Annie Wyatt House
Bishopscourt
Cadman's cottage
Clairvaux House
First Government House
Forty years of the Elsie Refuge for Women and Children
Glenhurst
Glenrock
Housing Sydney
Juniper Hall
Killarney Castle
Lindesay and Carthona
Mona and Greenoaks
Mount Adelaide
Reynolds' cottages
Roseneath Cottage
Rouse Hill Estate
Royleston
Tarmons
The Private Schools of Roseneath Cottage
Transcript: Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls the Sydney Water Board cottage of her childhood
Transcript: Mrs Linda [Lyndon] Popple talks about Horningsea Park in Liverpool
Victoria Barracks
Yarra Bay House
Conveyancing (Strata Titles) Act 1961
Housing Act 1912
17 Wylde Street Potts Point
202 Victoria Street Kings Cross
36 Terminus Street Petersham
57 Darling Point Road, Darling Point
6 Amiens Crescent Matraville
64 St Mark's Road Randwick
92 Quarry Street
Abbotsford House
Addington
Admiralty House
Aisla
Albion House
Allowah Randwick
Annandale Abbey
Annandale House
Archina Randwick
Artarmon House
Arthurleigh
Ascot Randwick
Aspinall House
Aston Lodge
Astra Hotel
Auburn Cottage
Avonmore Terrace Randwick
Babworth House
Ballamac
Balmoral House
Bangalla
Banks House
Bardia Barracks
Barrett House Randwick
Ben Linden
Benledi
Berryfield
Beulah Flats
Bishops Court Randwick
Bleak House, Balmain
Blenheim Carlingford
Blenheim House Randwick
Blues Point Tower
Bomera
Bondo guesthouse
Bongaree House
Box Hill House
Bradbury Park
Bradley Hall
Bransby's Cottage Camden
Braybrook
Brent Knowle
Brisbane Cottage
Brisbane House
Brookvale House
Brougham Lodge
Broughton Hall
Broughton House
Brush Farm House
Buhrich House I
Buhrich House II
Bulwara
Bungarribee House
Buona Vista
Burdekin House
Burlington Guesthouse
Burnham Grove
Byron Lodge
Callooa
Camden Park House
Canonbury
Canterbury Castle
Canterbury House
Cardinal's Palace
Carmel of Mary and Joseph Varroville
Carss Cottage
Carthona, Darling Point
Carthona, Kensington
Chasecote
Claverton Randwick
Cleveland House
Cliffbrook Coogee site
Cloncorrick
Clovelly House
Clovelly House Randwick
Clyde House
Clytha House
Convent of Mercy Forbes Street Darlington
Convent of the Sacred Heart Rose Bay
Coolabah
Coolinroobee
Corona and Hygeia Randwick
Country Women's Association Residential Club
Craigend
Craignathan
Cromer Cottage
Crows Nest Cottage
Crows Nest House
Curzon Hall
Dalhousie House
Dalwood Home
Darling House
Deepdene House
Delamere
Denham Court
Denistone House
Dennarque
Dobroyde House
Don Bank Museum
Dorchester House
Dower House
Dudhope
Dunbar House
Dunrath
Durham Hall
Duxford House
Eastwood House
Ecclesbourne
Edith House Randwick
Elfred House
Elizabeth Bay House
Elizabeth Farm House
Endellion Randwick
Enmore House
Erridale Randwick
Eryldene
Essex House Randwick
Etham
Everleigh House
Experiment Farm Cottage
Fairholme
Fairlight House
Fernleigh Castle
Figtree House
First Government House Parramatta
Flinton
Flowton
Froma House
Garryowen House
Gilligaloola
Ginahgulla
Gingie
Gladstone Hall
Gladswood House
Glen Ayr
Glenfield House
Glenmire
Goderich Lodge
Goldsbrough Mort Woolstore
Gordon Terrace
Grasmere Cottage
Graythwaite
Greenoaks Cottage
Greenway Flats
Greenwich House
Greycliffe House
Greystanes House
Gundimaine
Hambledon Cottage
Hampton Villa
Hargrave's House
Helenie
Henrietta Villa
Hereford House
Highroyd
Hockington
Hollowforth
Holmlea
Hooper Cottage Randwick
Horningsea Park house
Horsley House
Ilfracombe House Randwick
Ingleholme
Jackson Place cottages
Jenkins Kitchen
Judge's House Kent Street
Kalouan
Kardinia
Karitane Mothercraft Home
Kearney House
Keber Randwick
Kenneil
Kincoppal
Kingsclere
Kirribilli House
Kurraghein
Lang Syne
Leitelinna
Leura Coffee Palace
Leura House
Leuralla
Lilianfels
Lindesay
Little Bridge
Lucania
Lyndcote
Lyndham Hall
Lynwood Cottage
Lyons Terrace
Macaria
Macquarie Cottage
Macquarie Field House
Maiala
Mamre House
Maramanah
Marcellin House
Matron's Quarters
Maybanke
Menevia
Merioola
Merrenburn
Merridong
Mertonville
Meryon
Metropolitan Boys' Shelter
Mill House
Mission Australia Centre
Moore Court
Mount Errington
Mount Gilead House
Mount Orient
Myee
Narbethong
Neil Cottage
Newington House
Northcott Place
Nutcote
Ocean View Coogee
Old Manse Farm, Pitt Town
Olive Bank Villa
Oran Park House
Ormond
Osborne Homestead
Pallister
Palmer House
Pembroke Villa
Penshurst Manor
Perth House
Pine Cottage
Pratten House
Queenscliff house
Raith
Ranger's cottage
Rathven, Randwick
Rathven, Warrawee
Ravenscraig
Rawhiti
Redfern Presbytery
Reiby House
Reussdale
Richmond Villa
Roslyn Hall
Rovello
Rowerdennan
Ryedale House
Sacred Heart Monastery Kensington
Sailors' Home
Sandgate Cottage Randwick
Sara Dell
Saraville
Scott Street Cottages
Springfield Lodge
Springfield house
St Benedict's Monastery Arcadia
St Bernards
St Jude's church verger's residence Randwick
St Jude's rectory Randwick
St Magdalen's Retreat
St Matthew's rectory Windsor
St Patrick's Seminary Manly
St Scholastica's Convent
Stanmore House
Star and Garter Inn Randwick
Strickland House
Stucco Housing Cooperative
Studley Park House
Sturtholme
Susannah Place
Swan Isle
Taree Randwick
Tempe House
The Astor
The Bunyas
The Cobbles
The Gladstone
The Hermitage Castle Hill
The Hermitage Ryde
The Retreat, Ryde
The Warren
Tivoli House
Torquay House Randwick
Tower Inn
Trahlee
Travellers Rest Inn Group
Travellers' Rest Inn Parramatta
Tuckers House
Tulkiyan
Tulloona
Tusculum
Undercliff Cottage
Undercliff Terrace
Undercliffe House
Upton Grey
Varroville House
Vaucluse House
Ventnor Randwick
Veteran Hall
Villa Maria Monastery
Vista Reale
Waddell Cottage
Warrane
Waverley House
Waverton House
Ways Terrace Flats
Werrington House
Westbank
White End
Willandra
Wilona
Wivenhoe House
Women's College, University of Sydney
Wood-Martin
Woollahra House
Woollahra House II
Woollamoola House
Wybalena
Yamba cottage
Yaralla house
Yasmar house
Yengo
Ashfield Infants Home
Brush Farm Home for Boys
Salvation Army Young Women's Hostel
Abel Tasman Village Chester Hill
Balmain Shores
Bradfield Park Migrant Hostel
Cabramatta Migrant Hostel
Cardinal Stepinac Retirement Village
Dunmore Presbyterian Girl's Hostel
East Hills Migrant Workers' Hostel
Echo Farm
Kensington Street Chippendale
Villawood Migrant Hostel
World Square
Wynyard Barracks
Yaralla
Yasmar estate
Katoomba St & Clouds, Katoomba c1908-15
The YMCA Building, Pitt Street c1930
'Dobroyde', birthplace of Edward Pierson Ramsay c1900
'Hilton', Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst c1879-1882
1 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag 2009
12 O'Connell Street, the cottage at the centre of the Travellers Rest group, Parramatta 2015
14 Ginahgulla Road, Bellevue Hill 1936
14 O'Connell Street, one of the Travellers Rest group of buildings, Parramatta 2015
2-8 Smith Street, Surry Hills 1900
248 Francis-street, Glebe 1900
32 Harrington Street, the Rocks c1989
34 Lower Campbell Street, Surry Hills 1900
A native family of New South Wales sitting down on an English settler's farm c1826
A street in Paddington, Sydney c1923
A view of the Governor's house at Rose Hill in the township of Parramatta c1798
Advertisement for the sale of the lease of Sara Dell Cottage, 12 December 1837
Albion House and Albion Brewery, Surry Hills c1840
An old street in Paddington 1917
Architectural transformation in Surry Hills 1991
At Potts Point - Tamworth Mansion, Elizabeth Bay Road c1900
At the Glebe c1869-74
Barham Villa, Darlinghurst 1845
Bass Hill post office 1950
Benledi House, Glebe 2 April 2014
Bidura, 357 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 6 March 2015
Bishops Court Estate, Randwick, 1899
Bishops Court, Randwick, 1875
Blessing the Host at the Manly Convent, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament procession 9 September 1928
Boy and dog in gutter at rear of No 42 Francis-street, Glebe 1900
Boys play outside terraces in Chippendale 1959
Brislington House - Medical and Nursing Museum, Parramatta 22 October 2012
Brislington House, corner George and Marsden Streets, Parramatta c1935
Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum, Parramatta March 2014
Brislington, in front of the colonial hospital in Parramatta 1822
Bronte Court apartment building c1920-1945
Brush Farm House, Eastwood c1885
Burdekin House c1930
Burwood House on the road to Parramatta 1857
Cadman's Cottage 2008
Camden Park 1906
Camden Park, April 1906
Camelot (Horbury Hunt mansion of Mrs White, owner of the racehorse Chester), Camden c1905
Campbell Lane, Surry Hills undated
Captain Waterhouse's house, Sidney [sic], the Vineyard, about 1798
Carrara, Rose Bay 1905
Carrara, Rose Bay August 1903
Chamber plan of Clairvaux, the home of WB Dalley, c1872
Children and washing on Harrington Lane, the Rocks c1900
Children in playground at Villawood Migrant Hostel 1973
Children playing in Frog Hollow, Surry Hills 1949
Cleveland House, Surry Hills 1990
Commanders Residence, Spectacle Island, Sydney August 2015
Constable's cottage & water reservoir, Ryde Hill c1900s
Constable's cottage, Chatswood c1890
Convict Barrack Sydney N.S. Wales c1819
Cooks River cottage of the Under Sheriff, 21 October 1847
Cottage, Bantry Bay 1886
Cottage, Cook Avenue, Daceyville 1918
Cottages at Lidcombe, Auburn or Bankstown 1946
Cottages built by Robert Cooper in Elim Place, Chippendale 1989
Craignathan, Neutral Bay c1880
Crows Nest Cottage c1885
Crows Nest House c1869
Cumberland Street, Sydney 1831
Dalwood Home, Seaforth 1930s
Darlinghurst Road, top of William Street, Kings Cross 1871
Davy, who lives in a hut on Cronulla Beach, 3 July 1904
Detail from 'The town of Sydney in New South Wales' showing Māori chiefs, c1821
Detail of artist from stained glass at Fairwater, Double Bay c1882
Detail showing Evangeline in stained glass window, Fairwater, Double Bay c1882
Dixon Street, Haymarket 1900
Dome Room,Henrietta Villa, Point Piper 1835-50
Doorway of Roseneath Cottage, Parramatta 2015
Dr Bland's house in Pitt Street, with subsequent owner, Mr Butts, on horseback c1850-1867
Dr Cox's residence at the corner of Macquarie and Hunter Streets c1873
Dr Mitchell's residence, Cumberland Place, The Rocks 1842
Drinks party, Kings Cross 1970-71
Eastern suburbs residential building 2008
Elizabeth Farm House 4 June 2005
Elizabeth Heneretta (Henrietta] Villa 1820
Elsie Women's Refuge, Glebe 1974
Emu Hall, Penrith 1866
Engineer's cottage and Engine House, Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891
Engineer's cottage, Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891
Enmore House 1836-1840, described by Rolf Boldrewod
Experiment Farm 4 June 2005
Experiment Farm Cottage, Parramatta 2009
Exterior of Roseneath Cottage, Parramatta 2015
Fibro and Italianate brick housing, Liverpool 1992
Fig Tree House and wharf, Hunters Hill c1900-10
Figtree Farm, Joseph Fowles's house in Hunters Hill 1838
Figure of Hospitality at the front door of Fairwater, Double Bay.
