It is representative of a facility designed to cater for the ongoing transport of Sydney's citizens. It was associated with early plans for the development of a city rail network, and demonstrates the adoption of the European style tube station. Integrity / Intactness: High

References: Author Title Year Anita Heiss Aboriginal People and Place, Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City Godden Mackay Logan Heritage Impact Assessment 1999 Lester Firth Associates Pty Ltd Conservation Study and Policy Guidelines Museum Station 1993 Lester Firth Associates Pty Ltd St James Station Evaluation of Wall Tiling Options 1993

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Latitude: -33.8722853210292 Longitude: 151.209257277283 Location validity: Spatial Accuracy: Map Name: Map Scale: 3043 AMG Zone: Easting: Northing:

Listings: Name: Title: Number: Date: Heritage Act - s.170 NSW State agency heritage State Rail Authority S170 register Local Environmental PlanSydney LEP 2005 96 9/12/2005 National Trust of Australia register NT_Register Art Deco Society register

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 22/05/2003 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Completed

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Item Name: St James Railway Station

Location: 108 Elizabeth Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Martin Place Railway Station

Location: 3 Martin Place, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 3 Martin Place DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names:

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Transport - Rail Category: Railway Platform/ Stati Owner: State Rail Authority

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of Martin Place Railway Station is significant as the only undergound railway station contructed Significance: in the centre of the city within the last 50 years. It is a good example of a Late Twentieth- Century International style structure which is highly intact with many of its original materials and finishes still in place. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani).

The alignment and profile for the Eastern Suburbs Railway was set in 1926 and construction

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Item Name: Martin Place Railway Station

Location: 3 Martin Place, Sydney [Sydney City]

on the railway was started by the NSW Department of Railways. In 1952, the project was abandoned until the mid 60s when it was started again. In 1967 the NSW Department of Railways engaged the Snowy Mountains Authority (SMA) to prepare and develop documents for the city tunnels and stations, Kings Cross tunnel and stations, and Rushcutters Bay viaduct and various other associated works.

The City and Suburban Electric Railways (Amendment) Act, Act No. 13 of 1947, made provision for the construction of further electric railways in the City of Sydney, serving the eastern, southern and south eastern suburbs. This Act amended an earlier scheme proposed by J.J.C. Bradfield in 1916, which had provided for an Eastern Suburbs Railway (via St James Station), and a South Eastern Railway. The City and Suburban Electric Railways (Amendment) Act of 1947 made provision for the construction of 44 miles of new suburban electric railways.

The Eastern Suburbs Railway is a key component of Sydney's transport network linking Central Station with the city centre and the suburb of Bondi Junction, a distance of 7.5 kilometres.

The railway was first proposed in the 1920s and construction actually commenced, but the Great Depression and the Second War caused its abandonment until the 1960s. In 1967 the New South Wales Government awarded the contract for the civil and structural design of the entire line to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority (SMA), the Commonwealth Government agency responsible for the design and construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in south-eastern Australia. The contract involved approximately 10 kilometres of single track tunnel structures and crossovers, four underground stations and one surface station, two 772metre concrete viaducts and a further 800 metres of surface works, including a prestressed concrete overbridge. Originally the line was planned to extend south through Randwick and the NSW University but this did not eventuate. The proposed stations were to be known as: Charing Cross, Frenchmans Road, Randwick, University and Kingsford.

With the establishment of SMEC in 1970 from the SMA, the contracts were transferred.The work cost $800 million and was completed in 1973. The Eastern Suburbs Railway continues to serve the people of Sydney today. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Transport Railway

Designer: Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1973 Circa: No

Physical Description: The station is below ground with access via escalators and /or stairs from Martin Place.

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Item Name: Martin Place Railway Station

Location: 3 Martin Place, Sydney [Sydney City]

Some of the access is through arcades constructed at the same time. The station contains 2 platforms and is constructed of reinforced concrete finished with pre-cast terrazzo panels, and red glazed ceramic wall tiles. The ceiling is raked following the topography of the street above and the supporting concrete beams are painted red to match the feature ceramic wall tiling also in red.

Physical Condition: The station is in good condition with a high degree of original fabric in tact.

