“Yaralla” - Dame Edauth

 

“Yaralla”

Brush Farm House - 19 Lawson Street - Eastwood - Sydney - New South Wales

 

"Brush Farm House" - 19 Lawson Street - Eastwood - New South Wales 

This Is One Of Australia's Oldest Houses And Is One Of A Few That Survived From The Macquarie Period. 

The House Was Originally Built In The 1820's, Following The Purchase Of The Brush Farm Estate In 1807. 

 The Verandahs Were Added In The 1880's.

In The First Half Of The 19th Century, The Estate Was Famous For Its Vineyard & Wine Production. 

The House Was Also Known As Home For Boys, Eastwood Home For Mother's & Babies, Brush Farm For Mentally Deficient Children, & Brush Farm Girl's Home. 

In 1988 The Property Was Transferred To The Department Of Corrective Services & As The Brush Farm Corrective Services Academy Offers Training For Corrections Officers. 

In 1990, The Land Was Bought By Ryde Municipal Council And Restoration Of The House Began In May 2006, At An Estimated Cost Over $5 Million. It Now Serves Now As A Community Facility, Exhibition & Meeting Venue. 

“Holtermann” Mansion - Lavender Bay - NSW

Holtermann’s Mansion (“The Towers”) – Lavender Bay / North Sydney – NSW

(Correcting live “Holterman” / “Lavendar” / “Lavander”)

Boom-era Italianate mansion with viewing tower · Completed 1874–75 for Bernhardt Otto Holtermann · Demolished / encased mid-1930s within Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore)

Gold paid for the tower; the tower paid for the panorama. Holtermann’s Italianate pile above Lavender Bay was less a quiet villa than a camera platform — Charles Bayliss’s wet-plate harbour views from twenty-seven metres up still define colonial Sydney for many scrapbook readers. Shore School swallowed the site; the 1930s brick encasement finished what time had started. Spell the man’s name with two n’s.

At a glance

• Name: The Towers (North Sydney Council / contemporary press); live blog “Holterman Mansion”
• Location: ridge above Lavender Bay, near Blue and William Streets, North Sydney (At Home in North Sydney)
• Built: commenced wealth-phase move 1874; house completed 1875 (At Home); ADB: palatial house with tower completed 1874 on heights of St Leonards — keep 1874–75 range
• Builder / owner: Bernhardt Otto Holtermann (1838–1885) — gold miner, MLA St Leonards, photography patron
• Style: boom-era Italianate with dominant central tower (c.27 m vantage), verandahs, classical pilasters (At Home description)
• Famous use: platform for Charles Bayliss / Holtermann large-format harbour panoramas (Philadelphia 1876 etc.)
• After Holtermann: bought by Thomas Dibbs (of neighbouring Graythwaite); sold to Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore)
• Fate: mid-1930s — house and tower encased in modern brickwork and essentially demolished (At Home); Shore campus occupies the ground
• Spelling fixes: Holtermann (not Holterman); Lavender Bay (not Lavendar/Lavander)

Site & setting

North Sydney / St Leonards heights overlooking Lavender Bay and the harbour — Cammeraygal Country. Holtermann first occupied sprawling St Leonards Lodge at Crows Nest, then built The Towers on the ridge. Neighbouring Graythwaite (Dibbs) frames the later sale story. The tower’s purpose was photography as much as display: views north-east and north-west as well as the famous harbour sweep (At Home).

Timeline

• 1838 – Bernhardt Otto Holtermann born Hamburg (ADB).
• 1858–59 – Arrives Australia; meets Beyers; Hill End / Hawkins Hill years.
• 19–20 Oct 1872 – Star of Hope / Holtermann specimen — world’s largest reef-gold specimen tradition (ADB: 630 lb / 286 kg). Soft: some popular pages round wealth to “1871”.
• c.1871–74 – Leaves active prospecting; Sydney years; St Leonards Lodge then mansion project.
• 1874–75 – The Towers built/completed; stained-glass window of Holtermann with the “nugget” (ADB).
• 1875 – Bayliss panoramas from the unfinished/finished tower; claimed among largest wet-plate photographs.
• 1876 / 1878 – Exhibition medals Philadelphia / Paris (ADB).
• 1882–85 – MLA for St Leonards; advocates North Shore progress and a harbour bridge contribution (ADB).
• 29 Apr 1885 – Dies on his 47th birthday; buried St Thomas’s (ADB).
• Post-1885 – Dibbs purchase; sale to Shore School.
• Mid-1930s – Mansion/tower encased / demolished into school fabric (At Home).
• Live blog 2021-03 – Single historic image stub, misspelt title.