First Government House, Sydney c1807
Fisherman's hut, Como c1905
General view of Rodd Island showing the residence and the laboratory 1888
George Robinson of Harrington St, taken in Cambridge St 1924
Gilligaloola, Normanhurst
Gloucester Street and corner of little Essex Street, Sydney 1902
Gloucester Street looking north from Essex Street, The Rocks c1900
Gloucester Street looking south from little Essex Street, The Rocks September 1901
Government House and Fort Macquarie from the Botanical Gardens 1846
Government House c1845
Government House, Parramatta 1819
Government House, Parramatta, 1805
Government House, Sydney 2008
Government House, Sydney c1809
Government Public Housing Development, Surry Hills c1960s
Government officials and resident with cockatoo at the rear of 14 May Street, Ultimo 1900
Grantham, Potts Point, undated
Greenoaks (later Bishopscourt), Darling Point 1895
Greenoaks Cottage, 2E Greenoaks Avenue, Darling Point, c1880
Greenoaks estate, Darling Point c1885
Greenoaks, Darling Point c1885
Greycliffe House in Vaucluse after the fire, 1897
Greycliffe House, Vaucluse 2009
Greycliffe House, Vaucluse, 1875-85
Ground plan of Clairvaux, the home of WB Dalley, c1872
Group of families outside a shack in the sand hills at 'Happy Valley', Brighton-le-Sands 1933
Hallstrom residence, Hallstrom Close, Fig Tree Point c1940
Happy Valley, La Perouse, early 1930s
Harrington Street, The Rocks 1901
Hebe Cottage, Riverstone c1900
Hero of Waterloo Hotel & Whalers Arms, corner Lower Fort Street and Windmill Street 1924
Holmlea, Engadine 1925
House, Avalon 1930
Houses converted to commercial premises at 370-374 Pitt Street, 1909-1913
Houses in Maroubra 31 March 1948
Interior view of Clarens, Potts Point, 1892-93
Italian Forum Leichhardt 2009
Italianate mansion, Liverpool 1992
John Palmer's residence Woolloomooloo House, c1818
Johnston Street, Annandale c1900
Johnston Street, North Annandale 1883
Julian Rose House, Turramurra 1950
Kenilworth, Annandale 2009
Kent Street, Millers Point c1873
Kingsclere Flats, Potts Point 1912
Kirribilli 2009
Kirribilli Point 2007
Landscape, Tempe House c1845
Lilianfels Katoomba 13 December 2012
Lilianfels, Katoomba 22 November 1896
Little Bridge house, Ultimo 1954
Lyons Terrace, Liverpool Street, Sydney c1880
Major Lee's hut, Vaucluse, 1857
Manager's house, Camden Park 1842
Master-planned estate, west Liverpool 1992
McElhone Place in Surry Hills, one of the slums of Sydney 1930s
McLeod family and Chief Secretary, Mr C A Kelly at opening of Housing for Aborigines scheme, Green Valley, 5 July 1963
Members of the Terry family at the rear of Eastwood House c1866
Members of the Terry family in front of Eastwood House, c1866
Men's dormitory in the Parramatta Lunatic Asylum 1861
Moorebank, near Liverpool - The Residence of Thos Moore Esqre 1819
Moving in, Kings Cross 1970-71
Namaka Cottage - Mr Kinder's late residence 1865
Near Pennant Hills Wharf - Parramatta River - My House 1854
Nos 3, 5 and 7 Gas Lane, Millers Point c1909-13
O'Connor Street verandah living, Chippendale 1934
On the Cowpasture Road - Chrisr Bunbury's 1821-23
Opening of the Housing for Aborigines scheme, Green Valley 5 July 1963
Ormonde House, residence of Robert Cooper, now occupied as an asylum for destitute children, Paddington 1853
Pacific Place Chatswood 2007
Page from letter by John Rae with drawing of his house Hilton September 1857
Panorama of Parsley Bay, Vaucluse, New South Wales c1920
Parlsey Bay c1930s
Parsley Rd, Vaucluse c1927
Peace with her dove: detail, front door, Fairwater, Double Bay
Pearce family, Blenheim House, Randwick c1885
Pillars on verandah of Roseneath, home of Mr and Mrs Arthur Gates, typify architecture of early 19th century, Parramatta 1950
Plan and elevation of Military Barracks, Wynyard Square c1822
Plans of Clairvaux, the home of WB Dalley, c1872
Point Piper near Sydney, N.S. Wales c1826
Port Jackson, vue de la maison du Gouverneur a Parramatta 1819
Potsdam, Hunters Hill 1876
Prince Consort's statue & Astor House, Macquarie St 1925
Progress of the soldier settlement scheme at Frenchs Forest in the Lone Hand, August 1918
Project home, Casula 1992
Public housing estate Redfern August 1953
Radburn-style housing 2004
Radburn-style public housing estate 2004
Radio mast and Sir Ernest Fisk's home Lucania, Wahroonga 1918
Ranger's Cottage, Parramatta 2014
Regentville, the seat of Sir John Jamison c1832
Reiby House, Newtown 1889
Reiby House, Newtown c1923
Residence of Ah Loon, off Queen's Place, Sydney, November 1875
Residence of Edward Riley Esq, Wooloomooloo 1825
Residence of George Suttor, view showing the first Vineyard and orangery, Baulkham Hills 1855
Residences, 82-84 Derwent Street, Glebe c1872
Reverend Arthur Wellesley Pain and members of his family at the Parsonage, Cobbitty c1877
Reynolds' Cottages at the Rocks c1989
Rose Seidler House Wahroonga 1951
Rosebank, Woolloomooloo, the residence of James Laidley 1840
Roseneath Cottage, Parramatta 2015
Rouse Hill garden, Rouse Hill, New South Wales, September 1997
Sacred Heart Monastery, Roma Avenue, Kensington 29 November 2011
Salter's farm, or Dairy Cottage, Parramatta 2014
Salter's farm, or Dairy Cottage, on the left and Ranger's Cottage on the right, Parramatta 2014
Sans Souci, June 26 1870
Sara Dell c1909
Sara Dell, Petersham c1909
Shattered wall of a house in the eastern suburbs after Japanese Shelling of Sydney 1942
Sheedy's Castle, Balmoral Beach 1889
Sketch at Mrs Darling's Point, near Sydney 1835
Sketch, proposed house at Pymble c1925
Slums, Little Chambers Street, Ultimo c1906
South end of Manly Beach, showing the shark tower, Manly Surf Pavilion and block of flats c1939
Spring: detail from Seasons window at Arlington, Croydon
Squalid houses in Batson's Lane 1900
Stanmore House, Enmore c1900
Statue of Captain Cook standing in front of Captain Thomas Watson's home at Randwick c1880
Street of Californian Bungalows c1925-1950
Strickland Buildings in Balfour Street, Chippendale 2000
Strickland House, Vaucluse 2009
Suburban houses in Sydney's west 2007
Surry Hills terraces at 73-77 Foveaux Street to be demolished 1913
Tarmons, Woolloomooloo, residence of Sir Maurice O'Connell 1845
Tempe - Cooks River, January 22 1838
Tempe House, Cooks River c1845
Tempe on the Cooks River 1840s
Terrace houses, Paddington 2004
Terraces in Waine Street, Surry Hills c1910
Terraces on Irving Street, Chippendale 1908
The Astor Flats, Macquarie Street 1923
The Burdekin House, Macquarie Street, Sydney 1914
The Dairy and Ranger's Cottage, Parramatta Park 2009
The Glebe, our house 1870
The Judge's House, 531 Kent Street 1983
The Seasons, stained glass window at Gladswood House, Double Bay c1875
The Sugar Mill, Cooks River 2005
The Travellers Rest building on the corner of Hunter and O'Connell Streets, Parramatta 2015
The Travellers Rest group of buildings on O'Connell Street, Parramatta 2015
The Travellers' Rest group of buildings on the corner of O'Connell and Hunter Streets, Parramatta 2015
The Warren, Cooks River residence of the Hon Thomas Holt March 1870
The Warren: workmen's homes c1919
The eastern side of Camden Park, April 1906
The entrance of Port Jackson, and part of the town of Sydney, New South Wales c1821
The residence of DCG Laidley - Wooloomooloo, 1831-1836
Toxteth, taken from the roof of Strathmore Glebe c1880
Tricketts, 270 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 6 March 2015
Ultimo Place with Cockle Bay c1821-1823
Ultimo skyline 1961
Unidentified group in front of Clarens, Potts Point, 1858-69
Varuna c2012
Ventnor, the Kiss family home, September 1884
Verandah of Roseneath Cottage, Parramatta 2015
Victoria Barracks, Paddington 1840s
Victoria Barracks, Paddington 1871
View from 'Hilton', residence of John Rae, Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst c1879-82
View from Flagstaff Hill, Sydney c1844
View from the lounge windows of apartment in The Astor 1938
View north along Macquarie Street, Sydney 1859
View of Camden Park from the fields April 1906
View of Clarens in Potts Point taken from left corner of top division of first ballustrade, 1892-93
View of Georges River near Liverpool New South Wales, the property of G Johnston Esqre 1819
View of Governor's House, Rosehill, Parramatta c1798
View of Lyons' Terrace Hyde Park Sydney NSW 1849
View of Tempe on Cooks River 1845
View of the Government House Parramatta from the bridge over the river 1833
View of the Government Hut at Cowpastures 1804
View of the governor's house at Sydney in Port Jackson New South Wales Jan'y 1791
View over Blues Point and McMahon's Point c1900
Viola Terrace, Riley Street Surry Hills undated
Wanstead; Stephen Marsh Esq, April 30 1853
Waratahs in staircase window at St Cloud, Burwood
Watsons Bay 1902
Western Sydney mansions 2006
William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home during the Depression 28 September 1934
Wolomoloo (Springfield House) 1832
Woodford House, Woodford c1920
Woollahra House II, Point Piper, 1900-29
Woolloomooloo Bay 2008
Woolloomooloo Bay and Elizabeth Bay 2005
Woolloomooloo finger wharf and Potts Point 2007
Yaralla, Concord West 2006
Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay 30 July 2007
`Hilton', Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, residence of John Rae c1879-1882
harmony (Buhrich House series 3), Castlecrag October 2009
Sydney streets montage 2007
Michael Mundine on the Aboriginal Housing Company 2009
Mrs Popple talks about Horningsea Park in Liverpool, interviewed in 1986
Broader Subjects
Annie Wyatt, a founder of the National Trust (NSW), lived here from 1926, and the unofficial first meeting of the trust was held in the house in 1945.
Bishopscourt, which has served as the residence of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney since 1911, is one of the finest houses in Darling Point, and one of the best Gothic picturesque houses in Australia.
Brislington is Parramatta's oldest existing dwelling house and stands on land once used by the Darug-speaking Burramatta people. Initially a family residence, Brislington was a medical practice for almost a hundred years, followed by the Parramatta District Hospital's Nurses' Home up until the 1970s. Since 1983 the building has been home to the Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum.
Possibly designed by Francis Greenway, Cadman's cottage housed John Cadman, government coxswain, from 1827 until 1845. It was subsequently used by the Water Police and the Sydney Sailors' Home, and is now a museum.
By the early twentieth century many of Sydney's old estates were subdivided. Their large grounds were too expensive to maintain and as Sydney expanded, land became a premium. Clairvaux House, a grand Victorian house, was built on land purchased from the Wentworth Estate c 1871. A domestic residence until the early twentieth century, the house underwent three subdivisions before being demolished in 1929.
A two-storey brick house, Government House was the most impressive building in the early colony. It was not well-built however, and required frequent repairs. Plans to replace it were first suggested in 1817, but the new Government House was not completed until 1845.
Elsie Refuge, in Glebe, is an icon of Sydney feminism and Australian domestic violence services. Established in 1974 by Women's Liberation, it was the first refuge for women and children organised on feminist principles and was pivotal to the recognition of the social problem of domestic violence. In 2014, after changes to government funding arrangements, Elsie is no longer independently-run, but the story of the foundation of this pioneering service is a vital part of the history of Glebe, of Sydney, and of Australian feminism.
