Maranamah - DEMOLISHED - Cnr Macleay Street & Darlinghurst Road - Potts Point - New South Wales -

 
Maramanah - Corner Of Darlinghurst Road & Macleay St Potts Point

Maramanah - 64 Macelay street, was one of the Beautiful Grand Old Villas

1930 - Maramanah, 64 Macleay Street (now where the El Alamein Fountain is located) one of the great grand villas of Kings Cross. Built in the 1840s as a smaller villa and extended with a turret and endless balconies in the 1880s to form a much larger grand mansion. During WWII it was used as a recreational centre for the US Navy and then a Royal Navy Canteen. The mansion became severely decrepit after the war and was squatted in by several families during the late 40s and early 50s. The mansion was taken over by the council and demolished in 1954.

Fitzroy Gardens wasn’t always a public space. It was once home to at least three impressive homes and their grounds, one of which was Maramanah.

Built in the 1840s for shipping merchant Deloitte, Maramanah was soon sold to Anna Challis (familiar as yet another Kings Cross street name). It then passed through many owners, including the Hollander family who featured in Robin Dalton’s 1965 memoir “Aunts up the Cross”.

During the Second World War, Maramanah became a recreational centre for the US Navy and then a Royal Navy canteen. When the war was over, several returned servicemen and their families squatted in the 20-roomed mansion, demanding they be allowed to live in it. There was a lack of post-war housing, and the community supported them but the mood may have changed when it was alleged that Communist Party meetings were taking place inside.

Maranamanh was taken over by the City of Sydney, and operated as a hostel until the mansion and its grounds were added to the parcel of land from which Fitzroy Gardens was created and demolished in 1954.

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Old Home Damaged - Hebrew Standard of Australia -  Thu 20 Apr 1944   ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Protests On Streets Conduct - The Worker - Mon 1st May 1944 pg 7  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

News Friday 22 March 1946 Pg 3 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Squatter's Now 16 SMH -  Sat 23rd Mar 1946 Pg 3

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 West Australian - Tue 26 Mar 1946

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Squatters  Empty Mansion - Australian Worker - Wed 27 Mar 1946 pg 12 

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The Barrier Daily - Wednesday 27th March 1946 - Page 1 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

New Tenant For Seized Maramanah -The Daily News -  29 March  1946 pg 3

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 Worker - Mon 1 April 1946 pg 3 

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 Dubbo Liberal - Tues 9th April 1946 - Pg4 

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Column 8 Pieces

Column 8 - SMH Thurs 2nd March  1950 - Pg 1

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Colum 8 - Maramanah - Column8 Mon 27 March 1950 Pg1

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Column 8 - SMH Wed June 6 1951 - Pg 1

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Column 8 - SMH - Sat 14th Aug 1954 - Pg 1

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Sydney Morning Herald  - Tues 16 March 1948 pg 1

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 Thursday 21 March 1946 page 3

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 Daily News - Thurs 21 Mar 1946 Pg 1

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SMH Fri March 22 1946 - Pg 1 - Part 1

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Move into Maranamah Watched By Thousands SMH Sat 23 Mar 1946 pg1 

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Protest Over Mansion Demolition Sat 23 Mar 1946 pg 11

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News - Sat March 23rd 1946 Page 1

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Sydney Morning Herald - Mon 25th March 1946 Pg 4

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Property owners Alarmed - Canberra Times - Mon  25 march 1946 Pg1

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Maramanah Case -  Mon 25 Mar 1946 pg 2

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City Councils Offer - West Australian - Tue 26 Mar 1946

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Seized Mansion As Hostel - SMH Tue 26 Mar 1946, pg 3

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Premier Condemns Illegal House - Wed 27 Mar 1946 - Pg2

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Mansion Seized On Reds Advice - Daily News - Wed 27 March 1946 pg 12

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Communists Seize Mansion - Wed 27 Mar 1946 Page 1

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Coms Turn Squatters - Wortker - Mon 1 April 1946 pg 3 Part 1

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Maramanah Case Lapses - SMH Sat 6th Apr 1946 Pg 5

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 SMH - Tues 9th April 1946 Pg 5

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Communism - Dubbo Liberal - Tues 9th April 1946 - Pg4 

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Bad Laws Must Be Defied - Southern Mail - Fri 12 Apr 1946 pg 2 Part 2

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Bad Laws Must Be Defied - Southern Mail - Fri 12 Apr 1946 pg 2 

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Maramanah Man Wins Home - SMH - Fri 7 June 1946 - Pg 5

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SMH - Sat 15 June 1946 - Pg 3 Part 2

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SMH Wed 7th Aug 1946 - Pg 3

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Gardrens At The X - SMH Tues 16 March 1948 pg 1

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Plan For Ptts Pt Mansion - Daily Mirror - Tues 4 May 1948 - Pg 

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New Move On Old Mansiomn - Daily Mirror - Thur 16  1950 - pg 5

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 Daily Mirror - Thurs 12 Jan 1950 - Pg 11

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Alderman Move To Evict - Sun Herald - 29 Oct 1950 Pg 5 Pt 1

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SMH Wed 28th April 1954 - Pg 4

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Deadlock At Maramanah - Daily Mirror -  Mon 3 May 1954 pg 23

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Maranamah - Macleay Street - Potts Point - New South Wales - Truth -  Sunday 5 April 1953, page 46

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Demoltioin Reveals Wartime Paintings - Daily Telegraph Sun 24 Oct 1954 pg 11

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