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Macquarie Street Portfolio Hyde Park OUR ORGANISATION MACQUARIE STREET PORTFOLIO HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM THE MINT The Hyde Park Barracks was built by Built in 1811–16 as part of Governor Lachlan convicts between 1817 and 1819 to the Macquarie’s General ‘Rum’ Hospital, this design of the first civil architect (and elegant colonnaded building is one of the former convict) Francis Greenway, and oldest surviving buildings in central Sydney. is considered one of the finest colonial Providing surgeons’ accommodation, a Georgian buildings in Australia. Here at the medical stores depot and dissecting room at colony’s principal convict establishment the rear, and later as the Sydney Infirmary between 1819 and 1848, more than 50,000 and Dispensary, this hospital wing was convicts were mustered in the yard, slept integral to the medical care of convicts and in the dormitories, ate in the mess halls, paupers in the early to mid 19th century. attended trial and received punishment. In 1855 the site became the first overseas Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage branch of the Royal Mint, with a Coining List in 2010, the Hyde Park Barracks is one Factory constructed at the rear. The Sydney of the 11 Australian Convict Sites considered Mint, a centre for colonial science, industry to have outstanding universal value for their and invention, processed 1200 tonnes of role in history’s largest and longest running colonial gold into 150 million sovereigns – penal transportation system. From 1848 the principal currency used throughout the the barracks served as Sydney’s Female British Empire. From 1927 the site housed Immigration Depot, and asylum for aged a succession of government departments, and destitute women, providing shelter for and extensive conservation and adaptive over 40,000 women and their children until re-use of the site has been undertaken since 1887. Following that date it was a legal hub, 1979. The Mint now hosts our head office, housing numerous courts and government the Caroline Simpson Library & Research offices. Today we use the fabric and spaces Collection (see page 71), a bistro, an of the building, and the rich collection of espresso and gift concept store, and venue 120,000 archaeological artefacts, to unravel hire spaces. The site has been in continuous the stories of its thousands of occupants. public use since 1816. 69 Above, left to right Hyde Park Barracks Museum; The Mint. Photos © Douglas Riley for Sydney Living Museums . ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16 OUR PROPERTIES ACQUIRED PROPERTY OPENED STATUS 1980 Vaucluse House 1980 Museum 1980 Elizabeth Bay House 1980 Museum 1985* Elizabeth Farm 1984 Museum 1984 Lyndhurst (sold 2005) Offices and library 1985 Meroogal 1988 Museum 1987 Rouse Hill House & Farm 1999 Museum 1988 Rose Seidler House 1991 Museum 1990 Hyde Park Barracks Museum 1991 Museum 1990 Justice & Police Museum 1991 Museum 1990 Museum of Sydney 1995 Museum on the site of first Government House 1990 Young Street terraces – Offices 1990 Susannah Place Museum 1993 Museum 1993 Walter Burley Griffin House (sold 1995) Conservation project State house and garden 1996 Government House 1996 (transferred to DPC† in Dec 2013) 1998 The Mint 1998 & 2004 Offices and library 2003 Former Rouse Hill Public School 2010 Museum and education facilities 2007 Tusculum – Leased until May 2086‡ 2007 Exeter Farm (sold 2012) Endangered Houses Fund project 2007 Glenfield (sold 2013) Endangered Houses Fund project 2008 Nissen hut – Endangered Houses Fund project 2009 Moruya Presbyterian manse (sold 2013) Endangered Houses Fund project 2010 Throsby Park (leased 2015) Endangered Houses Fund project§ 2010 Beulah – Endangered Houses Fund project * Although the house museum opened in 1984, the property was not formally transferred to the HHT until the following year. † Department of Premier and Cabinet. ‡ Leased to the Australian Institute of Architects. § Leased to Mr Tim Throsby. 70 . OUR ORGANISATION OUR COLLECTIONS Clockwise from above Each property holds collections of historical CAROLINE SIMPSON LIBRARY HMS Supply, & RESEARCH COLLECTION Museum of Sydney and modern material related to the site. Collection, Sydney The collections include furniture, ceramics, The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection Living Museums, was established as the Lyndhurst Conservation silverware, soft furnishings, household and model © Lynne and Resource Centre in 1984. In 2004 it was renamed in Laurie Hadley. The personal accessories, costumes, artworks, Foundation for the honour of the late Caroline Simpson OAM (1930–2003), Historic Houses Trust photographs and archaeological artefacts. whose outstanding collection of Australian colonial financially supported Most of the objects in our collections are on furniture, pictures and objets d’art was gifted to us by the acquisition of this her