Suburb History

Lachlan Apartments 9 St Neots Avenue Potts Point

The Lachlan Art Deco apartments at 9 St Neot Avenue is almost hidden in its streetscape. It is nestled behind...

Lachlan Apartments 9 St Neots Avenue Potts Point

27 Feb 2025

9 The Esplanade

Elizabeth Bay and Potts Point contains Australia's finest collection of original Art Deco apartments. Some are grand, others are more...

9 The Esplanade

20 Feb 2025

143 Brougham Street, Woolloomooloo

143 Brougham Street is for sale through Jason Boon, Geoff Cox and Josh Reid Real Estate  Real Estate For Sale -...

143 Brougham Street, Woolloomooloo

13 Feb 2025

CARINTHIA, NEO-CLASSICAL MASTERPIECE

CARINTHIA, NEO-CLASSICAL MASTERPIECE Carinthia is an elegant eleven-storey apartment building facing north-south at 7 Springfield Avenue, Potts Point, which also backs...

CARINTHIA, NEO-CLASSICAL MASTERPIECE

30 Jan 2025

TARA

Apartment 109, 3-5 Greenknowe Avenue Elizabeth Bay is for sale through Rod Angus. See Real Estate For Sale - 109/3-5 Greenknowe...

TARA

23 Jan 2025

CLAIRMONT, 5 WARD AVENUE

Question: when is an apartment block not an apartment block? Answer: when it is a garage, a car park, or...

CLAIRMONT, 5 WARD AVENUE

19 Dec 2024

Famous Architect Leaves Landmark

(John) Burcham Clamp (1869-1931) was born into aesthetics. His father was a London-born hairdresser. Clamp was highly influential Sydney architect...

Famous Architect Leaves Landmark

12 Dec 2024

BEATLES HIT SYDNEY

Unit 202/40 Macleay Street Elizabeth Bay is for sale through Angleo Bouras and Thomas Andrews. It is a decidedly 1960s apartment...

BEATLES HIT SYDNEY

5 Dec 2024

Serendipity

Serendipity is a blonde brick eight-storey building at 3-5 St Neot Avenue Potts Point. The avenue's road way ends abruptly forming...

Serendipity

21 Nov 2024

81 Elizabeth Bay Road, Potts Point

Apartment 9/81 Elizabeth Bay Road is for sale through Jason Boon and Geoff Cox Real Estate For Sale - 9/81 Elizabeth...

81 Elizabeth Bay Road, Potts Point

14 Nov 2024

Selsdon, 16 Macleay Street, Potts Point

Selsdon, 16 Macleay Street, Potts Point, is an apartment block with a scandalous European royalty heritage. When His Highness Prince Alphonso...

Selsdon, 16 Macleay Street, Potts Point

7 Nov 2024

BRICKS: BUILDNG SYDNEY

Bricks date back to 7000 BC making them one of the oldest known building materials. They were used by the...

BRICKS: BUILDNG SYDNEY

31 Oct 2024

The New Yorker 9 Ward Avenue

The New Yorker apartment block at 9 Ward Avenue Elizabeth Bay were built c 1938 and hints at the American...

The New Yorker 9 Ward Avenue

24 Oct 2024

WINSTON, ITHACA ROAD, ELIZABETH BAY

Winston apartments, 2a, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, built circa 1940, are possibly named after Winston Churchill. Sir Winston was the...

WINSTON, ITHACA ROAD, ELIZABETH BAY

17 Oct 2024

Kings Lynn

Kings Lynn is an old English name given to this nine-level block of red brick apartments in Elizabeth Bay overlooking...

Kings Lynn

3 Oct 2024

FINGER WHARF POINTS ITS FINGER AT FUTURE OF HERITAGE

Woolloomooloo's famous Finger Wharf is the largest timber pile wharf in the world. Built in 1910-6 on the site of local former fish markets (1872-1910)...

FINGER WHARF POINTS ITS FINGER AT FUTURE OF HERITAGE

19 Sep 2024

Parkview St Neot Avenue Potts Point

Unit 2, 7 St Neot Avenue is for sale through Rod Angus https://www.rwebay.com.au/8122082/ St Neot Avenue is a cul de sac that...

Parkview St Neot Avenue Potts Point

12 Sep 2024

4 Elizabeth Bay Road, Alexander Apartments

The Alexander apartments, 4 Elizabeth Bay Road, is surreptitious. It is setback from its front boundary and its entrance leads...

4 Elizabeth Bay Road, Alexander Apartments

5 Sep 2024

OUR MEDITTERANEAN INFLUENCES

Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay have absorbed various architectural styles over the centuries. These include buildings from the Regency period...

OUR MEDITTERANEAN INFLUENCES

29 Aug 2024

HAMPTON APARTMENTS

The Hampton apartments, 15 Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay, is now a nine-storey, high-end apartment block of 121 apartments, but was also once a...

HAMPTON APARTMENTS

25 Jul 2024