Architecture & interiors

Italianate mansion typical of mining-magnate display: central tower with Corinthian-suggestion pilasters, verandah cast iron, decorative masonry (At Home). Interiors sparsely described in consulted sources — contemporary papers called it fit for a nobleman (Singleton Argus 27 Oct 1875, cited At Home). Stained-glass self-portrait with the specimen is the signature interior anecdote (ADB). Prefer SLNSW exterior/panorama plates over inventing room schedules.

People & anecdotes

Bernhardt Otto Holtermann — German-born miner-made-good; Hill End partner of Beyers; MLA; immigrant-publicist via photography. Charles Bayliss (and earlier Beaufoy Merlin) — the cameras behind the Holtermann Collection. Thomas Dibbs — Graythwaite neighbour; intermediary owner. Shore School — long custodian of the site after the mansion’s erasure.

Image gallery guidance

1. Keep live historic mansion/tower photograph.

2. SLNSW: The Towers shortly after completion 1875 (drive unfinished) — At Home hero image.

3. Bayliss panorama sections from the tower (Lavender Bay / Milsons Point).

4. Holtermann with specimen / stained-glass tradition illustrations.

5. Modern Shore campus view of the site (what replaced it) — label clearly as successor fabric.

What stands today

The Towers does not stand as a readable mansion. The Shore School campus occupies the Lavender Bay ridge site; mid-1930s brick encasement destroyed the Italianate house and tower. Remember the place through the Holtermann Collection at the State Library of NSW and through surviving panorama plates — not through a house museum.

Sources & further reading

• At Home in North Sydney (North Sydney Council) — ‘The Towers’: https://www.athomeinnorthsydney.com.au/the-towers.html
• ADB — Holtermann, Bernhardt Otto (1838–1885): https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/holtermann-berhardt-otto-3787
• State Library of NSW — Holtermann Collection
• Live post (misspelt URL retained): https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2021/03/holterman-mansion-lavendar-bay-nsw.html
• Wikipedia — Bernhardt Holtermann (portal; verify against ADB / At Home)

Related on this blog

• Graythwaite / North Sydney ridge houses — search labels
• Holtermann Collection / photography scrap posts if present
• Other demolished Lavender Bay / Milsons Point mansions

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“Mundarrah Towers” - Clovelly Beach - New South Wales

Mundarrah Towers – Burnie Street / Little Coogee (Clovelly) – NSW

Castellated marine villa · Core mid-19th century; towers added c.1874–76 · Demolished mid-1920s (sources 1923 / 1926) — Clovelly Hotel later on part of the estate

Before Clovelly had a tram, a hotel, or even its modern name, the western head of the bay was dominated by a castellated pile called Mundarrah Towers. The live blog post is almost pure photograph — keep every image; this scrapbook puts a researched spine under them without inventing an architect or a single demolition day.

At a glance

• Location: Land around Burnie Street, overlooking the western end of Clovelly Bay (then Little Coogee); Mundarrah Street remembers the house (Randwick Council)
• Earlier names on the same ground: Rockbrook / Rock Brook (Dr Dickson / Dixon); Aberburnie (John Campbell) (Randwick ourstory / Bennett research)
• Grand phase: Samuel Bennett (proprietor, Australian Town and Country Journal / Evening News world) bought August 1874; towers and renovations c.1874–76; family in residence from 1877 (Bennett research)
• Style: Castellated / towered marine villa absorbing an earlier homestead (Randwick / Bennett)
• Estate: c.20 acres at purchase (Bennett); subdivided from c.1908–1910 as Little Coogee Beach Estate etc.
• Fate: Demolished mid-1920s — 1926 (Randwick Council / ourstory) or 1923 (Bennett site / some secondary); Clovelly Hotel from 1925 on part of the former estate (Randwick / Bennett)
• Heritage today: Demolished — street name + photographs only

Site & setting

Gadigal / Bidjigal coastal Country — fishing and camping country later called Little Coogee, then Clovelly (name change associated with 1913 progress-association campaign; Wikipedia / Randwick). In 1834 William Charles Greville paid £40 for 20 acres on the beachfront; Greville Street remembers him (Randwick ourstory).

