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Jolly Swagman Backpackers’ Hostel

"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". The title was Australian...

Jolly Swagman Backpackers’ Hostel

9 Jul 2020

A SILENT SCULPTURE

Sitting silently in Springfield Gardens, Kings Cross, is a Sydney Council sculpture. It has no name, no known designer, and...

A SILENT SCULPTURE

2 Jul 2020

Former Commonwealth Bank, 40-42 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross

This unusual building at 42 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross, is a former Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) branch. It still...

Former Commonwealth Bank, 40-42 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross

25 Jun 2020

Woolloomooloo Warehouse Re-used

153-161 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo, is historically significant. It is one of the few remaining warehouse developments that were part of...

Woolloomooloo Warehouse Re-used

17 Jun 2020

LIVING ON THE SKYLINE AS KING OF THE HILL: MACLEAY-REGIS

MACLEAY-REGIS is Latin for “King of Macleay”, and 12 Macleay Street, is an appropriate title for this regal, majestic apartment...

LIVING ON THE SKYLINE AS KING OF THE HILL: MACLEAY-REGIS

11 Jun 2020

THE DOCTOR IS “IN”

Doctor Tony Trachtenberg is a man of glittering prizes and glittering surprises. His sole-practitioner GP’s surgery sits silently on the corner...

THE DOCTOR IS “IN”

4 Jun 2020

84 Elizabeth Bay Road

Number 84 Elizabeth Bay Road is a nineteenth century two-storey brick home of grand proportions. For its time it was...

84 Elizabeth Bay Road

21 May 2020

The Frisco Hotel, Woolloomooloo

The Frisco Hotel at 46 Dowling Street, Woolloomoloo, is of historic and social importance. There was a hotel on the site...

The Frisco Hotel, Woolloomooloo

14 May 2020

PEMBROKE

"Pembroke" is nine-storey block of apartments built in 1938, just prior to the beginning of World War II, during the...

PEMBROKE

7 May 2020

MARLBOROUGH HALL FINESSE

Good architecture responds sympathetically to its environment. Marlborough Hall, 4 Ward Avenue, Potts Point (completed 1938), is  a good example. Apartment...

MARLBOROUGH HALL FINESSE

1 May 2020

TWENTY MACLEAY STREET

Twenty Macleay Street is one of a number of a large number of apartment blocks built in the highly fashionable Potts...

TWENTY MACLEAY STREET

17 Apr 2020

OUR ARTS AND CRAFT HERITAGE

The 2011 postcode area is part of our early colony as an English convict camp. It enjoys examples of Georgian...

OUR ARTS AND CRAFT HERITAGE

8 Apr 2020

FITZROY GARDENS

FITZROY GARDENS at 60-64 Macleay Street, Potts Point, was originally part of the 1841 subdivision of Colonial Secretary Alexander Macleay’s...

FITZROY GARDENS

2 Apr 2020

Apartment 5, 13 Springfield Avenue Potts Point

Apartment 5, 13 Springfield Avenue, Potts Point, in the Vanderbuilt building is for sale through Angelo Bouras  https://www.rwebay.com.au/5338716/ It dates from...

Apartment 5, 13 Springfield Avenue Potts Point

26 Mar 2020

Our Edwardian Heritage Apartment 12/1 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay

Apartment 12/1 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, Kingsclere, is for sale though Jason Boon and Geoff Cox https://www.rwebay.com.au/5332323/   The Victorian era was...

Our Edwardian Heritage Apartment 12/1 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay

19 Mar 2020

275 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst

Darlinghurst is one of Sydney’s earliest suburbs dating from the 1850s. 275 Darlinghurst Road, an original terrace house, now renovated,...

275 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst

12 Mar 2020

Our Victorian Heritage

Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years from 1837 to 1901, a reign only recently eclipsed by Queen Elizabeth II who...

Our Victorian Heritage

5 Mar 2020

Our Architectural Heritage, a Living History

The 2011 postcode including Potts point, Australia’s oldest suburb, is graced with fine architecture but the breadth of its gems...

Our Architectural Heritage, a Living History

27 Feb 2020

A Ship and a Bell

On 4th May 1906, the steamship (SS) Buninyong was on her regular coastal cargo voyage from Melbourne to Sydney. She...

A Ship and a Bell

20 Feb 2020

MEDINA HALL 26-28 KINGS CROSS ROAD, KINGS CROSS

Medina Hall is a classic 1917 apartment block. Apartment 4 is for sale through Angelo Bouras and Luke McDonnell https://www.rwebay.com.au/5278088/   It shares...

MEDINA HALL 26-28 KINGS CROSS ROAD, KINGS CROSS

13 Feb 2020