Modification Dates: The station is little altered from its original design other than automated ticket barriers and indicator boards. Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Management: Impact Statement should be prepared for the station prior to any major works being undertaken. There should be no alterations to the station other than to reinstate original features. The principal layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features such as the terazzo cladding and ceramic tiling should be retained and conserved.

Management: Recommended Management Produce a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The station has historic significance as the only railway station constructed in the centre of Sydney in the last 50 years. Criteria b) The station is associated with the construction of the Eastern Suburbs Railway Line.

Criteria c) The station is a good example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style design which demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style. This includes the feature red ceramic wall tiling, red painted concerete structure and othe finishes and materials. Criteria d) The station is an important hub in the transport network of the centre of Sydney used daily by commuters. Criteria e)

Criteria f) The station is rare being one of only 2 constructed in the centre of Sydney within the last 50 years. Criteria g) The station is a representative example of a Late Twentieth century railway station which is part of the eastern suburbs rail line in Sydney.

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Item Name: Martin Place Railway Station

Location: 3 Martin Place, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Location: 3 Martin Place, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Selbourne Wentworth Chambers

Location: 174-180 Phillip Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 174-180 Phillip Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names:

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Other - Commercial Owner:

Admin Codes: 2224 Code 2: Code 3: City Of Sydney Current Use: Professional Suites /Courts Former Uses: Professional Suites/Courts

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance: Local

Statement of The building is significant as an important contribution to the twentieth century development Significance: of Phillip Street as the centre of Sydney's legal precinct. It is a good example of a post war international style building by prominent architects Rudder Littlemore and Rudder. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the European invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani ).

In April 1954 the Sydney Morning Herald announced that the NSW Bar Association had decided to erect a 13-storey building worth more than 500,000 pounds in Phillip Street. They

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Item Name: Selbourne Wentworth Chambers

Location: 174-180 Phillip Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

formed a cooperative company to erect the building, the purpose of which was to provide two courts and offices, accommodation for the Department of the Attorney-General, and chambers and amenities for barristers. The building was completed in 1957 and called Wentworth Chambers to commemorate William Charles Wentworth, one of the first barristers to be admitted in the Supreme Court of NSW in 1824. The building incorporated historic stones from the London Inns of Court, symbolising the common heritages and traditions of the NSW and the English Bar. Even before Wentworth Chambers was completed the Bar Association had taken steps to acquire the building adjacent to it, an 1880s building called Selbourne Chambers. In July 1960 the Sydney Morning Herald announced that the Bar Association intended to extend Wentworth Chambers by demolishing old Selbourne Chambers and by 1961 the association had decided to construct the new Selbourne Chambers as a virtual replica of Wentworth Chambers. The new building was completed in September 1963 and the two buildings together provided accommodation for 350 barristers, with a number of floors leased to the Crown. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 7. Governing Law and order (none)

Designer: BA transferred to Rudder Littlemore and Rudder from Paynter & Dixon Maker / Builder: T.C. Whittle

Year Started: 1953 Year Completed: 1953 Circa: No

Physical Description: Selbourne Wentworth Chambers is a composite of two buildings located in a block of irregular building heights and forms. The podium incorporates black granite steps set behind a row of a stainless steel columns. The fire stairs at the north and south end of the building are faced in black granite. The podium loggia is faced in travertine. The building is dominated by a modular concrete grid twelve storeys high and ten panels wide which sits proud of the tiled facade. The main body of the building is clad in dark teal ceramic tile with rectangular framed openings to the firestairs and first floor offices. The facade at the roof level includes an open screen with the horizontal tie beam continuing over at the roof terrace level. The interior has been extensively remodelled with original parts of the ground floor interior retained. The building contains remnants of artefacts of the other buildings which relates to the original occupation. The NSW Bar Association Library, Common Areas and Offices occupies the basements level with Barristers Chambers above.

are located. Category:Individual Building. Style:Post-War International. Storeys:13 + 2 basements + caretaker's flat + roof. Facade:Ceramic Tiles, Granite, Travertine, Stainless Steel columns. Side/Rear Walls:Rendered masonry. Internal Walls:Rendered brick. Roof Cladding:Waterproof membrane. Internal Structure:Reinf. conc. column and beam. Floor:Reinf. conc. slab. Roof:Reinf. conc. slab. Ceilings:Susp. plasterboard. Stairs:4. Fire Stairs:2. Sprinkler System:Yes. Lifts:6. General Details:In general the building retains its original design appearance and original fabric. Internally the building has been remodelled at

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Item Name: Selbourne Wentworth Chambers

Location: 174-180 Phillip Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

all levels..