Through the nineteenth century the head of the bay was dominated by one grand estate. Mundarrah Towers sat on the slopes overlooking the western end of the bay around today’s Burnie Street. Neighbouring Gordon’s Bay held Cliffbrook (Thompson; later Commonwealth Bank governor; substantially demolished 1976) — another lost coastal mansion in the same Randwick story (Randwick Council).

Timeline

• 1834 – W. C. Greville purchases 20 acres at Little Coogee cove for £40 (Randwick ourstory).
• 1853 / 1860s – Dr Dickson / Dixon builds a mansion (Rockbrook / Rock Brook) with elaborate gardens; later first returning officer for Randwick municipal elections 1859 (Bennett: 1853; Randwick historic suburbs: “1860s”; ourstory: Dixon then sales chain).
• 1860 / 1866 – Sold toward John Campbell; renamed Aberburnie (ourstory: 1860; Bennett: 1866 — soft flag).
• 1872 – George Renwick purchase (Bennett); quickly on to Samuel Bennett.
• Aug 1874 – Samuel and Eliza Bennett purchase ~20 acres with homestead, stables, coach-house and dairy as retirement marine villa (Bennett research).
• 1874–76 – Renovations; towers added; estate expanded 1875–77; Bennetts move in 1877 (Bennett).
• 1878 – Samuel dies while landscaping on the estate; Eliza mistress until 1886 (Bennett).
• 1886–88 – Mundarrah Towers Trust; consolidation by Alfred Bennett 1888; Alfred forced to sell 1895 (Bennett).
• 1908–1910 – Disposal / subdivision of Mundarrah Estate; Walter Lumley buys The Towers 1910; Little Coogee Beach Estate Section 1 sale 1910 (Bennett).
• 1913 – Locality name Clovelly gains currency (Wikipedia / Randwick).
trong>Mid-1920s – Towers demolished (1923 Bennett / some scrapbooks; 1926 Randwick Council & ourstory).
• 1925–present – Clovelly Hotel on part of the former estate ground (Randwick / Bennett).
• Today – Mundarrah Street; hotel and suburban Clovelly; photographs in SLNSW / local collections.

Architecture & interiors

Period photographs show a multi-towered, castellated marine villa — stone or rendered walls, steep roofs, and the “towers” that gave the place its later name after Bennett’s 1870s works absorbed the earlier Dickson/Campbell house (Randwick: Bennett “absorbing Dixon’s original house”). No consulted source names an architect for the tower phase — leave blank rather than guess. Interiors are poorly documented in the public web sources used here; prefer captioned album views over invented room schedules.

People & anecdotes

Samuel Bennett — newspaper proprietor linked to The Australian Town and Country Journal and the Evening News circle; bought Little Coogee ground as a quiet retirement seat six miles from the CBD (Bennett research / Randwick). Eliza Bennett ran the house after Samuel’s 1878 death until 1886. Later Bennett-family tenure (Alfred; trust; forced sale) and early twentieth-century subdivision turned one marine villa into the street grid Clovelly knows.

Randwick Council’s suburban history still treats Mundarrah Towers and Cliffbrook as the “hidden heritage” of the northern coastal suburbs — grand houses erased for hotel, flats, and tram-era streets.

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Live post is image-led — keep, sequence, and caption; do not invent URLs.

1. Exterior / towers from the bay or Burnie Street approach (live post)

2. Garden / estate slopes toward Little Coogee

3. Alexander Sutherland view of Little Coogee c.1870–80> (State Library Victoria — Bennett site credit)

4. Subdivision / Clovelly Hotel era contrast

5. Mundarrah Street nameplate / modern bay — memory without the house

What stands today

Nothing of the mansion. Clovelly Hotel (from 1925), Mundarrah Street, Burnie Street suburban fabric, and the bay itself. Pair with Randwick’s Cliffbrook story and other Eastern Beaches demolitions on this blog. Respect private property; photograph from public streets and the bay foreshore only.

Sources & further reading

• Randwick City Council — Historic suburbs (Clovelly / Mundarrah Towers): https://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/about-us/history/historic-places/historic-suburbs
• Randwick ourstory — “Clovelly 2031”: https://ourstory.randwick.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/2178
• Bennetts of the Evening News — Mundarrah Towers timeline: https://bennettsoftheeveningnews.com/residences/mundarrah-towers/mundarrah-towers-little-coogee-clovelly/
• Wikipedia — Clovelly, New South Wales (council-derived summary; check citations)
• Live post: https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2021/03/mundarrah-towers-clovelly-beach-new.html
• SLNSW / Trove — search Mundarrah Towers, Little Coogee, Clovelly Hotel