Glenhurst was built on the Glenhurst Estate in Darling Point. It was demolished in 1959 or 1960 and replaced by Glenhurst Gardens apartment building.
Glenrock, the home of the Smith and Whistler Smith families from the 1840s, was replaced by a later building that is, along with Fiona, now part of Ascham.
From a modest cottage on Sydney Cove to an elaborate sandstone structure in Gothic Revival style, Government House, now in The Domain, has served as both home and host to official life in Sydney.
From harbourside mansion to fringe estate, housing in Sydney provides indispensable insights into the city's social makeup, economic foundations and cultural identity.
Built on the ridge at Paddington, with views to the harbour and Botany Bay, Juniper Hall was the home of wealthy distiller and ex-convict Robert Cooper, and his large family. It was later used as a school, public building and court, and later subdivided into flats, before the National Trust of Australia (NSW) bought and restored it.
Opened by Governor Davidson in 1918, Killarney castle at Gordon was built from local stone for Thomas Taylor to replicate an Irish castle.
Lindesay, built between 1834 and 1836 for Colonial Treasure Campbell Drummond Riddell, is the oldest surviving residence in Darling Point. It was the home of Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell in 1841 while he built Carthona. The houses have since passed through the hands of a number of notable Darling Point residents and although the grounds of both have been subdivided, remain significant elements of the harbourside landscape.
Mona at Darling Point was built as a regency villa in 1841. It has been converted to an apartment building. Greenoaks, built from 1846 and developed into a gothic revival mansion in the 1860s, was renamed Bishopscourt after it was purchased by the Anglican Church in 1910.
Mount Adelaide, one of the early residences in Darling Point, was demolished in 1912. Its site is now occupied by Babworth House.
Built by convict labour in 1829, Reynolds' cottages have been used for many different purposes as the city around them changed and grew.
Roseneath, an elegant Colonial Georgian style residence, was built between 1835 and 1837 as a family home for Scottish emigrant, Janet Templeton and her children. Overlooking the northern section of Parramatta Park (formerly Governor's Domain), the building housed several private schools in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Built on Dharug land, Rouse Hill Estate was established in the 1810s, and held by the same family until 1993. Extensive gardens and agricultural buildings surround the house, which was added to over the years, though the original land was sold off. The house and gardens remain, now preserved by the Historic Houses Trust as a museum.
Royleston, like the nearby girls' institution, Bidura, served as a depot for children in the New South Wales Government child welfare system from 1922 until 1983 providing temporary accommodation for children in transit between children's court hearings, foster care and institutions. For many members of the Stolen Generations and Forgotten Australians, it was a harsh and loveless place.
Built for Sir Maurice O'Connell, Commander of Forces for NSW, in 1838, Tarmons was the scene of society balls and occasions before it was bought in 1855 by the Sisters of Charity as a convent and hospital, becoming the headquarters for the order in Sydney. It was demolished in the 1960s.
Built between 1835 and 1837 as a private family residence, Roseneath Cottage in Parramatta became home to several private schools in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including: Mr Baly's Boarding Establishment for Young Gentlemen; Mrs Mary W M'Ghie's Educational Establishment, a 'first-class boarding school for young ladies'; and St Ronan's, a 'High Class Day and Boarding School for Girls', the bud from which Tara Anglican School for Girls bloomed.
Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick was born in 1899. She was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project. Here she recalls the circumstances of her birth and the remote Sydney Water Board cottage of her childhood.
Mrs Linda [Lyndon] Popple was born in 1901 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' She moved to Liverpool in 1914 from the alpine town of Cooma in New South Wales. She talks here about a grand historical residence in Liverpool: Horningsea Park.
Varuna, in Katoomba, was the home of Eleanor and Eric Dark. In 1989, with one of the most generous individual philanthropic gestures in Australia's literary history, their son Mick Dark gave the house and land to the Eleanor Dark Foundation so it could be used as a place for writers to work, and to discuss ideas around the fireplace, as it had been in his parents' time.
Victoria Barracks, on what is now Oxford Street in Paddington, has been continuously occupied by military personnel since it was built in 1841. It is an outstanding example of colonial military architecture.
One of Sydney's grandest estates, and a centre of high society into the 1920s, Yaralla was the home of Thomas and Eadith Walker, noted philanthropists.
Yarra Bay House, originally built at La Perouse as a cable station, served as a NSW Government children's home from around 1917 until the 1980s. Since 1984 it has been owned by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council and has been the hub of the La Perouse Aboriginal community.
Legislation to facilitate the subdivision of land into lots by registering a strata thereby allowing the lots to be leased or sold individually.
Legislation to provide for the purchase of lands and construction and maintenance of buildings and works, by the Housing Board which this Act also established.
Residence and commercial space constructed about 1838 to cope with the housing shortage in the growing colony.
Built as a home it has since been converted to office accommodation for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
One of Sydney's earliest circular apartment buildings, built in the immediate postwar period.
Georgian style terrace house that gained notoriety when its owner Juanita Nielsen disappeared whilst campaigning to save the street from demolition.
A Victorian house which has a large mural in the ground floor front room depicting people and events associated with Australia's involvement in the Sudan War in 1885.
Gothic Revival sandstone residence which became a boys preparatory school from 1876 to 1906 before restoration as a private dwelling.
Sole surviving cottage of Matraville Soldier's Settlement Garden Village of over ninety houses constructed between 1918-1926 for returned soldiers from World War I. It was renovated as a community centre in 1989.
Single storey gentleman's residence built for Edward H Alcock a warehouseman.
Colonial cottage dating from the 1860s that is a rare reminder that sandstone was not only exported to build Sydney's monuments, but was used to house the workers who quarried it.
Two-storey Victorian mansion of stuccoed and painted stone with two-storey verandahs on the front and most of the two sides. It retains excellent interior plaster decorations and ceilings and cedar detailing. It became offices for Nestles between 1917 and 1991 before being refurbished as a family home.
Historic house built on one of the early grants in the Ryde area, and still standing in 2010.
Large stone mansion with slate hipped-gable roof of two storeys with two storey verandah. It became home to a succession of prominent Colonial administrators and businessmen, then became an Official Residence for the Royal Naval Commanders then Australian Governors General.
Marie Byles's house and garden in Cheltenham, donated by her to the National Trust in 1970.
Federation Arts and Crafts style house which has much of its period detailing intact.
Mansion with twelve foot wide verandahs on the corner of Albion and Mary streets which formed the centrepiece of the Albion Estate. The estate was subdivided in 1873.
Large two storey Italianate villa with verandah and balcony that was built for ironmonger Justus Scharffe.
Large house in Fairlight, built by George Thornton, who had been mayor of Sydney.
Harold Cazneaux's house and garden in Roseville
House designed and built c1888 by Norman Selfe, with a tower for astronomy.
Sandstone mansion built as a gentleman's residence with gables and tower and reconfigured into flats for working-class families in the 1920s. The 50-room house was bought by Dr Geoffrey Davis in 1959 who held it for 50 years before it was purchased and totally restored by Michael Hogan and Ann Sherry as a family home.
House built for George and Esther Johnston on their grant near the present intersection of Parramatta Road and Johnston Street.
Georgian Revival cottage in Gordon, built in 1926.
Two-storey Federation house originally owned and occupied by Captain A J Clark and his wife. It was then sold to Clarice E P Barwick in 1908 who sold it to Patrick Ryan in 1910. Archibald Shaw then purchased the property and made radio equipment for Douglas Mawson's expedition in a shed, now demolished, located at the rear of the property. The property was then sold to the Commonwealth Government in 1916 and it was used to house Royal Australian Air Force engineers.
Queen Anne style house at 26 Froggatt Crescent Croydon.
House built by William Gore on part of an early land grant in Artarmon. The first house, a cottage built in 1820 by Gore, was replaced in 1869 by Richard Hayes Hartnett by a grander residence. The house was demolished in 1939.
House at 166 Albion Street which was modified and enlarged to accommodate the Argyle school.
Two-storey late Victorian mansion in Randwick which was built by Philip Nicolle who lived there with his family. The house was then occupied by William Thow and then Archibald Shaw. Shaw experimented with wireless transmissions and built a large factory at the rear of the mansion, which has since been demolished. 'Archina' on Avoca Street also formed part of the site and in 1917 it was acquired by the Commonwealth Government for use by the Royal Australian Navy. From 1924, the Royal Australian Air Force set up an experimental station on the land. Ascot was used as a design office and residence for Lawrence Wackett and Archina housed the engineers. In 1932, it was converted to accommodation for Army officers and their families.
Built in 1883 for Joshua Frey Josephson who named it St Killian's, the construction included some elements like a staircase and marble hall tiles from his former home Enmore House. It was converted to a boarding school house when Scots College moved to Bellevue Hill in 1895 and renamed after Arthur Aspinall, the school's first principal.
Stone and slate house constructed on a leasehold which had formed part of the Point Piper estate.
Two-storey Colonial Georgian style sandstone house built on the corner of Stanley and Avoca Streets, Randwick for the merchant and alderman, John Watkins. It was later occupied by Randwick's mayor, Walter Bradley, and then used as a girls' school in the 1890s. It was acquired by Little Sisters of the Poor and then finally the Emanuel School.
Hotel building in Bondi repurposed as housing.
Mansion built on Bourke Street Surry Hills with extensive gardens and summerhouse.
Home built in Bangalla Street Warrawee in a mix of Georgian Revival and Mediterranean styles which was popular before World War II, as home for Preston L. Gowing of Gowings department stores.
Group of nine, three storey, Victorian Italianate terrace houses on a site originally part of an 1864 land grant to the Church of England. In 1905 the properties were sold to the estate of Bernhardt Otto Holtermann and between 1903-8 Lotaville Private School was conducted at No 34 Avonmore which is now a boutique hotel.
Federation Arts and Craft style home with 24 bedrooms and grand ballroom which was once owned by St Vincent's Hospital before restoration in 1998 to luxury apartments. It was built for Sir Samuel Hordern and designed by architectural firm Morrow and De Putron.
Small sandstone cottage built for the Baker family in the 1850s or 1860s. Originally part of a larger house surrounded by orchards, it is now part of the Lane Cove National Park. In the 1890s the building was home to sculptor Hans Andra, who renamed the building 'Carlsruhe'.
House at 39 Arcadia Street Coogee which operated as an hotel and boarding house from October 1878 until the 1910s. It has since been restored as private home.
Guest house established at Katoomba in the 1890s for wealthy travellers to the Blue Mountains.
Architect-designed house in Warrawee.
House built by Simeon Lord at Botany for his large family and to allow him full supervision of the mills and other industries he owned in the area.
Barracks which were once part of Ingelburn Army Camp. They were purpose built to accommodate soldiers being trained for World War II and were named for the battalion's first battle at Bardia in North Africa.
Darlinghurst villa designed by John Verge for Edward Deas Thomson. Purchased by SCEGGS Daringhurst in 1901 and remains as part of the school.
The home of cinema pioneers Franklyn and Mabel Barrett, who developed and edited 15 silent pictures in their home between 1919 and 1926. The house was bequeathed to Randwick City Council by Harrie Barrett and was developed as a 'Sustainable Demonstration House'.
Colonial mansion on Glebe Point of late Victorian Italianate design. It was only used as a home until 1925 when a timber mill was operated from and around the site. When Blackwattle Bay Park was created by landfill in the 1970s only the house was retained due to community lobbying and currently operates as a cafe and community centre.
Federation cottage in Narellan built by George Blackmore in 1919.
Grand Victorian mansion on the corner of Glebe Point and Wigram Roads in Glebe, built for timber merchant Alexander Kethel. It was later converted to a homeopathic hospital and general community hospital. It is now owned by the City of Sydney and houses the Glebe branch of the public library and other community groups. The adjacent park was the site of the Sydney Hospital for Sick Children, founded in 1880. This was renamed the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in 1904 and moved to Camperdown in 1907. The hospital building was also used by the homeopathic hospital before it was razed for the park in 1968.
Two storey Gothic residence at 8 Wylde Street Potts Point.
Apartment block in the Federation Romanesque style constructed at 1 Waruda Street Kirribilli early in the twentieth century by Emily White, the widow of James White, MLC.
