 Major new civic buildings included Edmund Blacket's Main Quadrangle Building at the University of Sydney completed in 1859.James Barnet was Colonial Architect from 1862 and was Sydney's most prolific Victorian architect.His buildings included The Australian Museum (1864), Customs House (1884), the General Post Office (1890), the Lands Department Building (1881 & 1893) and the Chief Secretary’s Building (1878).