Related on this blog

• Cliffbrook – Coogee
• Clovelly – Watson’s Bay (different Clovelly — Sir John Robertson’s Vaucluse estate; do not conflate)
• Eastern Beaches / Randwick mansion posts — search labels

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“Kinneil” - Potts Point NSW

Originally Barnclueth - 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday 30 November 1937, page 13

Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday 30 November 1937, page 18

“Osterley” - Fitzroy Gardens - Potts Point

Osterley – 62 Macleay Street – Potts Point – NSW

Built mid-19th century (see date note) · Demolished 1927 · Site became the first stage of Fitzroy Gardens (landscaped 1939)

Osterley was the Macleay Street house whose clearance opened the first slice of today’s Fitzroy Gardens. Demolished in 1927, interim-used for miniature golf and tennis, it was resumed and landscaped in 1939 — originally to be named for Alderman Ernest Tresidder before politics delivered the Fitzroy name. The Paradise Theatre planned for this ground was never built.

At a glance

• Address: 62 Macleay Street, Potts Point (City of Sydney). ADB places the Broadhurst matrimonial house at 72 Macleay Street — reconcile before hardening a single number on a heritage plaque
• Built: City of Sydney park history — 1870s. City heritage assessment narrative — mid-1850s for barrister Edward Broadhurst. Do not invent a compromise year
• Early household: Edward Broadhurst (1810–1883), barrister (“father of the Bar”); wife Harriet Lucy, née Greenhill; marriage 7 May 1853; father-in-law Stephen Greenhill settled a Macleay Street house on them (ADB)
• Later: Daughter Frances Harriet inherits (1884 in heritage assessment); later private occupants include Sir Adrian Knox immediately before 1927 demolition (assessment caption)
• 1927: Minerva Centre Limited purchase reported at £25,000 in heritage assessment; house demolished 1927
• Interim uses: Tom Thumb Miniature Golf (early 1930s); Grimes’ Garage / commercial tennis with kiosk (late 1930s)
• Fate: Landscaped into Fitzroy Gardens 1939 (first stage); name shifted from Tresidder to Fitzroy (ward / Governor FitzRoy)

Site & setting

Part of Alexander Macleay’s 1841 Elizabeth Bay Estate subdivision — the same high Macleay Street band that held Maramanah and Tenilba. Osterley’s demolition created the first public open-space bite; Maramanah (1943 purchase, 1954 demolition) and Tenilba enlarged it.

Timeline

• 1853 – Edward Broadhurst marries Harriet Lucy Greenhill; ADB: Stephen Greenhill settles a house at 72 Macleay Street on them as matrimonial home (England visit 1859 excepted).
• mid-1850s / 1870s – Osterley fabric date: follow either the heritage-assessment mid-1850s Broadhurst association or the CoS “built in the 1870s” park page — both published; not silently merged.
• 1883 – Broadhurst dies (7 April); bronchial retirement from practice (ADB).
• 1884 – Heritage assessment: Frances Harriet inherits and lives on.
• March 1927 – Photographed vacant / immediately prior to demolition; Sir Adrian Knox recently vacated (CoS Archives image 1544 via heritage assessment).
• 1927 – Demolished after Minerva Centre Limited purchase (£25,000 in assessment). Paradise Theatre for Macleay Street never realised; Minerva Theatre proceeds on Orwell Street (1939).
• early 1930s – Tom Thumb Miniature Golf Course on the cleared site.
• late 1930s – Grimes Garage and commercial tennis / kiosk.
• 1939 – Resumed and landscaped as the first stage of what becomes Fitzroy Gardens (Tresidder name dropped).
• 1943–54 – Park enlarged via Maramanah / Tenilba (see Maramanah draft).
• Today – Fitzroy Gardens plaza and fountain precinct.

Architecture & interiors

Rate valuations cited in the heritage assessment describe neighbouring Greenhill/Broadhurst-band Macleay Street houses of the 1860s–70s as brick, three floors, about eight rooms — useful context, not a measured description of Osterley’s final form. The March 1927 photograph (CoS Archives) is the demolition-eve elevation to seek and caption.

People & anecdotes

Edward Broadhurst (ADB) Cambridge rebel who forfeited his degree rather than make a religious declaration; colonial barrister of large practice; duel controversy with Robert Lowe (1844–45); Legislative Council; never a judge despite being talked of as “father of the Bar. Osterley/Macleay Street was the domestic frame for that career.