Two storey Victorian house with a former ballroom and large formal garden which was once one among many grand estates along Glebe Point road. From the 1920s the house was used as a girls' home and children's court whilst a remand centre was constructed at the rear in 1980 to facilitate the operation of Bidura Children's Court. It was sold for residential development in 2014.
House built by convict labour on Cockatoo Island, which served as a residence for a succession of superintendents and shipyard managers.
A grand mansion in Randwick that was the official residence of the Anglican Bishop of Sydney. Constructed in 1859 for a total of 7,000 pounds, it was built for Bishop Frederic Barker. The official residence was moved to Bishopscourt, Darling Point in 1911 and the mansion was sold to the Good Samaritan order of Catholic nuns to operate as a convent until it was destroyed by fire in 1924. From the 1890s, the name Bishopscourt was used to describe the area and subsequent subdivisions of the estate.
Gothic Revival style mansion at the core of a large villa estate with a magnificent garden. Built of sandstone around an existing cottage it was substantially enlarged to include a chapel and grand staircase with stained glass windows. It has been home of Sydney's Anglican Archbishops since 1911.
Sandstone house in Balmain built in 1850 by Samuel Crook on land overlooking Johnston's Bay, now the site of White Bay Container Facility. The property was named Bleak House by Crook after the book by Dickens due to lengthy legal settlements concerning the land. The house had fallen into disrepair and been demolished by 1902.
House of Frederick Cox, local politician, butcher and orchardist, in Carlingford.
The sandstone and cedar two storey house was built by Simeon Pearce on 1.6 hectares of land overlooking what is today Randwick Racecourse. The first Anglican church service was held at Blenheim House during Pearce's residency and it was also allegedly the site for the last foxhunt in Sydney. It was purchased by Randwick Council in 1984 and in 1989, a 'Friends of Blenheim House' group formed to help aid its restoration. The group leased the building from the council for 25 years in 1993.
Apartment block which was the only element of a high density development plan for the area which was built. Often criticised, it is now listed on the North Sydney heritage register. It contains 144 apartments over 25 levels and is 83 metres high.
Marine villa of two storeys at Potts Point built to take advantage of the harbour views. It was acquired by the government in 1910 and used as a boarding house until 1941 when it was acquired by the Navy. It reverted to private ownership in 2001 and has now been converted to 3 apartments.
Guesthouse in Parramatta run by Angèle Burgeus (mother of the painter, Lloyd Rees) and her daughter Amy during the 1920s.
House in the Fairview estate, Fairlight. Fairlight demolished in 1939
Spanish Mission style mansion on three levels built for Frank Albert, the sheet music millionaire. The rendered masonry with Spanish style perforated screens, palms and splashing fountains was a backdrop for the extravagant lifestyle of the wealthy merchant class of the 1920s.
House built by the Terry family of Box Hill.
Two storey house built on the estate of the same name near Campbelltown.
Single-storey Colonial Georgian house in Paddington, built for Thomas Broughton, merchant, mayor and member of the first Legislative Assembly, since demolished. Part of the sandstone boundary wall of the property still exists in Bennetts Grove Road.
One of the oldest surviving Georgian houses in Camden.
House built at Middle Harbour by George Rignold after 1892 and named for his first wife Marie Braybrooke Henderson. It was demolished in 1936.
Federation Arts and Crafts style gentleman's residence built at a cost of 10,000 pounds for Major J H Evans-Booker.
First house at Milsons Point, built by James Milson in the early 1820s and burnt in a bushfire in 1826.
Stone house built by James Milson after the bushfire of 1826 had destroyed his earlier cottage. Demolished to make way for Northern roadworks for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, resumption order 1923
Two storey Georgian dwelling constructed for ex-convict John Hodges using money won in a card game at the nearby Woolpack Inn. It now houses the Medical and Nursing museum.
House begun by Mortimer Lewis but completed by Robert Lowe in an unusual Gothic Italianate style. Its position in a picturesque valley was enhanced by extensive gardens attributed to Georgiana Lowe. It is listed on the Register of the National Estate and privately leased.
Stone house built by William Francis Parker in Brookvale in 1879.
Stone house built by the Malcolm family in Brookvale in 1884.
House constructed on a land grant given to James Dowling in 1828 on Woolloomooloo Hill near the crossroads that were to become Kings Cross.
Two storey Regency residence which was modified several times during the 1880s to facilitate its use as a psychiatric clinic.
Residential building which was converted from a warehouse constructed for ironmonger John Keep and Son at the beginning of the twentieth century. It once housed rifles, cutlery, anvils, horse shoes and all manner of ironmongery for the building trade with easy access from King, Kent or Clarence streets.
Georgian mansion constructed 1820 by Gregory Blaxland on his Brush Farm Estate in the Ryde area.
First Modernist house designed for his family by Hugh Buhrich using a range of materials that were cheaply available.
Significant Modernist house which demonstrates strong sculptural elements both internally and externally.
Home constructed in Jones Street Ultimo in the 1860s for the younger John Harris.
Colonial homestead built on the Bungarribee estate in the Prospect area in 1827 by John Campbell. It was demolished in 1957.
Home built on land granted to Samuel Augustus Perry on Woolloomooloo Hill.
Nineteenth-century Sydney's 'finest private residence' in Macquarie Street. Built by merchant Thomas Burdekin in 1842, its demolition in 1933 was an early catalyst for the heritage movement.
Guest house established in Katoomba for wealthy travellers in the 1890s.
Victorian-style house built by Samuel Wheeler in Cawdor.
Single storey stone house in Randwick on the corner of Belmore Road and Avoca Street that was built for musician Isaac Nathan in 1853 and named for his English friend and collaborator, Lord Byron. The house was demolished in 1912 after the death of then owner James Robertson and the estate was subdivided. By 1911, a different house in Byron Street, Coogee, built in the 1870s, had also been named Byron Lodge.
One of the oldest surviving houses in Sydney, built for the government coxswain and his family to live in.
Federation Queen Anne style house built for Charles B Fairfax.
Grand gentleman's residence in Victorian Rustic style in Bennett Avenue at Darling Point.
Mansion designed by John Verge for the Macarthur family on their estate at Camden.
House in Kirkham near Camden designed by John Horbury Hunt for James White. Still a private residence it has featured in various television programs and a film.
Grand mansion built in the Gothic style for Harry Rickards in 1904 which incorporated some of the 1840s cottage Lansdowne which had originally occupied the site on the tip of Darling Point. Later used as a hospital it was demolished in 1983 and the site became McKell Park.
Group house that became part of lesbian culture in Sydney in the 1970s.
Two storey rustic Gothic mansion with extensive gardens which was once situated between Alison and Leith streets Ashfield.
House designed by Sheering and Hennessy to be a church residence as part of St Patrick's Seminary, Manly.
Carmelite convent established in 1987 after the merger of the Dulwich Hill convent and the Parkes convent of the order.
House of William Carss and family, which is one of the oldest properties in the district.
Large Gothic Revival mansion built in sandstone which sits on a small harbour promontory containing many mature trees.
Single-storey Federation style dwelling at 85 Todman Avenue Kensington which maintains many original features as it was in the ownership of one family for over 70 years from its construction about 1910.
Home built by John Stanton Cook for his family at 75 Ku-ring-gai Avenue Turramurra in 1907. It became a convalescent hospital in 1915.
Home built in the 1890s in Hastings Avenue Warrawee.
Gentleman's mansion of two storeys of brick and stone which has now been converted to flats.
House on the ridge at Vaucluse overlooking Rose Bay. The house still existed in 1910 when much of the land around it was subdivided.
Residence built by Joseph Hyde Potts in Potts Point. During James Martin's ownership, its surrounding garden was famed as one of the 'most architecturally elaborate gardens constructed in Australia'. The gardens were developed in 1853-68 and the novelist Anthony Trollope described the 'garden falling down to the sea' as a 'fairyland'. Its monument of Lysicrates was later moved to the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. The property was acquired by the Royal Australian Navy in 1941 and then subsequently destroyed, however, elements of the original garden have survived. The navy base HMAS Kuttabul now stands on the site, located adjacent to the Garden Island dockyard.
Grand Victorian residence, part of two attached houses, built in the 1890s which form part of the elegant streetscape in St Mark's Road.
Two storey stucco gentleman's residence, built in brick on stone foundations. Of colonial Georgian style, its design is attributed to Francis Greenway. It was later used as a school, laundry, boarding house and government offices, and as a convent and hospital. It remains significant as one of the oldest houses in Sydney.
House at Putney built for John Bayley Darvall, and later owned by the Blaxland family.
Mansion in Coogee famed for its location on the original estate of John Thompson, Mayor of Randwick. The original mansion on Thompson's estate is believed to have been built during the 1860s. In 1881 the estate was subdivided in seven sections and the main mansion was sold in 1887. However, after Denison Miller occupied the mansion rent free from 1905, he purchased the entire estate for 8,000 pounds in 1911 and demolished the original stone buildings. In 1921, he then built the Federation, Free Classical style mansion. It was eventually sold to the federal government and used as a school of tropical medicine by the Army Reserve during World War II. It was demolished in 1976 to make way for housing development.
Victorian Free Gothic style house was built for the Hon. George Simpson. Subsequently converted to four strata apartments.
Grand home erected c 1828 in the north eastern corner of what is now Robertson Park, Watsons Bay.
Italianate gentlemen's residence built in a line on Avoca Street Randwick.
Two storey Victorian Filigree style residence built by timber merchant George Hudson for his son which later became the first Rachel Forster Hospital building.
Old Colonial Regency style house of two storeys with basement on to Downshire Street and former coach house built in 1845 which is now a garage. The house demonstrates the social roles of the day with kitchen and servant's quarters in the basement whilst the entrance floor housed the receptions rooms and the second storey the family accommodation.
Early house in Neutral Bay occupied by architect Walter Liberty Vernon.
Roman Catholic convent in Forbes Street, Darlington
Convent designed by John Horbury Hunt and built between 1897 and 1900 for the Society of the Sacred Heart. Now part of Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart.
Two storey Victorian house built about 1880 and still extant at 45 Greenwich Road Greenwich.
Residence of the Federation style on Sydney's upper north shore.
Pair of semi-detached mansions designed in the late Victoria style located on Avoca Street, Randwick. The site of Corona and Hygeia is part of an original land grant purchased in 1853 by Judge Thomas Callaghan. His widow, Elizabeth and daughter Mary Milford Auber Jones, built the two large attached houses. From 1894-97 only one of the houses was occupied and in 1895-98 it was used as a house and post office. In 1925 Hygeia was listed as flats and in November 1984 the property was sold at auction. A Permanent Conservation Order was made over the property on 22 January 1988 and it was transferred to the State Heritage Register in 1999. The building is currently a boutique hotel.
Residential building for members of the Association to provide accommodation and services whilst visiting Sydney.
Darlinghurst villa designed and built by Surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell.
House constructed in Hayes Street Neutral Bay which was demolished in 1968.
Two storey sandstone home which has also served as state governor's residence and from 1917 was the nucleus of the new Cranbrook School.
Residential building, part of the Camden Dairy Company, owned and occupied by the Lavercombe family until 2000.
Nineteenth century home near Dee Why which gave its name to the area now known as Cromer
Cottage built by Edward Wollstonecraft in 1821 from which the suburb takes its name.
House built by Alexander Berry in the 1840s on his Crows Nest Estate. From the 1890s the surrounding land was subdivided and sold and the house was demolished in 1933. Its site is now occupied by North Sydney Demonstration School.
Large mansion in Romanesque style at Marsfield which was converted to a seminary and now operates as a function centre.
House built on Waratah Street, Dobroyd Point. It was demolished in 1930 and Dobroyd Point Public School was built on the site.
House built by Theodore Gurney and later sold to AE Dalwood who donated it to the Food for Babies Fund. It was later used as a children's home and hospital.
House built by Thomas Shepherd on City Road Darlington near his Darling nursery.
Californian bungalow-style house in Killara.
House built for WH McCarthy between Glenmore Road and Glen Street Paddington.
Gothic house on Delamere estate which was originally owned by Thomas Barker. It was described in an 1859 newspaper article as having a 'verandah, entrance hall, dining and drawing rooms, library, and five bedrooms'. The house was demolished for an apartment block.
Significant early country house built for Captain Richard Brooks on land granted to Judge-Advocate Richard Atkins. The rear buildings predate the John Verge designed two storey house.