Physical Condition: In good physical condition with a high amout of original fabric intact externally.

Modification Dates: 1958: Alts to toilets ground, 1st floor. 1962: Extensions. 1963: Alts (Rudder, Littlemore & Rudder). 1976: Alts ground floor. 1981: Alts library to basement. 1982: Partitions and alts- exercise room to top floor. 1983: Sauna and partitions. 1984: Alts roof top. 1986: New windows 9th, 13th floors. 1987: Refurbishment ground floor and lift lobbies. 1988: Alts to caretaker's flat. 1989-90: Partitions. 1991: Alts level 3. 1992 Ground level link to level 5. 1993: Alts to basement levels. 1994: Pedestrian bridge Recommended General: The overall form of Selborne Chambers and Wentworth Chambers should be Management: retained. Surfaces intended for painting should continue to be painted in appropriate colours. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken.

Exterior: As the original building is a part of a mixed street further floors to the building could be contemplated. All remaining intact fabric on the external facades, above the awning should be retained and conserved. Any future development should preserve the existing form, external surfaces and materials of the facade, and door and windows openings should not be enlarged or closed in.

Interior: As the general interiors have been extensively remodelled and there is little of significance remaining inside the building, future alterations could be carried out, provided any future internal work should not compromise further the facades of the building.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) Selborne Wentworth Chambers is historically significant as an important contribution to the twentieth century development of Philip Street as a centre of Sydney's legal precinct. Criteria b)

Criteria c) The building is a good example of a Post War International style by prominent architects Rudder Littlemore and Rudder and demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style. Criteria d) Selborne Wentworth Chambers is socially significant as part of Sydney's legal precinct and

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Item Name: Selbourne Wentworth Chambers

Location: 174-180 Phillip Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

for its continuing relationship, with the NSW Bar Association. It is held in high esteem by the legal profession. Criteria e)

Criteria f) The building is not rare but its contribution as part of Sydney's legal precinct and for its continuing relationship, with the NSW Bar Association is rare. Criteria g) The building is a representative example of a Post War International style building within the City of Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High externally.

References: Author Title Year Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City Ian Kirk Review of Potential CBD Heritage Items 2006

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 27/09/1996 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Completed

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Item Name: Selbourne Wentworth Chambers

Location: 174-180 Phillip Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Liverpool London and Globe Insurance Co. Ltd. (

Location: 62 Pitt Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 62 Pitt Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names:

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary:

Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Insurance company/b Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Former Uses:

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance: Local

Statement of The building dates from one of the key period of layers for development of Insurance and Significance: Asssurance companies in the northern section of Pitt Street during the 1950's and 1960's. It is a good example of a Post War International style commercial building of high quality design by a prominent architectural firm using fine materials and highly intact externally. The building is loacted on a prominent corner site and makes a positive contribution to the streetscape. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the European invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani ).

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Item Name: Liverpool London and Globe Insurance Co. Ltd. (

Location: 62 Pitt Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

The building is located at the northern end of Pitt St which has a long association with companies dealing in insurance, including Burns Phillip and Phoenix Insurance (Orient Overseas Building). The building was designed by Spain Cosh and Stewart Architects for the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co Ltd in 1960. It replaced an earlier building on the site. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: Spain Cosh and Stewart Architects Maker / Builder:

Year Started: Year Completed: 1960 Circa: No

Physical Description: The building is 9 storeys in height and constructed of reinforced concrete with aluminium curtain walling and windows to the main façade divided into bays and contrasting polished black granite cladding to the stair and lift tower with horizontal slit windows. The building addresses both Pitt and Spring Streets with a curved corner element and flag pole.

Physical Condition: The building is in good condition with a high degree of original fabric intact and high potential for restoration.

