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NT-09-2009 [barton - lake side].indd 1 side].indd lake - [barton NT-09-2009 15/9/09 6:36:32 AM 6:36:32 15/9/09 (design) Brainstorm tudio S Barton Housing Barton • epartment of the Capital Territory Collection. Territory Capital the of epartment D ibrary, L Heritage ACT the of Courtesy • (revision) Dowling Peter Dr (research) Cosgrove arol C Robert Garran Offices Garran Robert • ibrary. L Heritage ACT the of Courtesy The publishers wish to acknowledge: to wish publishers The Telopea Park Telopea • ibrary, D ibrary, L Heritage ACT the of Courtesy epartment of the Capital Territory Collection. Territory Capital the of epartment www.nationaltrustact.org.au 0533 6230 02 Civic Square ACT 2608 ACT Square Civic 1144 Box PO ational Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust ational Contact: N Contact: ACT Government ACT © Copyright 2009 2009 Copyright © ACT Government to update and reprint the tour. tour. the reprint and update to Government ACT Further funding was given by the the by given was funding Further ACT Government under the ACT Heritage Grants Program. Program. Grants Heritage ACT the under Government ACT assisted through funding made available by the the by available made funding through assisted This project was originally originally was project This A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN SIDE GRIFFIN BURLEY LAKE A heritage tour of tour heritage A 8. St Mark’s Memorial Library Memorial Mark’s St 8. 7. Edmund Barton Building Barton Edmund 7. 6. Statue of Barton of Statue 6. 5. Robert Garran Offices Garran Robert 5. Kurrajong Hotel 4. 3. Brassey House Brassey 3. Gardens Belmore – BARTON Trees Street – Housing FCC – – Original Street Signs Street Original – 2. Barton Housing Precinct Housing Barton 2. Telopea Park Telopea 1. - BARTON LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN SIDE GRIFFIN BURLEY LAKE IN PLACES LISTED 1. TELOPEA PARK The design for the new Griffin’s Waratah Parkway The Kurrajong Hotel, (Return here at Federal Capital included (now Telopea Park) acted designed by FCC architect, the end of the walk). housing areas planned for as a dividing line separating John Smith Murdoch, The best place to start this different socio-economic the then government houses opened in 1926, and walk is from the Park or groups within the to the west (Barton) from was primarily used by from the car park near community, reflecting the private houses grouped parliamentarians. Brassey Telopea Park School, The suburb of social conventions of the around Eastlake (now House, one of four guest across from the Park. Car Barton is named after time. The Barton area was Kingston) shopping centre. houses designed by non- parking is accessible at a designed for occupation Tree planting in Telopea government architects, number of locations in or Sir Edmund Barton by middle income public Park commenced in 1920 opened in 1927. The around the Park. (1849–1920), Australia’s servants. It complimented under the supervision of completion of these hostels first Prime Minister, who the areas of Ainslie, where Charles Weston, the first was timed to coincide Telopea Park is named smaller weatherboard Superintendent of Parks with the opening of the a�er the Australian held office from 1901–3. houses were built for and Gardens in Canberra. provisional Parliament native plant, Telopea sp. Barton was a member of public servants working Weston adopted a pa�ern House. A�er this, Barton The plant is more widely the NSW Legislative in ‘blue-collar’ roles, and of planting deciduous trees became a desirable suburb, known as the Waratah, Blandfordia (now Forrest on minor streets, conifers due to the proximity of the although no Waratahs Assembly from 1879. He and Griffith), where larger on main residential streets subdivision to Kingston have been planted in was an active campaigner brick homes were built and eucalypts along the shops, Telopea Park School the Park. for Australian federation for upper income public main perimeter roads. and Parliament House. servants. Barton provides Only one variety of tree The Park is planted with throughout the 1890s and a good example of the first was to be planted in each More private housing a wide range of native and a leader at the Constitutional phase of planned housing street or avenue. While it was completed in 1934. exotic trees, a few different Convention debates in development in Canberra, follows Weston’s plan, most Further government types of eucalypts, and the and it demonstrated the of the street planting in housing was completed uncommon Californian Adelaide in 1897. He landscape planting of 1927. Barton took place between in the late 1930’s, the big tree, native to the resigned as Prime Minister 1930 and 1949, a�er he had designs influenced by Sierras of California. Each in 1903 to become a judge The houses in Barton were le� Canberra. the earlier FCC housing side of the Park is lined designed