Built by Richard Rouse Terry in 1872 and now part of Ryde Hospital.
The most substantial of the founding eight residences at Mount Wilson and one of the two built of stone.
House built for David and Sarah Ramsay, on Dobroyde estate in present-day Haberfield.
Castle Hill house where writer Patrick White and his partner Manoly Lascaris farmed and bred dogs from 1948-64.
A heritage-listed former residence and now house museum at 6 Napier Street, North Sydney. It was built from 1853 to 1858 for Edward Wollstonecraft. It is also known as St. Leonard's Cottage. The property is now owned by North Sydney Council.
Art Deco style building at 149 Macquarie Street, Sydney. The red texture brick building comprises professional offices and residential apartments.
Victorian Gothic Revival sandstone manor built for the widow of Thomas Smith (1795-1842). The property is now part of Ascham School campus.
House built in Putney in the 1880s as 'Lunnhilda', and renamed by its later owner, William Scrymgeour.
House built at Robertson Bay by Richard Siddon which was used as a hotel and Town Hall and is today used for weddings and private events.
Heritage listed home first built on the corner of Old South Head and Bellevue roads Bellevue Hill in the 1860s and dismantled and reassembled in Castle Hill in 1939 by Captain De Groot.
Residence built for butcher and politician George Hill at 207 Albion Street, Surry Hills, now used as office accommodation.
House built on the 7 acre Paddington land grant of John Gurner about 1843. It has now been demolished.
Victorian cottage in Eastwood built by William Rutledge in 1840, now owned by the Marist Brothers.
Gothic Revival style mansion at Double Bay. Enlarged after 1854 including the addition of a battlement watchtower it was used as a boarding house in the 1960s and now provides hospital residential accommodation.
Two-storey Victorian house on Cuthill Street, Randwick.
House constructed on a four acre land grant made in 1831 in Glenmore Road Paddington.
Greek Revival villa considered the finest in the colony. It is constructed of Marulan sandstone and Australian cedar and blackbutt and is perfectly aligned to the position of the sunrise at the winter solstice so that the rising sun bisects the house from front to rear doors. Its garden was once known internationally for its collection of rare species though after subdivision only the grotto remains.
House built for John and Elizabeth Macarthur on their estate at Parramatta, and later enlarged into a comfortable country house, which is now a house museum run by Sydney Living Museums.
Nineteenth century cottage owned by the Anglican church which was converted for use as a refuge for women.
Two storey gentleman's residence constructed for TJ Oliver during the Victorian boom of the 1880s.
House designed by John Verge and built in 1835 for Captain Sylvester Browne, a master mariner with the East India Company. Browne named it after a sugar plantation in Barbados, in the West Indies, that was owned by his business associate James Cavan, a merchant and slave owner. Cavan's estate was named after Enmore in Somerset, England.
Single storey Victorian residence built for Arthur McMinn.
Gordon house and garden designed by William Hardy Wilson in the Colonial Revival style.
Grand home built on 40 acres at Double Bay which replaced an older house called The Willows. Renowned for its social life it remained a family home until demolished in 1920 for redevelopment.
House built by Mary and John Holden in the 1840s just north of Vine Street in the area now known as The Block.
House in Birchgrove where Maybanke Selfe (later Anderson) lived as a girl.
Georgian Colonial house set in a small domestic garden of mature trees.
Single storey homestead at Rooty Hill with surrounding verandahs on all sides built for the George Trotter Evans and family after 1882. It is now part of St Agnes Catholic High School.
Classic Georgian style sandstone two storey house erected on the harbour foreshore at Fairlight.
Two-storey Victorian Filigree style freestanding villa of painted English bond brickwork and balcony with cast iron columns. Built for William Clark who made his fortune in the Newcastle coalfields.
Home at 560 New South Head Road Double Bay built for Francis Joseph in 1881.
Victorian Romanesque mansion in Rose Bay with 'Norman' battlements and castellated towers. It was built in 1892 and replaced the small stone cottage built on the site in 1874 by CW Roberts.
Retreat comprising two sandstone cottages which were combined and a landmark tower added in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It remains a prominent feature of the waterfront at Hunters Hill.
Grand residence built for Edward Knox at Darling Point.
Residence for the first nine Governors of NSW, which was the first major building in the colony. The first permanent building in the colony, it had two storeys built of bricks and stone comprising six rooms, two cellars and a rear staircase. In front of the house was a garden where many imported plant species were grown and the first orchard planted. The Museum of Sydney, on the corner of Bridge and Phillip Streets, was built on its site.
Single storey lath and plaster cottage which deteriorated rapidly over a decade and was replaced further along the ridge above the township.
Three storey home built on land granted to Roger Therry in 1832 which became part of the Royal Hospital for Women.
House in North Turramurra built in 1895 for Eccleston du Faur, which is now the administration block for Lady Davidson Hospital.
House built by James Neale in the 1860s.
Grand Victorian Regency stone residence which survives with some alterations and is now used as a writers' centre.
Converted from hotel to apartments in the 1990s, the site was formerly occupied by Cheverells. This stately home was converted to flats in the 1940s before being taken over by the American Red Cross for an officer's club during World War II.
House in Normanhurst, designed by Norman Selfe for his family in the early 1890s, which is still a local landmark.
Victorian Free Gothic brick and stone house which now forms part of Scots College.
Single storey brick house with hipped and gabled roof of terracotta tiles designed in the Federation Queen Anne style.
House built by William Starkey in 1870 in Ewart Street, Dulwich Hill.
House built on part of the original Point Piper Estate for Samuel Deane Gordon in 1860.
House built around 1860 which housed a girls' school between 1905 and 1912 when the estate was subdivided and the house demolished.
Residence constructed for the meat supplier, Thomas Field. Field gave it to the Australian Red Cross on condition that it be used for philanthropic or charitable purposes. The Red Cross operated a convalescent home there for ex-servicemen of World War II, opening on 12 December 1942. It was then leased to Sydney Legacy at a token cost for use as a hostel for orphaned children of servicemen. In 1973 Legacy handed the property back to the Red Cross and the following year it opened as a Junior Red Cross Home. It now operates as a day care centre.
Georgian house in Casula which was built by Dr Charles Throsby in 1816.
California Bungalow-style house in Killara built in 1919 for William Virtue.
Victorian style house built on the Glenhurst Estate allotments by the solicitor, George Evans.
Italianate three storey sandstone mansion built for Edwin Stanley.
Grand gentleman's residence at Edgecliff. The house was eventually demolished and rebuilt in the 1870s. The second house of the same name was built on the site by merchant John Marks in the 1870s.
Two-storey villa with wide verandah and shuttered sash windows built on Woolloomooloo Hill for Thomas Macquoid.
Woolstores have occupied this site since the 1880s as the boom in wool exports began, using hydraulic goods and passenger lifts. When the original store, with its own railway siding, burnt down in 1935 it was quickly replaced in 1936 and it operated until the 1970s when brokers relocated to Yennora. In 1995 it reopened as residential apartments.
One of the few examples of row housing in the Randwick Municipality reminiscent of those built in British towns for the working class, Gordon Terrace consists of 13 small attached dwellings including one shop on the corner.
Governor's residence commissioned by Governor Bourke and constructed of local sandstone between 1836 and 1843 in the Gothic Revival style.
Two-story Georgian revival residence in Pymble.
Grand house built by Felix Caleb Wilson c 1838 in Potts Point.
Former gardener's cottage on the Paling estate of Grasmere west of Camden, that is now part of Carrington Hospital.
Grand three storey sandstone villa which was built around a former 1823 residence, Euroka. With sandstone stables and extensive grounds it reflected the social standing and status of its changing ownership. It's current use as a nursing home reflects the generosity of Thomas Dibbs during World War I.
Cottage built by Thomas Mort for his children around 1850 close to his gentleman's residence Greenoaks which became Bishopscourt.
Public housing development at Kirribilli.
Georgian style sandstone of two storeys built for George Green.
Two-storey Victorian style sandstone mansion in Vaucluse. John Reeve purchased the land from William Charles Wentworth and commissioned John Hilly to build the property. It was completed at a cost of 5,000 pounds. He and his wife never lived there. In 1897, the property was severely damaged by fire and then completely rebuilt. In 1911, the property was transferred to public ownership and given over by the state government for use as a hospital for babies and then a mothercraft centre. It was added to the Sydney Harbour National Park in 1978.
Colonial mansion built on land purchased by William Lawson c1810.
Imposing residential design in the Federation style by the architects Spain and Rowe made all the more prominent by occupying an island site.
Rendered sandstock brick cottage in the Colonial Georgian style built on Elizabeth Farm for the Macarthur governess Penelope Lucas. Now owned by Parramatta Council it is occupied by the Parramatta Historical Society and is open to the public as a museum. It is located on Hassall Street Parramatta near Gregory Place.
Georgian style sandstone villa on the Balmain peninsula which was constructed in 1847.
Country retreat of W.H. Hargraves, registrar in Equity and a trustee of the Australian Museum in Sydney, son of the man who claimed credit for the discovery of gold in New South Wales in 1851
House built for Isaac Shepherd in the 1840s and later occupied by Henry Parkes.
House built in 1822 for John Piper considered at the time the most elegant house in the Colony. It was demolished in the 1850s and Woollahra House was later built on the site.
Villa built for George Williams on his estate in Glebe on the current site of Foley Park. The carriageway and some fig trees remain.
Large gable fronted residence with prominent central tower and spire. in Victorian Free Classical style. Part of the Witches Houses precinct associated with John Young.
Federation mansion owned by the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service.
Darlinghurst villa built for John Rae.
Victorian Free Classical style gentleman's residence. Part of the Witches Houses precinct associated with builder John Young.
Two storey brick house with attic rooms in Federation Arts and Crafts style by one of the leading architects of the Federation era, E. Jeaffreson Jackson.
House in Engadine built about 1888 by Charles McAlister, the first settler in the area, and named Sunbeam Cottage. It was extended in 1897 and renamed Holmlea.
Rustic Gothic style harbourside mansion at Neutral Bay which has since been converted to apartments.
Known as the oldest farmhouse in Randwick, the two storey Georgian cottage was built by George Hooper and originally situated on 15 acres of land which he purchased for market gardens and orchards. It was built of local sandstone and after Hooper moved to Queensland, the cottage remained the property of his descendents until the late 1970s. In 1980 an interim conservation order was placed on the property, and in 1999 it was transferred to the State Heritage Register.
Two storey Georgian house built in 1831 by Joshua John Moore on his estate. He was granted 500 acres in 1819 and named it Horningsea Park after his village in England. It has been altered and renovated but remains a landmark at Liverpool.
Colonial farm estate of homestead and outbuildings which is a rare example of an 1830s estate. Situated on a land grant to Major George Johnston for his part in suppressing the Castle Hill uprising, the estate was developed by his daughter and husband Blanche and George Weston.
Grand residence built in the Italianate style which shaped the streetscape in Avoca Street.
Home built for John Sulman and family in Boomerang Street Turramurra in 1896. The family lived there until 1910.
Residential and shopping complex built around a central plaza off Norton Street in Leichhardt.
Six sandstone cottages built at Wolli Creek by quarryman and stonemason William Jackson for his family.
Stone kitchen which is a remnant of the orchardist's farmhouse at Lane Cove.
Elegant home at 531 Kent Street that was built for surveyor William Harper in 1827. It is the only example of an 1820s Colonial Georgian single storey bungalow to survive in the city. It was leased to the judge James Dowling from 1828 until 1831. In 1879 the house was sold to the City Night Refuge and Soup Kitchen trustees, who had been leasing the property since 1868. In the 1970s some of the outbuildings were demolished and the house sold to commercial owners and converted for use as a restaurant.
Built as 'the finest house in Sydney' this two storey Georgian home of eight rooms had a cellar, stables and servant's quarters. Known between 1831 and 1945 as Ormond House. By 1852 it was a home for destitute children and then a children's court. Almost demolished in 1921,a public outcry saw it redeveloped for commercial use with shops replacing front garden which were only removed in the late 1980s. It is now used as partial residence and gallery after the Moran family took a 99 year lease in 2012.
