Eurambie Hall, 94 Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay, is part of the streetscape known to locals as the Elizabeth Bay Loop, a road which curves back on itself, looping itself around the Macleay Reserve.

It is a four-level apartment block of 15 units whose bricks are various colours with a terrazzo entrance steps, a rounded entranceway, pillars on the facade, a cloud-shaped covered porch in the Art Deco style and a patterned brick feature formation on the facade.

Many apartments contain their original internal pine floors.

The north-easterly facing windows cleverly capture the morning winter sun for maximum amenity.

It was designed probably in about the late 1930s, by John Reid and Sons, architects, who with Finlay Munro jnr. designed St Stephen’s church Macquarie Street Sydney CBD where Mr Reid was a church Elder. Reid and Sons also designed a series of homes for Canberra, Asbestos House, York and Barrack Streets, Sydney (together with Robertson and Marks) and many other buildings.

John Reid was an architect for 50 years, 40 years with his own firm. He had previously been a farmer and then a builder after emigrating from Scotland in 1883. He died in Mosman on 19^th October1936.

He leaves an important legacy on the Sydney skyline.

By Andrew Woodhouse

Heritage Solutions