Modification Dates: Recommended The building should be retained and conserved. A Conservation Management Plan should Management: be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, joinery, flooring and lighting should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, shall not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the Sydney City Council Development Control Plan. The building should be retained and conserved. A Heritage Assessment and Heritage Impact Statement, or a Conservation Management Plan, should be prepared for the building prior to any major works being undertaken. There shall be no vertical additions to the building and no alterations to the façade of the building other than to reinstate original features. The principal room layout and planning configuration as well as significant internal original features including ceilings, cornices, joinery, flooring and fireplaces should be retained and conserved. Any additions and alterations should be confined to the rear in areas of less significance, should not be visibly prominent and shall be in accordance with the relevant planning controls.

Management:

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Item Name: Liverpool London and Globe Insurance Co. Ltd. (

Location: 62 Pitt Street, Sydney [Sydney City] Further Comments: general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building has historic significance as it dates from the key period of development of insurance company buildings at the northern end of Pitt Street. Criteria b) The building is associated with prominent architects Sapin Cosh and Stewart.

Criteria c) The building has aesthetic significance is a good example of a Post-War International style which demonstrates many of the key aspects of the style. Criteria d)

Criteria e) The area is not identified in an archaeological zoning plan and the area has been well researched and it is unlikely that the site would reveal further information that would contribute to the significance of the area.

Criteria f) The building and its intactness is rare within the City of Sydney. Criteria g) The building is a representative example of a Post-War International style commercial building found in Sydney. Integrity / Intactness: High

References: Author Title Year Anita Heiss "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City Ian Kirk Review of Potential CBD Heritage Items 2006

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Item Name: Liverpool London and Globe Insurance Co. Ltd. (

Location: 62 Pitt Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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SHI Number City of Sydney Heritage Database 2431120 Heritage Inventory Report

Item Name: Warehouse Group

Location: 307-325 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 307-325 Sussex Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 2075 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names:

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

Curtilage/Boundary: Site boundary and laneway crossover. Item Type: Built Group: Retail and Wholesale Category: Other - Retail & Whole Owner: Private - Individual

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Retail and wholesale commercial premises Former Uses: Warehouses

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of An extensive group of ten boldly designed late Federation warehouse units forming a Significance: substantial frontage to Sussex Street and at the rear to James Lane that once comprised an additonal units at Nos 299-305. It has aesthetic significance for its unusual façade composition , that utilises dark purple brown brickwork contrasting with rusticated stonework and render features and an array of fhree differential façade treatments to achieve an interesting rhythm.l The group retains its important association with James Lane. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

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Item Name: Warehouse Group

Location: 307-325 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

This warehousing district is closely associated with the wharf and shipping history of Darling Harbour. The group was built by Samuel Hordern as a speculative development. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 3. Economy Commerce (none) 3. Economy Transport Wharves 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village Laneway 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village Laneway 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village Rare Sydney Laneway

Designer: Maker / Builder: Development built by Samuel Hordern

Year Started: 1910 Year Completed: 1910 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: An unusually composed group of ten three storey late Federation Warehouse units built as a single row development and forming a substantial frontage to Sussex Street. The group formerly comprised additional units at 299-305 Sussex Street that completed the rythmic composition. The development is constructed of dark purple brown Flemish bond facebrick, with architectural features highlighted by utilising contrasting render and roughcast stonework . The façade subdivided into ten bays by engaged piers between which each floor level is treated as a spandrel giving a vertical expression. The design utilises dark purple brown brickwork contrasting with rusticated stonework and render features to produce an array of fhree differential façade treatments that achieve an interesting rhythm: Units 1, 2 and 4 & 5 are symmetrical about Unit 3 which has a bold roughcast stone arch. Units 4, 5 and 9 & 10 are symmetrical about Units 6, 7 and 8, which have a similar treatment to Unit 3. The double hung timber framed window assemblies span the full width of each bay, and the glazing of each sash is subdivided by two vertical galzing bars. The falling land levels to Darling Harbour result in a four storey development at the rear addressing James Lane, with garages/docking facilities at the basement level of each unit. The length of the lane alongside the development retains its sandstone crossover. The rear of the development is more simply treated with engaged piers forming ten identical bays with windows and floor spandrels spanning tbetween. The skillion roof that is set behind the parapet of the front façade, drains to an eaves gutter at the rear. The roofs of eac unit have roof lanterns that are grouped in pairs at mid position along the party walls. The sandstone crossover along the lane has been repaired with trachyte units.