Sir Adrian Knox — High Court Chief Justice; keen gardener; last private name attached to the house in the 1927 photo caption tradition.

David N. Martin / Minerva Centre — bought for a theatre dream (Paradise) that became a park instead — one of the Cross’s better near-misses.

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1. Keep / replace the single live-post image with a properly credited Osterley view if the present file lacks caption.

2. City of Sydney Archives image 1544 — Osterley, March 1927, pre-demolition.

3. ADB / library portraits of Edward Broadhurst.

4. Fitzroy Gardens formation plans and 1939 landscaping.

5. Compare: Maramanah and Tenilba — the three-house park story.

6. Minerva Theatre, Orwell Street — the theatre that was built when Paradise was not.

What stands today

Osterley is gone. Its ground is the original cell of Fitzroy Gardens at 60–64 Macleay Street. Stand by the El Alamein Fountain and read the park as demolished houses.

Sources & further reading

• City of Sydney History of Fitzroy Gardens: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/histories-local-parks-playgrounds/history-fitzroy-gardens
• City of Sydney Council — Fitzroy Gardens / Macleay Street heritage assessment (2010 agenda attachment PDF; Osterley section)
• ADB — Edward Broadhurst: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/broadhurst-edward-3057
• Dictionary of Sydney — Minerva Theatre / Metro Kings Cross (Paradise never built)
• Existing scrapbook post: https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2021/03/osterley-fitzroy-gardens-potts-point.html

Related on this blog

• Maramanah – Macleay Street – Potts Point
• Elizabeth Bay House
• Orwell House – Orwell Street
• Kinneil – Potts Point

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

 

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

Former St Peters Rectory – 188 Forbes Street – Darlinghurst – NSW

Former St Peters Rectory – 188 Forbes Street – Darlinghurst – NSW

Built c.1872–1873 · Architect not attributed here · Standing (RNE-listed former rectory)

On the triangle lot where Forbes Street meets Clapton Place — polychrome brick, steep patterned slate, cast-iron balcony, metal digits 188 on the sawtooth brick band — stands the house the Register of the National Estate recorded as St Peters Rectory (former). It was raised for the Anglican parish of St Peter’s (church by O. H. Lewis, 1866–67; hall by Benjamin Backhouse, 1873) and later returned to private residential use. Welcome to 188 Forbes Street — the rectory, not Barham inside SCEGGS, not the sandstone church/hall group at Bourke / St Peters Street, not Rose Hall under Horizon.

At a glance

• Address / site: 188 Forbes Street, corner Clapton Place, Darlinghurst NSW 2010 (RNE location note; live-post street number confirmed on facade)
• Built: c.1872–1873 (Wikipedia Darlinghurst heritage list / recent agent tradition 1872–73; City of Sydney Archives bond for awnings at 188 Forbes Street dated in the 1871 series — treat build window as early 1870s, not an exact day)
• Architect: not attributed for the rectory in sources used here — do not assume O. H. Lewis or Benjamin Backhouse without a primary credit (those names belong to the church and hall)
• Style: freestanding multi-storey Victorian Gothic villa; polychromatic patterned brickwork; steep gabled / patterned slate roof; elaborate patterned brick chimneys; delicate cast-iron cantilevered balcony; attic level; garage inserted at southern end 1947 (RNE)
• Original use: rectory for St Peter’s Church of England, Darlinghurst (parish church 1866–67 on Bourke / St Peters Street; hall 1873 on Forbes Street)
• Estate context: Edward Deas Thomson / Barham grant country; St Peter’s precinct assembled from mid-century lots; church purchased further Forbes Street terraces in 1924 for forecourt (separate from this rectory lot)
• Heritage status: Register of the National Estate place 1985 (registered 21 Mar 1978) as St Peters Rectory (former); noted on Wikipedia Darlinghurst heritage list; standing private house. The Sydney LEP item I300 “Former St Peter’s Church of England Group” is addressed at 159–163 Bourke / Forbes Street (church, hall, store) — do not casually merge lot numbers; rectory identity rests on the RNE sheet and street fabric
• Fate: standing; sold as renovated private residence (Aileen Sage Architects upgrade cited in 2025 marketing)

Site & setting

Forbes Street here is the lower Darlinghurst ridge edge toward the old St Peter’s parish — Barham and SCEGGS upslope, Clapton Place / Farrell Avenue toward the Rosebank and Rose Hall flat precinct, Bourke Street carrying the sandstone church that is now SCEGGS Great Hall. The rectory’s triangle lot and Clapton Place corner give it a freestanding silhouette rare among the terrace walls.