Mansion in Rozelle with 20 rooms, stables and a coachouse that stood on land that is now part of Rozelle Hospital. Built by the Deputy Surveyor General Captain Samuel Augustus Perry in 1840-1844 and named Austenham (Perry's first estate, also named Austenham, was subdivided and this house built with the proceeds). It was bought by David Ramsay in 1863 and renamed Kalouan, taken from the given names of three of his children - Kathleen, Louise and Ann. In 1878 it was bought by businessman John Keep, owner of the adjacent Broughton Hall, and renamed Broughton Villa. It was demolished in 1932 to make way for a new ward building for the Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic.
A Federation Queen Anne style home in Darling Point which was built when the Mona estate was subdivided.
Home established at 72 Howard Street Coogee by the Australian Mothercraft Society for mother and baby care. Named for the town in New Zealand where Dr Truby King had a home.
Residential block constructed for the nurses at Parramatta hospital. Now demolished.
Gracious freestanding house erected on land that had originally been part of the Glebe Estate.
Number 260 Johnston Street Annandale. One of a group of eight houses built by John Young in 1888-89 near the northern end of Johnston Street.
Mansion in Elizabeth Bay Road that was converted to a residential club for Australian and Allied officers in August 1943.
Substantial gentleman's residence with extensive gardens and lawn bowling green situated between Johnston and Annandale streets which was demolished and the land subdivided in 1908.
A single storey house in Arts and Crafts style built for Mr H G Pratten to a design by Frank Buckell of Spain Cosh and Minnett. Around 1929 the additional storey designed by Wright, Son and Apperley was added.
A suburban castle, complete with moat, in Gordon.
Two storey sandstone Victorian Italianate style mansion at Elizabeth Bay which became a school in 1909.
Luxury Federation style brick apartment block in Potts Point on the corner of Greenknowe Avenue and Macleay Streets. Designed by architects Halligan & Wilton, it was one of the first apartment blocks in Sydney, and featured two balconies and bathrooms in each of the 16 units. A cedar staircase, electric light and wood panelling and passenger lifts were also features. The building predated other the exclusive apartments which shaped the area in the 1920s and 1930s.
Gothic mansion with commanding views of the harbour which was associated with prominent colonial merchants before being bought in 1920 by the Governnment. It was refurbished for use as Prime Ministerial residence in 1958.
House which once existed at 66 Bayswater Road Darlinghurst.
House built for George Thornton in Sorrell Street, Parramatta in 1895.
Late Victorian mansion in Manly owned by Mark Mitchell
Home on the West Esplanade at Manly which had its own croquet lawn.
Grand guesthouse on Leura Mall which was built in 1892 for travellers arriving at the newly built train platform. In 1968 it was converted to a nursing home.
Country retreat built in the 1880s which became an elegant guesthouse. convent and school boarding house and again a guesthouse.
Two storey house in Federation style built on the site of another imposing residence destroyed by bushfire in 1909.
Summer residence in late Victorian-early Queen Anne style comprising house, kitchen, cottage and extensive gardens. Built for the lieutenant governor it now functions as a restaurant in a luxury hotel.
Gothic revival style mansion in Darling Point, the first built when the area was subdivided in 1833. Commanding a sweeping view of the harbour, it survives as office and function centre though the formal gardens have diminished with subdivision. It was named in honour of Colonel Patrick Lindesay (1778-1839) who was acting Governor of the colony from 22 October to 2 December 1831.
House built after the subdivision of the Ultimo estate. Now the site of the Ultimo Community Centre
Residence of William Henry Harris in Harris St, Ultimo, since demolished.
House built in the 1850s on what was then Yarranabbe Road Darling Point. The address eventually became 9 Thornton Street.
Home of Ernest Fisk at the corner of Stuart and Cleveland Streets Wahroonga, which received the first radio signal between England and Australia.
House at 7 Stanley Road Hunters Hill built for CE Jeanneret in 1858.
Home constructed for businessman Joseph Davis in the 1860s. It later became the childhood home of author Christina Stead and is now a regional museum.
Garden mansion and estate which was subdivided from 1852 and became a theological college and Catholic school, along with many other uses. Almost derelict by 1972 it was saved from demolition for a proposed freeway by community action. It was restored by the Heritage Council and Historic Houses Trust and has since been sold to private owners for use as a home.
Californian bungalow style home at Killara. This style began to appear in Australian domestic architecture from about 1912.
Row of five elegant townhouses built in Liverpool Street opposite Hyde Park for emancipist Samuel Lyons in 1841. The initial designs in 1837 by John Verge were completed by John Bibb. The houses were gradually demolished in the early 20th century, the first in 1910 and the last in 1925.
House built for local mill owner Henry Thompson in John Street Camden. It now forms part of the Camden Council Administration Offices.
Pymble house and gardens designed by architect William Hardy Wilson in the Colonial Revival style.
Regency style sandstone house built on the remains of Meehan's Castle. It survives as a rare example of a nineteenth century homestead in a rural setting.
House in Warrawee Avenue, Warrawee designed and owned by Leslie Wilkinson, which is a mixture of Georgian revival and Mediterranean styles.
Georgian style two storey homestead located on South Creek flood plains near St Marys. It is significant for its association with Marsden's development of the wool industry. Now used by the Sisters of Mercy for community training.
House built in the 1860s on part of the current site of Fitzroy Gardens, Kings Cross.
Monastery attached to Marcellin College at Randwick which had been built as a two storey brick home and was purchased by the school in 1923.
Sandstone Gothic Revival style house built by WB Dalley in 1882 in Manly on the former site of the Camera Obscura.
Part of a group of building including storeroom and dispensary which were constructed for the use of the matrons or supervisors of the Female Factory.
One of twin terraces built by Norman Selfe at Balmain and lived in by family members.
The home of Francis and Maybanke Anderson at Bayview.
Sandstone house built at Ballast Point, Balmain, for Thomas Perkins in 1864.
House on Edgecliff Road, Woollahra built in 1859 by John Edye Manning, since demolished. In later years as a boarding house after WWII it became the home of a group of artists who became known as the Merioola Group
Home in Willoughby after which a local street is named. The Merrenburn estate was auctioned in 1910, and Merrenburn itself was purchased by the the Sisters of St Joseph in 1912
Two-storey mansion in Killara.
Georgian Revival residence on Sydney's upper north shore.
Balmain house occupied by estate agent Alfred Hancock and his family on the site of what is now Ann Cashman Reserve. It was typical of the dwellings that sprang up on his estates, constructed in weatherboard and corrugated iron.
Home in Burns Road, Wahroonga designed by William Hardy Wilson.
Remand home and shelter for boys who were awaiting Children's Court hearings.
House built for the Vicars family at 34 Victoria Road about 1860. It is one of the oldest houses in Marrickville.
Small cottage that, with its neighbour Elsie, was used as a women's refuge in 1974.
Surry Hills facility for drug users and the homeless offering accommodation and health services.
Regency style villa located on Mona Road in Darling Point. The residence was owned by the Smart family and then leased by Thomas Rowe. It was converted into flats in 1922.
Home at Springwood. Now demolished, the gateposts can be found at the entrance to Buttenshaw Park.
House on the highest point of the Darling Point peninsula with impressive harbour views, that was demolished for the construction of Federation Arts and Crafts/Art Nouveau residence Babworth House.
Federation mansion in Arts and Crafts style built for Anne and Oscar Roberts.
House originally constructed by Reuben Uther but renamed and extended by Thomas Rose in the 1820s. Gilead is now being developed as a Sydney suburb.
House owned by the Lattie family in Bay Road, Berrilee. Listed on the NSW Heritage Register
Homestead built by Samuel Terry between 1820 and 1830 on an estate of the same name near present day Cranebrook. The land had been granted to his wife Rosetta Marsh in 1809.
Late Victorian residence built for solicitor and Mayor of Rockdale John Horatio Clayton. It became a home for babies and young unmarried mothers who had been committed by the Children's Court to state care. Some mothers retained their babies after they left Myee, but many babies were adopted. From 1977 it was used as a home for secondary school aged boys who were considered to have intellectual disabilities.
House at Fairlight owned by the Tolhurst family.
Sandstone dwelling at the corner of Churchill Drive and Windsor Rd Northmead.
First house built in James Street, Fairlight.
Two storey Regency Villa with formal gardens which now functions as the administrative building for Silverwater Correctional Centre.
One of twin terraces built by Norman Selfe in Balmain, and lived in by family members.
Fifteen storey block of flats in Surry Hills which replaced slums and tenements.
House commissioned by May Gibbs and her husband James Ossoli Kelly in 1924 on the harbour at Neutral Bay. Now heritage-listed and located at 5 Wallaringa Avenue, Neutral Bay/Kurraba Point
Federation style mansion with views of the Gordons Bay and Coogee Bay area. It was built by Philip Wirth and is one of the few surviving large residences in the Coogee area. Each of the six bedrooms had an ensuite bathroom, one of the earliest homes in Sydney to have such facilities. The once extensive grounds around the mansion housed a private zoo, and it is rumoured one of the Wirth's Circus' most famous performers, Alice the elephant, is buried in its grounds. The home stayed with the Wirth family until it was sold in 2009 for five million dollars.
Single storey Georgian brick farmhouse built c1819-1821 on Punt Road, Pitt Town. It was purchased in 1828 as a manse for the Reverend John McGarvie, the first incumbent of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church. The punt across the river was part of the property. The house was damaged in the floods of 1867 but repaired and remained in use as a manse for another ten years. Leased to a farmer after 1877, the building was sold by the church in 1959. It is the earliest surviving Australian housing used by clergy.
Colonial stone house with wide verandahs, four bedrooms and marble mantles now used as a kindergarten.
Grand country manor house constructed in the 1830s by John Douglas Campbell that retains many of the stables and sheds of the original homestead complex. The house was built on a subdivision of Harrington Park, land granted to William Campbell in 1815. The name 'Oran' and 'Oran Farm' was in use for the property by at least 1829 but it's origin has not been traced.
Accommodation block used as a girls' home and later as a training school by the Child Welfare Department. As an annexe it provided housing for the privileged girls from Parramatta who were near the end of their sentence and had responded well to training.
Brick farmhouse built in the 1820s and named Osborne when Ronald Barr purchased a portion of Agnes Banks in 1926.
Early Regency style townhouse built in the 1830s which originally had an arched carriageway to the right of the entrance.
Victorian mansion which is now part of Greenwich Hospital.
Home built in 1960 by Allen and Jack. It has a modern flat roof with post and beam design.
Two storey sandstone residence built for the French consul Louis
Francois Sentis by Jules Joubert.
Sandstone cottage at 19 Johnston St Balmain
Tudor style house built in 1885 by architect Walter Liberty Vernon in Neutral Bay
Single storey Colonial/Victorian Georgian residence in Parramatta with stables and carriageway, a paved stone verandah and generous garden. It was also used as a school.
House in Warrawee designed by architect John Horbury Hunt for Eccleston du Faur.
Weatherboard cottage built at the end of a sandy track that was to become Booralee Street facing Botany Bay. It was to be the Smith family home for generations of fishermen for over 100 years.
The largest residence designed by Walter Burley Griffin, and one of three in the Ku-ring-gai area.
Wahroonga house and gardens designed by William Hardy Wilson in the Colonial Revival style.
Two storey gentleman's residence in Victorian Italianate style with a tall centrally placed tower and a sweeping set of steps faced with a series of Victorian pattern ceramic tiles.
Indian bungalow style home of 16 rooms in Bradbury at 74 Fern Avenue. Damaged by fire in 2013
Cottage built for park rangers over the site of the sunken milk room of the adjacent dairy.
Large Italianate house built for cement pioneer and grazier George Raffan. It has extensive gardens with Norfolk pines, bamboo and Port Jackson fig trees and was used as a boarding school by Sydney Grammar for over 50 years.
House designed by Eleanor Cullis-Hill for herself in Bangalla Avenue Warrawee. Now Bangalla Street
Neo Gothic manor built circa 1870, once owned by Thomas Ireland.
House in Roseville owned by Eden Herschel Babbage.
Priests' house in the parish of Redfern, which was made into a haven for Aboriginal activists by Father Ted Kennedy, parish priest for more than 30 years.
Enmore residence of ex-convict Mary Reibey from the 1840s. Demolished in 1960s.
High Victorian Gothic mansion built as part of a significant heritage group that originally comprised four buildings. It is assymmetrical with a brick tower and an unusual bay window.
Workers cottages of brick and sandstone which remain a significant relic of Colonial Georgian style. A third cottage was built of timber at No.32 but has since been rebuilt in brick. Their change of use reflected the economic and social changes of The Rocks through the decades.