Physical Condition: Much of the upper parapet areas fo the brickwork façades requires repointing. The front facades of Units 1-3 and 5 -8 have been painted over and the ground floor façade of Units 1-

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Location: 307-325 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

3 has been substantially altered by the addition of granite cladding. Whilst most units retain their timber window joinery at the upper levels, the Sussex Street level joinery has been replaced with aluminium throughout. The joinery is in a fair conditon and requires urgent repainting works. Roof plumbing in porr condition. Along James Lane, the original garage doors have been removed excpet at Unit 9 where the timber boarded doors wirth upper glazed panels remain.

Modification Dates: The modifications date from the late twentieth century and the overall level of modification is reversible including the addition of granite cladding to the street level façades of Units 1-3, the replacement of all original joinery with aluminium at Units 1-3, and the general replacement of street level joinery with aluminium. Recommended Any application should include the removal of paintwork to facades, and repointing works, Management: removal of the granite cladding, the conservation of the timber framed window joinery and replacement of the ground floor aluminium shopfronts with sympathetic solutions.

Management:

Further Comments: State Themes: Wharf and shipping history. Alterations and modifications are generally reasdily reversible. Criteria a) Of historical significance as a representative of the development of warehousing in the western sector of the central city area in the early 1900s. Criteria b)

Criteria c) Of aesthetic significance as an extensive group of late Federation Warehouse buildings sharing common materials, proportions, fenestration patterns and uses. Of aesthetic significance as an unusually composed group of boldly designed warehouse units, utilising dark purple brown brickwork contrasting with rusticated stonework and render features and each with differential façade treatment arising in an interesting rhythm. The composition was originally symmetrical, prior to the demoliton of Nos 299-305 Sussex Street. The group retains its assocataition with James Lane. Criteria d)

Criteria e) Being excavated in the past and built to all boundaries, the site has limited potential to yield archaeological information about earlier pahases in the developemnt of Sydney.

Criteria f) The row is an unusually composed group of boldly designed warehouses,

Criteria g) Of historical and environmental significance as a representative of the development of warehousing in the western sector of the central city area in the early 1900s. Integrity / Intactness:

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Item Name: Warehouse Group

Location: 307-325 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Warehouse Group

Location: 374-386 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Address: 374-386 Sussex Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Sydney 20000 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

Other/Former Names:

Area/Group/Complex: Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Built Group: Commercial Category: Warehouse/storage ar Owner:

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Commercial and retail Former Uses: Warehouse, factory, commercial uses

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of 374-386 is a pair of boldly designed Federation brick warehouse buildings with an interesting Significance: array of decorative Arts and Crafts detailing that maintain their context with the surrounding early laneway system, Douglass Lane, Eager Street and Eager Lane. Douglass Lane retains its sandstone pavement along the side elevation of No 374. The pair is built as a single development that utilises differential Federation Arts and Crafts detailing producing an interesting and unusual array of elaborate brick detailing, rendered mouldings and rough cast render . The rear facades have loading bays formerly surmounted by catheads, only one of which remains. The row reflects their location in an area that, in earlier times, was closer to Darling Harbour, where many warehouses and stores were serviced by shipping wharves as well as a network of goods railway sidings and service roads. Surviving warehouses such as this evoke that period and continue to fulfil utilitarian purposes. Form part of a row of warehouse buildings extend the full length of Sussex Street between Douglass Lane and Eager Lane, from Nos 374 to 386 Sussex Street. Medium Significance:Sussex Street facade. Loading bays on Eagar Street. Original or early timber structure. Low Significance: Douglass Lane, Eagar Place and Eagar Street facade. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

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Item Name: Warehouse Group

Location: 374-386 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani )

374-386 Sussex Street was erected some time between 1905 and 1907 by owner Bartholomew Foley. It was described as three brick stores with iron roofs, each of three floors and three `rooms'. The 1990 Conservation Study gives an alternative time of construction between 1909 and 1913, during a period of warehouse construction along the western edge of the city which followed the advent of the iron wharf and railway goods station in Darling Harbour and the Haymarket markets. Initially the entities occupying the building were associated with produce; Coastal Farmers Co-operative Society Ltd, the Co- operative Bacon Co Ltd, produce merchant Charles Barnes, and W H Barlow & Co, produce merchants and commission agents. Later tenants were more varied; manufacturers' representative R W Winning, exporter Henry Smyth, seedsmen Austraseed Traders Ltd (who installed seed cleaning machinery) and Lavery & Forrester, dairy and produce merchants. The Kandos Cement Co had a brief sojourn at Nos 384-386, using the accommodation as a bulk store. Evidently there were fires in Nos 382-386 in the 1920s and in no 380 in 1950. A shirt factory operated from no 380 in 1953. Another fire in 1976 caused severe damage at the northern end of the site and a change of ownership occurred in 1979. The building was refurbished in 1979. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none) 3. Economy Commerce (none) 3. Economy Transport Wharves 4. Settlement Towns, suburbs and village Laneway

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Year Started: Year Completed: 1905 Circa: Yes

Physical Description: The pair of three-storey Federation Arts and Craft style warehouse buildings, at Nos 374 to 386 Sussex Street is built as a single development extending the full length of Sussex Street between Douglass Lane and Eager Lane. The facades of each building, originally face brick now painted, are divided uncommonly into six bays by a central pilaster flanked by

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Location: 374-386 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

three others, all with bullnose corners. Whilst the group coexhibits tuck-pointed brickwork laid in Flemish Bond, and elaborate brick detailing, the buildings have differential detailing. The lowest level of Nos 380-386 is plain, with six four-ring segmental-headed openings, the centre two being doorways and the others shopfronts. From this base the two-storey pilasters ascend unbroken between to an entablature embellished with a dentillated architrave and cornice and a boldly patterned brickwork frieze. The parapet of Nos 380-386 rises strikingly above the centre two bays like a crowstep gable to the high central pilaster the cap which, like the outer pilasters, is crowned by a coping and ball motif. The windows are three-light timber frames with shallow three-ring segmental arches. The street level of Nos 374-378 presents as six equal elliptical arched openings. Whilst Nos 380-386 has elaborate brickwork detailing, the upper levels of Nos 374-378 are decorated with elaborate bracketed rendered sills and arch mouldings. The four central bays of Nos 374-378 are capped by paired roughcast pediments with semicircular brickwork friezes. The rear façade of the two buildings presents as four identical units each with loading bays formerly surmounted by catheads, only one of the original four which remains. As the site slopes from Sussex Street up to the east, these rear loading doors are at the equivalent of first floor level. No 378 has an additional loading bay and cathead to Douglass Lane. No 378 addresses Douglass Lane at a point where the sandstone pavement of the lane remains. Generally Minor alterations include modern shopfronts and aluminium windows in two bays Storeys:3. Side/Rear Walls: Painted brickwork. Internal Walls:Painted brick; plasterboard on studs. Roof Cladding:Corrugated metal. Internal Structure:Heavy timber posts & girders. Floor:Timber joists & flooring. Roof:Timber trusses, purlins & rafters. Ceilings:Exposed floor structure; hardboard; plasterboard. Stairs:Concrete, in No. 378. Sprinkler System:Yes. Lifts:Goods lift in No. 382. General Details:Internally the structure comprises hardwood posts and girders and floor joists except at the ground floor, which is of concrete. The front goods entrance, north of the central pier, has corner bollards.

Physical Condition: The brickwork of the entire development is in poor condition, requiring extensive repointing and has been entirely painted over. Roof plumbing in poor condition. The cathead timbers have been removed in all but one of the rear and the side loading bays. The loading bays have been infilled in an unsympathetic manner.

