“Maramanah” - Cnr Darlinghurst Road And Elizabeth Bay Road - Potts a Point

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“Maramanah” Darlinghurst

Built 1882   Demolished 1954

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[Note: City of Sydney says Maramanah was built in the 1860s; the council’s 2010 heritage assessment traces it to the early 1840s, with E. J. Sparke adding the tower, south wing and verandah after buying it in 1885. It was bought by the council in 1943 and demolished in 1954; its site became part of Fitzroy Gardens.]

 

“Maramanah” - Cnr Darlinghurst Road, Macleay Street & Elizabeth Bay Road - Potts Point NSW

At a glance

• Address: 64 Macleay Street, Potts Point (Kings Cross), at Darlinghurst Road and Elizabeth Bay Road
• Built: 1860s (City of Sydney); the heritage assessment gives early-1840s origins, enlarged by Edward Joseph Sparke from 1885
• People: long the home of the Hollander family, remembered in Robin Eakin’s 1965 memoir Aunts up the Cross
• Fate: bought by the City of Sydney in 1943; demolished 1954; site became part of Fitzroy Gardens (El Alamein Fountain 1961)

Sources

• City of Sydney – History of Fitzroy Gardens
• Dictionary of Sydney – Maramanah
• City of Sydney – Fitzroy Gardens heritage assessment (2010)