Colonial Georgian villa of sandstone which originally fronted a garden facing east towards the Domain on the site of the modern extension behind Parliament House in Macquarie Street. It was used as a family home and parliamentary annex before being reconstructed on Kent Street in 1976.
Guesthouse at Cremorne Point which was converted to a private hotel but became enmeshed in controversy when residents fought the redevelopment which made it unavailable for low cost housing.
Darlinghurst villa built for James Laidley.
Colonial Georgian cottage of sandstock bricks with turned timber columns built as a private residence but later used by a number of small denominational schools.
Home built for Thomas Barker on his Woolloomooloo Hill estate.
Grand house in Palladian style Art Deco.
House built for Beresford Grant in 1913 in Warrawee Avenue, Warrawee.
Federation mansion which was converted by the State Children's Relief Board in 1922. It became a receiving home providing temporary accommodation for school-age boys who were waiting for children's court hearings or were state wards waiting to be placed in foster care or another institution. In 1936, 904 boys passed through its doors. It housed the Childrens Court from 1983 until 1992 when it was restored for holiday accommodation.
Two-storey stone house built by Major Edward Darvall on his estate at Ryde. In 1976 it was dismantled and rebuilt in the Paterson Valley.
Adjoining monastery and convent constructed for the Catholic Church from Pyrmont sandstone. The monastery also acted as a church until new premises were built in 1907.
The adjoining Bishop Verjus Memorial chapel was designed by Arthur S King and built by PD Ryan in 1923.
Four storey residential and office building currently used as a restaurant and gallery complex.
Two-storey sandstone cottage built by Simeon Pearce as part of a row of five investment properties, its first tenant was Edwin Penfold. It had several names before it was acquired by the Commonwealth Government in 1918 and became the 'Woodville Red Cross home' for World War I veterans. In 1928 Catherine and Harold Tippler purchased it and owned it until 1966 after which it changed hands numerous times before it was restored in 1987 by Randwick Council. It housed the Randwick and District Historical Society's museum and archives collection and was a Heritage Centre for the municipality until 1992. It is now a real estate agent office.
Sandstone house constructed at Berrilee in the 1930s.
Residence of Robert Wardell on Parramatta Road Petersham, now the site of Fort Street High School. Named after his de facto wife Sarah Rowe
Ornate Victorian terrace that is one of 12 freestanding houses in Potts Point.
Late Victorian mansion at Bondi which became a residential care home for children and later a centre for family support. Constructed for Malcolm Campbell on the site of a smaller cottage of the same name.
Group of 1870s houses with corner shop built as a result of the rapid development in Pyrmont in the 1870s, following the establishment of the CSR works. Supposed to be demolished for a factory in the 1950s, they were then bought by the City Council but squatters moved in, politics took hold and eventually the buildings were saved. Artists have painted them over the years.
Home built on land granted to Alexander Baxter on Woolloomooloo Hill. It was demolished in 1934 for the construction of a shopping centre.
Darling Point single storey cottage with wide verandahs built for Samuel Smyth which was enlarged with a second storey by auctioneer RP Richardson in the 1870s. Demolished in 1971 for an apartment block.
Stone cottage which now houses the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum.
Residential college within Sydney University constructed between 1874 and 1876.
House with an L shaped plan in Federation Arts and Crafts style which was one of BJ Waterhouse's early domestic commission.
Benedictine Monastery at Arcadia, built in stages between 1962 and 1980. The chapel includes some important stained glass windows including the 'Dunbar windows' from the original St Mary's cathedral, commemorating three of those drowned in the wreck of the Dunbar in 1857.
Residential building in Blakehurst, built in 1937, overlooking Shipwrights Bay on the Georges River.
Two storey Victorian mansion built for George Hoskins at 223 Burwood Road Burwood.
One of the earliest houses in Balgowlah Heights.
Randwick's first Council Chambers in the Gothic style was built at a cost of 700 pounds. Purchased by the church in 1895 and used as the residence of the church's caretaker it was then converted to St Jude's Parish Centre.
Two storey sandstone home built to a design attributed to Edmund Blacket, St Jude's rectory forms part of the St Jude's Church Precinct in Randwick.
Georgian style house built for Charles Scott at the corner of Cathedral and Palmer streets Woolloomooloo. It was converted for use as a school, a hospital and boarding house, and was at this time subdivided into flats. It has since been demolished.
Hostel providing accommodation for females over the age of 12 years. It was used by the New South Wales Government as a care institution, as well as accepting voluntary admissions from families who could not care for young women. The building is now a community centre.
House on the Parramatta River at Hunters Hill on part of the original land grant to Mary Reibey. When Burdekin House was demolished the Ionic pillars were installed at St Malo. The house was demolished in 1961.
Rectory for St Matthew's Anglican church, Windsor, built in 1825 and designed by Francis Greenway, who also designed the church.
Seminary of the Catholic church constructed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. It now houses a management college.
Colonial Regency style mansion of two storeys with single storey wings and stone flagged verandah built on a 96 acres estate. When the land was eventually subdivided the house was bought by the Catholic church for use as a convent.
Residence built ca.1847 for Mary Reiby's daughter Elizabeth, on the corner of Enmore Road and Reiby Street, Enmore. Although since altered, it still stands.
One of the earliest hotels in Randwick, the former Star and Garter Inn building became known for its distinctive castellated sandstone tower. Built at the corner of Avoca Street and Belmore Road by the alderman, William Ellis, it was then acquired by Captain Thomas Watson, a Sydney Harbour pilot who added the tower in the 1870s to enable views to Botany Bay. He named his home 'Cook's Lodge'. After his death, it became a private girls' school until the Hannan family purchased it in 1897 and operated a butchery until 1985. The building was extensively refurbished in 1987 and it now operates as a pub.
Two storey brick residence with a lodge, stables and other outbuildings on The Boulevarde at Strathfield. The suburb was named after the house when the Council was incorporated in 1885.
Early Victorian Italianate mansion originally called Carrara at 52 Vaucluse Rd, Vaucluse. It was designed by John Hilly and built for John Hosking in 1855. It has also been used as a school, convalescent hospital and aged care facility.
Student cooperative for full time students at the University of Sydney which was constructed from an old glass making factory between 1982 and 1991. The purchase and conversion was funded by the university and the Department of Housing.
House built for William Payne, which was later used as a school and golf club.
Fairlight residence of Arthur Griffith, MLA, erected in the 1920s.
Early Victorian group of simple terrace houses and corner shop built by Irish immigrants which are now a museum to working class life in the Rocks in the nineteenth century.
Large two storey residence with castellated towers at 87 Darley Road Randwick occupied by the Farrell family from 1906 to 1945. In the 1920s and 30s it was used by St Jude's Anglican church for monthly services. It became a private hotel in 1954 before being restored as a private residence in 1960.
Late-Victorian Gothic Revival mansion located in Darling Point built for the brewer Sir Robert Lucas Lucas-Tooth. In 1963, it was bequeathed by brewer Edmund Resch Jnr to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. When the ownership covenant lapsed it was sold privately in 1984.
Family home in George Street Parramatta which was converted to a school for girls in 1912. It was later demolished.
Single storey Victorian residence built for Lewis S Fleet.
Darlinghurst villa built of Sydney sandstone later used as the first St Vincent's Hospital, and then St Vincent's College until it was demolished in 1966.
Home built on the bank of Cooks River by Alexander Spark which became a social mecca for Sydney's merchants and bankers. It is a rare remaining example of Neo-Classical Georgian architecture in Sydney.
Prestigious thirteen storey reinforced concrete residential apartment building in the Interwar Free Classical Style at 123-125 Macquarie Street.
House built by CH Rolph in Lauderdale Avenue, Fairlight in the 1890s.
Arts and craft style bungalow on the site of Dobroyde House at 5 Rogers Avenue Haberfield.
Early Australian translation of the Californian Bunglow set on a terraced garden slope.
Residential block located on land granted to William Redfern in 1816. When the estate was subdivided in 1842 several brick buildings were erected which housed a builder, a confectioner, a boot maker, a railway guard and an engine driver before conversion for use as a picture theatre which also hosted amateur boxing. A warehouse built in 1927 housed Leyland Motors and then Renault until the 1970s before further conversion to apartments.
Large private boarding house built by Irish immigrant Felix Cullen.
House in Hunters Hill, occupied during the 1910s by Maybanke and Francis Anderson.
House built at Castle Hill by Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt.
A house and estate at Ryde established by John Blaxland, the son of explorer Gregory Blaxland. The house was designed by John Bibb for Blaxland's family in 1841 and so named because Blaxland was known as the hermit within the family.
Gothic style house with steeply pitched gables and decorative timber work.
Home built in Boyle Street Balgowlah for AS Knight with views of North Harbour and the Head.
House in Mosman which was used as the headquarters of Theosophy in Sydney from the 1920s.
Cottage at 817 Victoria Road, Ryde which was built by former convict James Shepherd for his daughter Ann Henry. The building adjoins Adington which was also built by Shepherd.
Residential buildings erected at East Circular Quay in the 1990s despite considerable public opposition, which derisively nicknamed them the 'The Toaster'.
Two storey Gothic style brick mansion built by local builder David Jones as his home.
House and farm on the Parramatta River established by Philip Schaeffer on his land grant in 1792. After several private owners it was purchased for the Catholic church and converted to a convent school for young girls in 1851. When the school declined it housed a closed Benedictine community until the area was reclaimed for industry in 1957.
Victorian Gothic mansion with over 30 rooms on the banks of the Cooks River at Marrickville. Filled with art and sculptures the house was built of sandstone quarried on the property.
House built at Enmore in the 1850s for Thomas Chaplin Breillat.
Originally constructed as a colonial stone cottage, a second storey was added as part of the major rebuilding by Morrice Black in 1881. It retains many of the original features as a boarding house for Kambala school.
Italianate house in Avoca Street Randwick named, like its neighbours, for Devon seaside towns.
Public house in George Street opposite the railway with a folly over 40 feet high complete with battlements and dummy guns which provided endless eerie stories for local children. Thought to have been built about 1847
Two storey sandstone mansion built c1860 in Georgian Revival style which was one of the earliest houses to be built in the area.
Cottage built for his daughter on his Toxteth estate by George Allen. The original six room Georgian building was modified with north and eastern wing additions in the 1880s and 1910. In 1957 Tranby became a training centre for the development of co-operative practices for Aboriginies under the control of the Australian Board of Missions Christian Community Co-operative.
Group of three Georgian buildings, including one single storey corner inn at 16 Hunter Streets, and two cottages at 12 & 14 O'Connell Streets.
Georgian building at 16 O'Connell Street, on the corner of Hunter Street Parramatta. Erected as an inn it served many purposes over the centuries including use as a hostel for homeless men by the 1890s. With the two buildings at 12 and 14 O'Connell Street, it forms the Travellers Rest Inn Group.
House at Medlow Bath which existed before the development of the Hydro Majestic Hotel. It had been owned by Alfred Tucker, whose widow later ran the Wonderland Park guesthouse to the north of the gatekeeper's cottage.
Arts and Crafts style suburban villa which reflects the taste and lifestyle of the upper middle class in Sydney prior to World War I.
Grand mansion built in Burwood in 1875 for iron founder John Robert Bubb. It was remodelled by Alban Joseph Riley for his large family in the 1880s. The house in Park Road, was saved from demolition in the 1980s and restored.
Two storey Regency villa which originally had a frontage to Woolloomooloo Bay and could be seen from Sydney Town. Constructed of stuccoed brickwork, it has cedar interiors, marble flooring and French doors opening to wide verandahs and is one of few colonial villas to survive.
House built in 1804 by surgeon John Harris on his estate at Ultimo, and extended in 1814 by the convict architect Francis Greenway. It was Greenway's first colonial commission.
Home built for Captain George Grimes in the 1830s which still stands at 50 Argyle Place Millers Point.
Five terrace houses constructed in the 1840s as a local property development by George Grimes adjacent to his home. The terraces still exist at 52-60 Argyle Place although the verandah style has been modified.
Nine roomed stone country house in the Gothic style on the south side of the Cooks River. It was later demolished for the widening of Homer Street in the 1880s.
Student apartments which were converted from an ornate three storey hotel which had lost its license in 1953. The site had been occupied by a hotel since the 1830s. Outside is a fountain commemorating the 50th anniversary of Glebe Municipality in 1909.
