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Dec 29, 2010 · It was a large compendium of about a dozen A2-sized Sydney city building maps, exquisitely and precisely illustrated. I took photographs of all the maps related to Darlinghurst and when I returned home and enlarged them on my computer, I was excited (yes, I was excited) to discover that the building at 40 Hardie Street, where I used to live, is called Meriden.
Residential flat buildings became a feature of the city's landscape from the early 1920s, and to some extent this occurred in Darlinghurst. Flats appeared in particular around the periphery near Kings Cross, behind Darlinghurst Road and around the corner of Liverpool and Forbes streets.
Darlinghurst Courthouse is an imposing heritage-listed sandstone building on Taylor Square. It was designed by architect Mortimer Lewis in 1844, and has a Greek Revival style facade. The central block is adapted from an 1823 design in Peter Nicholson 's The New Practical Builder (Apperly, Irving & Reynolds, 1989).
Apr 29, 2021 · Photo: City of Sydney archives Unique IDA-00040089. An 80-hectare triangle on the edge of Sydney’s CBD, the area now known as Darlinghurst, was long home to the Gadigal people who fished in the pools and cascades of Rushcutters Creek which flowed under what is now Boundary Street, down to the bay. Though they lived on its banks until at least ...
Sep 10, 2015 · The Sydney sandstone blockwork on the historical buildings and the adjacent Darlinghurst Gaol building are replicated on the podiums for the new buildings, while salvaged timber flooring from ...
Feb 27, 2021 · Darlinghurst Michael Koziol is Sydney Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, based in our Sydney newsroom. He was previously deputy editor of The Sun-Herald and a federal political reporter in Canberra.
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From the Archives, 1841: Darlinghurst Gaol opens. Construction was far from complete when Darlinghurst Gaol took in its first prisoners, 180 years ago. The lavishly imposing complex was, the ...