children. The collection is a specialised research set of First Fleet ships; show to the public. resource available to anyone – staff, scholars, heritage clay tobacco pipe, Joseph Elliott, Sydney, and conservation practitioners, museum professionals Electronic access to the collections is provided to the 1831–37, excavated from – with an interest in the history of house and garden beneath the ground public through a suite of online catalogues including design and interior furnishing in NSW from the 19th floor of the Hyde the Library Catalogue, the Pictures Catalogue, century to the present day. It includes architectural Park Barracks. Photo the Colonial Plants Database and the Museums pattern books and fragments, wall and floor coverings, © Jamie North; John Collections Catalogue. Digital content is added to these Cleave James, Special manufacturers’ trade catalogues and sample books, Photograph number catalogues as resources allow. We also contribute to garden ornaments, fittings, soft furnishings, personal 461, 6 August 1921, national aggregated data services including Trove, papers and manuscripts, pictures, photographs, books NSW Police Forensic Design & Art Australia Online, the Australian Dress and periodicals. Photography Archive, Register, and the Museum Metadata Exchange. Sydney Living Museums PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION We care for a significant collection of photographs, including more than 130,000 glass-plate negatives created by the NSW Police Force between 1910 and 1964. The collection is housed at the Justice & Police Museum. 71 . ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16 ENDANGERED HOUSES FUND We began our work of conserving LYNDHURST, DARGHAM STREET, GLEBE GLENFIELD, CASULA, 1817 endangered houses in 1993, when Built in 1837 for surgeon James Bowman Glenfield was built for pioneer settler we acquired the then threatened and his wife, Sarah Macarthur, Lyndhurst Dr Charles Throsby and is regarded as one GSDA No 1 Dwelling, a display house was designed by the fashionable architect of the most complete small rural estates John Verge and is an exceptional example of the Macquarie era. It is a sophisticated at Castlecrag designed by Walter of a ‘marine villa’. The house, acquired bungalow form with wide protective Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony by us in 1983, had faced demolition for verandahs framing a suite of finely Griffin. We restored the house and future roadworks and was in a dilapidated proportioned rooms with well-executed red condition. An extensive refurbishment led cedar joinery and fittings, all of a particularly financed the construction of a new by conservation architect Clive Lucas OBE good quality for the period. house adjacent to the property. We introduced new concepts of conservation The property was transferred to us in 2007 then sold both properties (having practice, reinstating the verandahs and in a dilapidated condition, and underwent portico using modern materials in the arranged statutory protection and extensive repairs and refurbishment before absence of detailed knowledge of the it was sold to a new owner in 2013. private covenants), saving a key original form, and rebuilding missing work of two important 20th-century internal elements. TUSCULUM, ORWELL STREET, POTTS POINT architects. Lyndhurst was sold in 2005, returning to its original use as a private residence. Tusculum, built for businessman Alexander Due to the success of this conservation Brodie Sparks, is one of only three surviving project, we established the Endangered colonial villas of the 1830s designed by John WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN ‘GSDA NO 1 Houses Fund (EHF) in 2005, supported by the Verge in Potts Point (originally known as DWELLING’, CASTLECRAG Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of Woolloomooloo Hill). Now surrounded by New South Wales. The EHF is a conservation This house was built in 1920 as a display 1920s flats, it originally sat in two acres of program that identifies significant ‘at risk’ home to attract buyers to build in a 94-acre grounds facing Sydney town. properties and saves them from demolition suburban development being led by the Derelict and in danger of collapsing, the or unsympathetic development. American architect Walter Burley Griffin and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin. villa was compulsorily acquired by the We apply our expertise in order to conserve Heritage Council in 1985 and restored by and protect properties, which are then The building exemplifies Griffin’s sensitivity the Australian Institute of Architects as their offered back to the marketplace for the to landform and setting through its size, headquarters under the terms of a 99-year enjoyment of future generations; funds are massing and sandstone construction. When lease agreement. Tusculum was transferred re-invested and
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