The original hotel built on the site in 1858 had been demolished by 1882.
House in Warrawee owned by John Gillespie, one of the founders of Knox Grammar School.
Early Victorian homestead incorporating features of the original house of the 1810s, surrounded by extensive gardens, arbours and circular driveway.
Large Katoomba house built by Eleanor and Eric Dark in the 1930s and donated to the New South Wales government as a writer's retreat in 1989.
Large Gothic-style residence surrounded by a nineteenth-century garden and outhouses on the harbour in Sydney's eastern suburbs. The original cottage was built by Irish convict Henry Browne Hayes in 1805, and he named it and the estate Vaucluse after the village of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse near Avignon in southern France. The house was greatly expanded by William Charles Wentworth after he purchased the estate in 1827. It is now a house museum run by the Historic Houses Trust.
Heritage-listed two-storey Victorian sandstone house built for George Kiss and was most probably named after the town of Ventnor in the Isle of Wight, England. The family resided there until 1963 when it was sold to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church.
House of brick and stone built for William Lawson on his estate at Prospect.
Rare tradesman's cottage of the nineteenth century, complete with its detached kitchen block built for John Jacob Hellman and his wife Arm.
Marist monastery established at Hunters Hill in the 1860s.
House built in Fairlight in the 1880s.
Home of the pioneering Waddell family in Galston from 1866 to 1969, now incorporated into Galston High School.
House built for Thomas Barr which was used as an hostel by the Royal Blind Society for many years.
House in Ultimo built by Matthew Harris in the 1860s in Bulwara Road (then known as Crown Road).
Residence of Roland Loane in Balmain, built in 1835, which gave its name to Waterview Bay. Final home of Nichol Drysdale Stenhouse
Two storey residence built on a sixty acre farm, now demolished. It was a home for many years before being used as an orphanage and a series of private schools including Kilburn Sisters School.
House built by Joseph Purser in 1845.
Residential block built by the City Council in the 1920s as workers' housing.
Heritage listed country residence constructed in Werrington County for Robert Copeland Lethbridge and his wife Mary, daughter of former Governor Philip Gidley King.
Sandstone house at 2-6 Nepean Street in Emu Plains which was built c1865 and extended in 1894. The house was originally surrounded by citrus orchards.
Home built for Norman Pope in Margaret Street Fairlight, since demolished.
Single storey Victorian Rustic Gothic style house built for William Marshall Jackson and thought to be one of oldest houses in Balgowlah.
House in Cobbitty, erected 1902, formerly named Pomare Grove House
Grand house built in the 1840s by James Devlin in Ryde.
Federation mansion at 18 Wilona Avenue in Greenwich that was built by William Wilson in 1902. The house was originally surrounded by its own dairy, tennis courts and croquet lawn on River Road. The surrounding land was subdivided in 1940 after the death of Ann Wilson who had continued to live there after her husband's death in 1935.
House built of Camden stone for Sir Charles Cowper in 1837 to a design by John Verge on part of the original grant of land made to the Cowper family by Governor Macquarie in 1812
Seven phases of institutional building, carried out between 1892 and 1996 demonstrate the growth of the College and changing architectural styles over more than a century. The original building was designed by John Sulman and Joseph Porter Power to accommodate 26 students, and opened in 1894. The College now houses over 280 students.
House built for the Hamilton family of Pymble, and later used as a Methodist children's home.
House on Sydney's north shore, where Ethel Turner lived.
House built for Daniel Cooper in 1856 on the site of Henrietta Villa.
House built for William Cooper in 1883 on the site of his father's former house of the same name.
House constructed on Woolloomooloo Farm c1793.
Large Victorian style gentleman's residence.
Home built in the Federation style for George McFarlane in 1901 in Ku-ring-gai Avenue Turramurra.
Federation style weatherboard and corrugated iron cottage with wrap around verandah which is regarded as historically significant as an example of small holder farming in Camden area.
House in the Victorian Italianate style, built for Thomas Walker in 1857 on land granted to Isaac Nichols in 1797.
Thought to have been built as a second cable station for use between 1903 and 1917, it has also been a medical ward, girls' industrial school and boys' truancy school before becoming an administrative centre for the Aboriginal land council.
Grand nineteenth-century house still standing in Haberfield. Situated at 185 Parramatta Road it has variously been a home, army quarters and remand centre.
Victorian Georgian stone house at 11-19 Queens Avenue, Mount Wilson that was built for industrialist Jesse Gregson in 1880. The house is one of the foundation houses of Mount Wilson, and the significant garden was created by Gregson with the help of Charles Moore and then J.H. Maiden.
Home first established on Victoria Street, Darlinghurst to cater for foundlings and to provide accommodation for unmarried mothers and their babies. Two years after it was founded, one of its supporters, Thomas Walker, suggested the home be moved to larger premises, a house called 'Gorton' on Henry Street, Ashfield.
The Carpentarian Boys Reformatory which was created in 1894 at Brush Farm, the house built in Eastwood by Gregory Blaxland. After the reformatory was closed the building operated as a home for nursing women and then for girls.
Support organisation for single working girls to provide safe budget accommodation in the city. The premises in Elizabeth St opened in 1924 and another was established at Surry Hills from 1927 to 1973.
Retirement home established by Dutch community in Sydney.
Waterfront apartment development on site of former Balmain Power Station.
Migrant hostel established on a former RAAF training camp in Lindfield.
Hostel for immigrants, in Fairfield local government area, leading many Vietnamese to settle there since 1970s.
Retirement home for aged Croatian migrants in Sydney.
House in Fairlight built by C A Laurence in the late 19th century.
Residential home in Stanmore for country girls who had to come to Sydney to further their education.
Accommodation centre built at East Hills after World War II to house displaced persons and assisted migrants.
Home of the Bate family in Roseville which, in 1892, became a home for inebriates..
Small street in Chippendale that runs off Broadway and Cleveland Street. One of the areas oldest streets, it has been redeveloped as part of a 'lifestyle precinct' and public place.
Unique surviving colonial house and garden, owned by the same family for 180 years.
Army quarters in Paddington with a range of sandstone buildings dating from 1841 to the Edwardian period, that comprise one of the best groups of colonial buildings in Sydney. The Barracks housed British soldiers until 1870 before occupation by colonial forces and the Australian Army.
Accommodation for migrants established by the Commonwealth government after World War II. It was more recently converted to a detention centre for people awaiting deportation from Australia.
Complex of retail, residential and commercial buildings constructed on the site of the once vast Anthony Hordern department store. When the store was demolished in 1986 the site remained empty for 20 years because of planning disputes. The complex now dominates the southern commercial section of the city.
Barracks and parade ground constructed for the the military in the early days of the colony. They were used until the new Victoria Barracks were completed in 1848.
Estate of noted philanthropist Thomas Walker and his heir Eadith Walker, at Concord.
The only relatively intact villa house estate remaining on Parramatta Road at Haberfield. It was formed when 46 acres of Dobroyde Estate were transferred to Alexander and Mary Louisa Learmonth on their marriage. The name is the reverse spelling of Ramsay.
Harry Phillips
[SPF/1915]
Hall & Co
[Home and Away - 34937]
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Louise Hawson
© www.52suburbs.com.au
Michaela Ann Cameron
Harold Cazneaux
By kind permission of the
Cazneaux family
[a147197 / PXE 92, 197]
(from 'views taken during Cleansing Operations, Quarantine Area, Sydney,1900, Vol IV, Mitchell Library)
[054\054583]
(NSCA CRS 1035, Central Sydney Heritage Inventory Photographs, 1989)
Augustus Earle
[nla.pic-an2818442]
(The house in the background is probably Glenfield, the home of Dr Charles Throsby, at Casula.)
John Henry Harvey
Image courtesy of the
[Acc No: H91.300/41]
[a1341002 / Q79/60 v. 1, facing p 125]
(Mitchell Library, David Collins, 'An account of the English colony in New South Wales', Cadell & Davies, London, 1798)
[nla.news-article36858087 via Trove]
(The Australian, 21 December 1837, p3)
[a623016 / PX*D 123, 5c]
(St Lawrence Temporary Church, in the residence of IT Hughes, Esqre)
[Image H2009.100/574]
[d1_10333 / GPO1 10333]
Adrian Hall
[Image H91.300/675]
Walter Chaffer
[a325028 / SPF 1028]
George Edwards Peacock
[DG 355 / a140024]
(Dixson Galleries)
[C4077, BASS HILL]
Linda Brainwood
Hardie & Gorman Pty Ltd
[nla.map-lfsp2251 / MAP Folder 142, LFSP 2251]
Joseph Bischoff
[PXD 797/1]
[a147257 / PXE 93, 257 (detail)]
Jeff Carter
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/53368913@N05/8111875682]
(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Edward William Searle
[Acc No: 30328102131561/12 (detail)]
(from 'Parramatta, New South Wales' Published Sep.1,1824 by J. Souter 73, St Pauls Church Yard, London. Plate no. 11 of 'Views in Australia' by Joseph Lycett)
Walter G Mason
Phil Hediger
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/52397406@N00/2288892867/]
Arthur Wigram Allen
[a3276009 / PX*D 579, 5]
(Album 37: Photographs of the Allen family, 7 April 1906 - 12 November 1906, Mitchell Library)
Albert James Perier
[perier_34405 / Home & Away 34405]
[a4814001 / SSV1B/Parr/6]
Boyce Allen
[a3274054 / PX*D 576/50]
(Album 34: Photographs of the Allen family, 24 January 1905 - 2 July 1905)
[a3275005 / PX*D 573/8]
(Album 31: Photographs of the Allen family, 20 September 1903 - 20 January 1904)
OH Lewis & Sons
[V1A / Ros B / 4]
State Archives & Records New South Wales
[4481_a026_000194]
[A12111, 2/1973/22A/203]
Ted Hood
[a3236009 / PXA 584/9]
[SRC1040]
ABIS Brown
© Commonwealth of Australia 2011. Courtesy of the
[S20152080]
(Department of Defence/ADF)
Harold Arthur Blomfield
(Courtesy of Charles Blomfield, Wagga Wagga)
George William Evans (attributed)
[a1120005 / PX*D 41, 5]
[SSV1A / St Pe / 1, 1]
T Turner
Graham Trevena
[Page 4d]
(from the album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of N.S.W presented by the Society to His Excellency Lord Carrington August 1886')
[5225_a018_a018000072]
[hood_11425 / Home and Away 11425]
Ben Boyd's store at left, Craignathan residence, Thrupps Cottage at right
[SPF/377]
Victor A Prout
Sydney Living Museums
Charles Rodius
[a128520 / SSV*/Sp Coll/Rodius/1]
[a3277042 / PX*D 574, p37]
(from 'Album 32: Photographs of the Allen family, February 1904 - September 1904', Mitchell Library)
Major James Taylor
[a2916002 / V1/ca.1821/5 DETAIL]
Frederick (attributed) Garling
[a128230 / SV/42]
Frederick Charles Terry
[a1528648 / DL Pe 205]
Conrad Martens
[Caroline Simpson Collection: L2005/1]
(Caroline Simpson Collection)
Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
Jenny McInerney
Brian Yoon Vee Yap
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/yewenyi/135805330]
(yewenyi) (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Richard Read Junior
[a128862 / V1A/P Pip/2]
Drusilla Modjeska
[a128971 / ML 1009]
[inbadcompanyothe00bolduoft_0343]
(from 'Ancient Sydney', In bad company, and other stories, by Rolf Boldrewood, Macmillan, London 1903, p331)
angusf
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusf/3915648934/]
Gabrielle Gwyther
[a116284 / PXE 711/284]
[MSS B1310, p 153]
(from 'Journal of a voyage from London to Sydney in the barque Fortune, April 5 - August 31, 1838', Mitchell Library)
[TN83]
(Australian Town and Country Journal, September 22, 1888, p599)
Alice M Haigh
[a6898009 / DL PX 144/vol. 4, 9]
Hornsby Shire Library
H Stuart Wilson
[a3767001 / ML 1437]
[4481_a026_000205.jpg]
(Rocks Resumption photographic survey)
[a128056 / DG 336]
Frederick Garling
[a128348 / ML 70]
[a928163 / V1B/Parr/18]
George William Evans
[a1528245 / SSV1B/Parr/12]
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