Live-post photographs (nine images) are mostly close fabric: Tudor-rose sandstone stops, cream-and-red arched window surrounds, sawtooth brick channel, balcony soffit, and the metal 188 — enough to lock the address to the polychrome Gothic villa the RNE described. Keep captions; do not invent a different mansion behind the number.

Timeline

• Jan 1835 – Edward Deas Thomson grant recorded; Barham built early 1840s (still inside SCEGGS); mid-century subdivision creates the Forbes / St Peters Street lots (Heritage NSW St Peter’s group history).
• 1866–67 – St Peter’s Church built (O. H. Lewis); vestry additions later (Wikipedia / SHR church precinct).
• 1869–1870 – Church buys adjoining Forbes Street lots; some already house-occupied (group history).
• 1871 series – City of Sydney Archives: bond for awnings at 188 Forbes Street (early address evidence).
• c.1872–1873 – Rectory raised in Victorian Gothic polychrome brick (RNE description; build years from secondary heritage list / agent tradition). Church hall by Benjamin Backhouse, 1873, on Forbes Street (separate building).
• 1924 – Church purchases five Forbes Street terraces and demolishes them for entry/forecourt to the church (Wikipedia) — precinct change, not demolition of 188.
• 1947 – Garage incorporated at southern end (RNE).
• 21 Mar 1978 – Register of the National Estate registration as St Peters Rectory (former), place ID 1985.
• 1993 – St Peter’s Church closed and sold to SCEGGS (Great Hall / Playhouse) — rectory’s later private life is separate from the school’s church conversion.
• 2020s – House marketed and sold as renovated freestanding residence; street number and polychrome fabric unchanged.

Architecture & interiors

The RNE sheet is the architectural spine: three-storey brick residence with attic; patterned walls and patterned slate roof; facade enlivened by a delicate cast-iron cantilevered balcony at first-floor level; very steep gable roof with elaborate patterned brick chimneys; 1947 garage at the southern end. Significance text calls it a fascinating example of polychromatic patterned brickwork in a quaint Victorian villa, Gothic style suited to rectory use, contributing to the lower Forbes Street / Clapton Place streetscape.

Live images match that reading — cream/red voussoirs, floral sandstone label stops, sawtooth recessed brick, balcony timber soffit. Do not invent interior inventories or an architect name for the rectory.

People & anecdotes

This house’s identity is parochial before personal: built as the dwelling for St Peter’s clergy while the sandstone church and Forbes Street hall served the congregation. Parish associations recorded for the church precinct (Charles Kemp, Henry Connell, Lebbeus Hordern, Patrick White among later church-linked names) belong to the worship story — cite them as precinct colour, not as proven rectory residents, unless a directory entry is in hand.

Edward Deas Thomson’s Barham grant is the deeper land layer; SCEGGS’s later ownership of the church/hall is a neighbour story. The rectory’s twentieth-century private chapters (including the 1947 garage and recent architectural upgrade) explain why the polychrome villa still faces Forbes Street when so much parish housing was cleared for the 1924 forecourt.

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Do not invent historic photo URLs — keep existing live-post images; captions and sequence guidance below for the merge pass.

Preserve all nine live images (detail-heavy). Suggested caption order:

1–2. Sandstone floral / Tudor-rose label stops — Gothic stop on polychrome brick.

3–4. Arched window with cream/red voussoirs and balcony soffit — Cast-iron balcony above; RNE facade reading.

5. Metal street number 188 on sawtooth brick band — Address locked to the rectory villa.

6–9. Further brick / iron / roof details from live set — keep any existing captions; add credit if City Archives / agent photos are mixed in.

Also search: AHDB photo database for place 1985; City of Sydney Archives Demolition Books only if wrongly filed — this house stands.

What stands today

The former rectory stands at 188 Forbes Street as a private house. Walk the Clapton Place corner for the gables and balcony; continue to SCEGGS Great Hall (former St Peter’s Church) and Playhouse (former hall) for the parish set; glance to Barham inside the school grounds and to Horizon for Rose Hall’s vacant sky.

• Map pin: 188 Forbes Street, Darlinghurst (cnr Clapton Place).
• Do not treat LEP I300’s 159–163 address as this lot without a current inventory sheet that explicitly includes 188.
• Do not confuse with Barham (215 Forbes Street tradition / SCEGGS) or Belgrave Terrace further along Forbes.