Modification Dates: Evidently there were fires in Nos 382-386 in the 1920s and in no 380 in 1950. A shirt factory operated from no 380 in 1953. Another fire in 1976 caused severe damage at the northern end of the site and a change of ownership occurred in 1979. The building was refurbished in 1979. A loading dock has been added to the northern façade of No 374. Some segmental arch openings have been altered along the rear elevation. Minor alterations include modern shopfronts and aluminium windows in most bays. The cathead timbers have been removed in all but one of the rear loading bays. Recommended The buildings should be conserved and their relationship to the surrounding laneways Management: retained. Conservation works should include the reinstatement of timber framed windows and doors, repointing and removal of paintwork to brickwork, reinstatement of cathead timbers and replacement of unsympathetic infil in loading bays, removal of externally mounted services.

Management:

Further Comments: State Themes:Transport, Commerce, Townships. LocalThemes:Supplying the City(Stock State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 3

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Item Name: Warehouse Group

Location: 374-386 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

Piling) The Long View (Recycling the Past) FireStairs: Comments:The schedule 1 listing was evoked under Central Sydney H-LEP 2000. Criteria a) The pair typifies a period of warehouse construction along the western edge of the city following the advent of extensive wharfage and railway goods handling along Darling Harbour and in the Haymarket area. Has historic significance locally. Criteria b)

Criteria c) 374-386 Sussex Street has aesthetic significance at a local level as a pair of boldly designed Federation Arts and Craft style brick warehouses built as a single development that maintains their context with the surrounding early laneway system, Douglass Lane, Eager Street and Eager Lane. No 378 addresses Douglass Lane at a point where the sandstone pavement of the lane remains. The development utilises differential Arts and Crafts style decorative brick detailing, rendered mouldings, and roughcast render detailing on each of the pair producing a bold and interesting facade. Criteria d)

Criteria e)

Criteria f) Nos 374-386 is unusal as a warehouse development designed in the Federation Arts and Craft style. It is rare group that retainsa complete relationship with the laneway system. Criteria g) As a former warehouse the building is representative of the many warehouses that were located in an area that was once closer to Darling Harbour and which was serviced by shipping wharves as well as a network of goods railway sidings and service roads.

Integrity / Intactness: Modifications are all readily reversible.

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Item Name: Warehouse Group

Location: 374-386 Sussex Street, Sydney [Sydney City]

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Item Name: Bay House

Location: 76-82 Bay Street, Ultimo [Sydney City]

Address: 76-82 Bay Street DUAP Region: Sydney South Suburb / Nearest Town: Ultimo 2007 Historic region: Sydney Local Govt Area: Sydney City Parish: State: NSW County:

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Area/Group/Complex: Mountain Street Conservation Area Group ID: Aboriginal Area:

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Item Type: Group: Category: Owner: Private - Corporate

Admin Codes: Code 2: Code 3: Current Use: Ground floor retail and upper levels offices Former Uses: Retail

Assessed Significance: Local Endorsed Significance:

Statement of Fine example of a four storey facebrick Federation Free Classical style Commercial Significance: Building, which makes an important contribution to the streetscape of Bay Street. It is designed by the prominent architectural practice of Morrow and Deputron and provides evidence of the development of the Grace Bros Retail Empire in the early 20th century. Historical Notes The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. Central or Provenance: Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters.

With the invasion of the Sydney region, the Cadigal and Wangal people were decimated but there are descendants still living in Sydney today. All cities include many immigrants in their population. Aboriginal people from across the state have been attracted to suburbs such as Pyrmont, Balmain, Rozelle, Glebe and Redfern since the 1930s. Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney.

(Information sourced from Anita Heiss, "Aboriginal People and Place", Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney City http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani)

Ultimo was given it name by the original land owner of the estate, the Principal of the New

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Location: 76-82 Bay Street, Ultimo [Sydney City]

South Wales Corps, Surgeon John Harris. In 1803 Harris was accused of divulging confidential information, and was subsequently court martialled, during which he noted a documentary discrepancy, where the date of the offence was given as"Ultimo" rather than "instant". The charges against him were withdrawn, after his acquittal Harris named the land he received that year as Ultimo Farm.

In 1789 the Governor gave 400 acres to the Church of England for its glebe (Latin glebe, a cold of earth), for the time-worn custom of providing for the clergy, especially in new settlements. The financially crippled Church sold several plots of The Glebe in 1828, and at a second auction that year leased a further twelve lots either side of Bay Street. In 1887, Bay Street had been designated the boundary between the Municipality of Glebe and the City of Sydney.