by the Federal styles. Streets in Barton with Atlas Cedar and on the bench of the newly Capital Commission (FCC). are named a�er Flowering Plum. Planting constituted High Court A number of sites were Australian governors. commenced in the 1920s of Australia. auctioned in May 1926 and and many of the trees construction commenced NOTE: This tour will have value as mature in that year. take around hour to an examples of their species hour and half to complete, in Canberra. at a moderate pace. A complimentary tour brochure A barbecue area and (Barton – Manuka Side) children’s playground of sites in the vicinity of is located towards the this suburb is also available. centre of the Park. NT-09-2009 [barton - lake side].indd 1 side].indd lake - [barton NT-09-2009 15/9/09 6:36:32 AM 6:36:32 15/9/09 (design) Brainstorm tudio S Barton Housing Barton • epartment of the Capital Territory Collection. Territory Capital the of epartment D ibrary, L Heritage ACT the of Courtesy • (revision) Dowling Peter Dr (research) Cosgrove arol C Robert Garran Offices Garran Robert • ibrary. L Heritage ACT the of Courtesy The publishers wish to acknowledge: to wish publishers The Telopea Park Telopea • epartment of the Capital Territory Collection. Territory Capital the of epartment D ibrary, L Heritage ACT the of Courtesy www.nationaltrustact.org.au 0533 6230 02 Civic Square ACT 2608 ACT Square Civic 1144 Box PO ational Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust ational Contact: N Contact: ACT Government ACT © Copyright 2009 2009 Copyright © ACT Government to update and reprint the tour. tour. the reprint and update to Government ACT Further funding was given by the the by given was funding Further ACT Government under the ACT Heritage Grants Program. Program. Grants Heritage ACT the under Government ACT assisted through funding made available by the the by available made funding through assisted This project was originally originally was project This A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN SIDE GRIFFIN BURLEY LAKE A heritage tour of tour heritage A 8. St Mark’s Memorial Library Memorial Mark’s St 8. 7. Edmund Barton Building Barton Edmund 7. 6. Statue of Barton of Statue 6. 5. Robert Garran Offices Garran Robert 5. Kurrajong Hotel 4. 3. Brassey House Brassey 3. Gardens Belmore – BARTON Trees Street – Housing FCC – – Original Street Signs Street Original – 2. Barton Housing Precinct Housing Barton 2. Telopea Park Telopea 1. - BARTON LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN SIDE GRIFFIN BURLEY LAKE IN PLACES LISTED 1. TELOPEA PARK The design for the new Griffin’s Waratah Parkway The Kurrajong Hotel, (Return here at Federal Capital included (now Telopea Park) acted designed by FCC architect, the end of the walk). housing areas planned for as a dividing line separating John Smith Murdoch, The best place to start this different socio-economic the then government houses opened in 1926, and walk is from the Park or groups within the to the west (Barton) from was primarily used by from the car park near community, reflecting the private houses grouped parliamentarians. Brassey Telopea Park School, The suburb of social conventions of the around Eastlake (now House, one of four guest across from the Park. Car Barton is named after time. The Barton area was Kingston) shopping centre. houses designed by non- parking is accessible at a designed for occupation Tree planting in Telopea government architects, number of locations in or Sir Edmund Barton by middle income public Park commenced in 1920 opened in 1927. The around the Park. (1849–1920), Australia’s servants. It complimented under the supervision of completion of these hostels first Prime Minister, who the areas of Ainslie, where Charles Weston, the first was timed to coincide Telopea Park is named smaller weatherboard Superintendent of Parks with the opening of the a�er the Australian held office from 1901–3. houses were built for and Gardens in Canberra. provisional Parliament native plant, Telopea sp. Barton was a member of public servants working Weston adopted a pa�ern House. A�er this, Barton The plant is more widely the NSW Legislative in ‘blue-collar’ roles, and of planting deciduous trees became a desirable suburb, known as the Waratah, Blandfordia (now Forrest on minor streets, conifers due to the proximity of the although no Waratahs Assembly from 1879. He and Griffith), where larger on main residential streets subdivision to Kingston have been planted in was an active campaigner brick homes were built and eucalypts along the shops, Telopea Park School the Park. for Australian federation for upper income public main perimeter roads. and Parliament House. servants. Barton provides Only one variety of tree The Park is planted with throughout the 1890s and a good example of the first was to be planted in each More private housing a wide range of native and a leader at the Constitutional phase of planned housing street or avenue.