Sources & further reading

• Australian Heritage Database — St Peters Rectory (former), 188 Forbes St, Darlinghurst (RNE place 1985): https://environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=1985
• Heritage NSW — Former St Peter’s Church of England Group (LEP I300 / database 2420326) — precinct context only: https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2420326
• Wikipedia — St Peter’s Church, Darlinghurst (church/hall architects and 1924 forecourt)
• Wikipedia — Darlinghurst (heritage list entry for 188 Forbes Street: St Peters Rectory (former))
• City of Sydney Archives — bond for awnings at 188 Forbes Street (1871 series record)
• Existing scrapbook post: https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2021/03/188-forbes-street-darlinghurst-nsw.html

Related on this blog

• Barham – Darlinghurst (Deas Thomson / SCEGGS neighbour)
• Rose Hall – Forbes Street – Darlinghurst – DEMOLISHED
• Rosebank – Darlinghurst (Farrell Avenue / Clapton Place estate geography)
• Stoneleigh – Darley Street – Darlinghurst
• Iona – 2 Darley Street – Darlinghurst
• Craigend – Darlinghurst – Demolished 1922
• Original Villas of Darlinghurst

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Salvation Army Hostel - South Dowling Street - Surry Hills

The Iconic Salvation Army Hostel, On South Dowling Street, At Moore Park. 

This Picture Was Taken In 1927

 

History of Darlinghurst

Originally  the great Valley Of Darlinghurst was originally subdivided by Governor Ralph Darling in the mid 1820s when he created 17 allotments of land parcels to house public servants and other private citizens.

With the 17 land grants that Governor Darling  allowed he had strict conditions regarding that there could only be one dwelling per allotment, that each each dwelling should be built facing the city along the ridge, and that the land should have landscaped gardens around.

This changed the whole topography of the area when you sailed into Sydney harbour and Port Jackson  made a great difference from what people could see. It also gave a very strong impression of the colony and the prosperity that you could gain as a free settlers coming to Australia.

it was a very strong a pointer of what you could gain by coming to Australia it was also very strong reminder of what you could also lose

 

“Innisfallen Castle” - 14 Cherry Place, Castle Cove

Castle Cove  Was Named After This Landmark Building. It Occupies 8,333sqm Of Lush Park Like Grounds. 

Completed in 1904 By A Prominant Politician, Henry Hastings Willis, & Is A Magnificent example Of Perpendicular    Gothic Architecture. 

The Castle Showcases Lavish Sandstone And Takes The Name “Innisfallen  Castle” (Or “Island Of The Field”) From An Irish Castle In Killarney. 

There Are Currently 2 Existing Buildings

- The Castle Itself 

- Guest Wing / Domestic Staff Living Quarters

“Goendower” - Ryde

“Lauriston” - Ryde

 “Lauriston”  Bowden Street & Victoria Road - Ryde - New South Wales  

“Lauriston” was built in the 1880’s  by James Johnson And Phillipina Shuttleworth and was located on the corner of Bowden Street And Victoria Road, Ryde. 

James, an Architect, wa related to Albert Bind, the Archistect Of. Choice for Anthony Horderns. 

The interior was ornately decorated and it had a ballroom reputed to be, the most beautiful around Sydney. 

James turned the grounds into a bird samctuary. I’m 1916 the property was subdivided and “Lauriston” was sold to Alfred and Jene Gorrie. Their Daughter aired, a Danci no 

“Cleves” - Charles Blaxland - Putney

  “Cleves” - Putney - New South Wales 

“Cleves” was built In the 1850’s by Charles Blaxland and his wife Elizabeth. It was located in the wedge between Charles Street & Waterview Street, Putney. A house by the same name built by John Bayley had existed on the site previously. 

In 1917 the estate was sold to the Inter Colonial Biilding Company and the area around the house became the site  of the Kidman and Mayoh Shipbuilding Enterprise, the house being occupied by the new manager. The house was demolished in 1926. The site is currently occupied by housing 

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Stoneleigh – 1 / 1A Darley Street – Darlinghurst – NSW

Stoneleigh – 1 / 1A Darley Street – Darlinghurst – NSW

Built c.1860–1865 · Architect not attributed here · Standing (SHR #00187)

On the Darley Street ridge — opposite Iona, overlooking the old Woolloomooloo Heights villa belt — a two-storey Victorian Regency house with an arched colonnade and cast-iron palisade still carries its stone nameplate: STONELEIGH. Heritage NSW and the Sydney LEP place it at 1 / 1A Darley Street, built around 1860–1865, one of the mid-Victorian villas that survived the flat boom. Welcome to Stoneleigh — not Iona across the road; not a demolished Heights grant villa.