The Grace Brothers retail precinct, located at what was then called George Street West, grew out of a modest joint venture project between two brothers, Joseph and Albert Grace in 1885. Taking advantage of the processes of urban consolidation, the brothers quickly obtained leasehold land from the City of Sydney and the Glebe Council. Within 25 years, the Grace Brothers had left an indelible landmark in the Broadway/Bay Street Precinct.

In its first year of publication, 1858-59, the Sands Directory recorded the 15 principle residents along Bay Street from Parramatta Road to William Henry Street. By 1887, the same stretch was home to 43 principle residents.

In 1905, as part of the city beautification policy, the City of Sydney Council resumed much of Bay Street and George Street West, including the subject site. This land was made available in 1911, which allowed the Grace Bros empire to expand. The first plans for Bay House was for the company’s furniture store on the busy Francis Street. These plans were subsequently changed by the opportunity for an expanded leasehold for a new site. By 1915 the new building on Bay Street has been constructed and was used as a repository for builders’ supplies.

The building was previously headquarters for the Co-op Bookshop, who still retain one of the ground floor teneancies as an academic bookshop, and is currently tne headquarters for Readers Digest. Themes: National Theme State Theme Local Theme 3. Economy Commerce (none)

Designer: Morrow & Deputron Maker / Builder: Not ascertained

Year Started: Year Completed: 1915 Circa: Yes

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Item Name: Bay House

Location: 76-82 Bay Street, Ultimo [Sydney City]

Physical Description: A four storey facebrick Federation Free Classical department store building that features a parapet with rendered trim and decorative brickwork. The second and third storey timber framed windows have rendered sills and are pronounced by three vertical bays with piers that project above the parapet with rendered capping and a semi-circular design. The 1st floor is characterised by a series of modulated timber framed bay windows, which reflect the shop fronts at the street level. The ground floor openings have retained the large bay windows and original plate glass displays, original awning components, pressed metal ceiling detail and original tiling pattern at the shop entrances.

Physical Condition: Good

Modification Dates: 2002 - internal modifications, including new mezzanine level Recommended The overall form of the building should be retained and conserved. Due to the significance of Management: the building to the streetscape there should be no additional floors. All external fabric should be preserved in its existing form with original openings not to be enclosed or altered. Facebrick is not to be painted, rendered or coated. Surfaces that are intended to be painted should be done so in the appropriate colours. Significant fabric and spaces to be retained and conserved.

Management:

Further Comments: Heritage Inventory sheets are often not comprehensive, and should be regarded as a general guide only. Inventory sheets are based on information available, and often do not include the social history of sites and buildings. Inventory sheets are constantly updated by the City as further information becomes available. An inventory sheet with little information may simply indicate that there has been no building work done to the item recently: it does not mean that items are not significant. Further research is always recommended as part of preparation of development proposals for heritage items, and is necessary in preparation of Heritage Impact Assessments and Conservation Management Plans, so that the significance of heritage items can be fully assessed prior to submitting development applications. Criteria a) The building provides evidence of the growth of the Grace Bros Retail Empire in the early 20th century. Criteria b) Bay House is associated with the work of, and evolution of the architectural practice Morrow & Deputron. The building was also part of the Grace Bros empire which continues to serve the Australian public as part of Myers

Criteria c) Fine example of Federation Free Classical commercial building that is part of the Grace Bros Broadway retail complex. Criteria d)

Criteria e)

Criteria f) It is the only early freemasonry façade of the Grace Bros Broadway complex that has not been painted Criteria g) Representative and intact example of a Federation Free Classical style commercial State Heritage Inventory Date: 24/08/2006 Full Report with Images Page 3

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Location: 76-82 Bay Street, Ultimo [Sydney City] Criteria g) building. Integrity / Intactness: Externally intact

References: Author Title Year Graham Brooks and Associates Statement of Heritage Impact. Bay House, 76-84 Bay 2002 Street Ultimo Noel Bell, Ridley Smith and Partners Grace Bros Conservation Plan 1995

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Data Entry: Date First Entered: 21/07/2006 Date Updated: 16/08/2006 Status: Partial

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Location: 76-82 Bay Street, Ultimo [Sydney City]

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