At a glance

• Address / site: 1 Darley Street (also 1A), Darlinghurst NSW 2010; Lot 13 DP 611068 (DoS / Heritage NSW ~−33.8776, 151.2195)
• Built: c.1860–1865 (Heritage NSW construction years; LEP / Tingle tradition c.1860)
• Architect: not attributed in the State Heritage Inventory entry used here — do not invent
• Style: two-storey Victorian Regency villa; hipped corrugated-steel roof; first-floor bank of 12-pane double-hung windows; ground-floor arched colonnade (octagonal columns with moulded caps) extending along front and one side; articulated quoins; Victorian cast-iron palisade fence; stone and rendered brick
• Original / early owners: tradition links first build to solicitor William Barker (LEP / Tingle); early occupancy also documented for Edward Brooking Cornish and wife Margaret (both died at Stoneleigh, late 1866; estate sale Jan 1867) — conflict left visible
• Famous later chapter: banker Richard Jones (Maitland Mercury; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney) 1870–1892; Sir J. Russell French (Bank of NSW GM) c.1895–1905; boarding house (Henry Tongue from 1907); Marist Brothers school property from 1912; private again after 1968 sale; briefly also known as Greencourt
• Heritage status: NSW State Heritage Register #00187 (gazetted 2 Apr 1999; former PCO 1981); Sydney LEP 2012 I272 (house including interior, front fence and grounds); Register of the National Estate (1978)
• Fate: standing as a private residence

Site & setting

Darley Street sits on the Darlinghurst ridge south of William Street — the same Heights country that once held Craigend, Rosebank, Rose Hall and Barham. Stoneleigh occupies a compact freestanding lot facing Darley Street, with the colonnade and palisade reading as a mid-Victorian villa front rather than a terrace row. Directly opposite stands Iona (2 Darley Street, SHR #00176) — keep the two posts separate.

The live scrapbook on this blog is a single stone nameplate photograph: STONELEIGH cut into ashlar. That plaque, the Heritage NSW pin at 1 Darley Street, and the LEP listing of fence and grounds are the identity spine. Do not confuse this house with demolished southern-ridge villas (Rosebank, Rose Hall, Craigend) or with Barham inside the SCEGGS Forbes Street campus.

Timeline

• c.1860–1865 – Villa constructed (Heritage NSW construction years). LEP / Tingle tradition: built c.1860, probably for solicitor William Barker (Norton, Son and Barker; Irish-born 1815, arrived 1830).
• 1866–15 Jan 1867 – Alternate early chapter (Heritage NSW citing respondent on Tingle): Edward Brooking Cornish and wife Margaret die at Stoneleigh (Oct / Nov 1866, “Gulf Fever”); estate auction advertised Dec 1866, held 15 Jan 1867.
• From 1870 – Richard Jones (Maitland Mercury founder; Commercial Banking Company of Sydney chairman in the heritage significance statement) holds Stoneleigh; dies at the house 25 Aug 1892 (Tingle / Heritage NSW).
• c.1879–1882 – John Rae photograph from neighbouring Hilton shows Stoneleigh with timber shingle roof and single-storey rear additions (SLNSW / Heritage NSW note).
• 1895–c.1905 – Sir J. Russell French, General Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, in residence (LEP / Heritage NSW); society dance of 250 guests written up 1901 (conservatory palms; arum-lily frieze — contemporary press via Trove citation in Heritage NSW).
• From 1907 – Boarding house under Henry Tongue (LEP / Tingle).
• 1912–1968 – Part of Marist Brothers school property (adjacent building later Alexandra Flats); used as storehouse; storm roof damage remembered in late fabric notes (Tingle / Heritage NSW).
• Briefly – Also known as Greencourt (Wikipedia / heritage alternate name).
• After 1968 – Returned to private residential use; mid–late 1980s ownership associated with broadcaster Phillip Adams (Heritage NSW citing public comments); sold 1990.
• 11 Sep 1981 / 2 Apr 1999 – Permanent Conservation Order then SHR listing #00187.
• 14 Dec 2012 – Sydney LEP 2012 item I272.
• 2010s–2020s – Periodic market appearances; still standing opposite Iona on Darley Street.

Architecture & interiors

Forget inventing a cedar inventory. Prefer the statutory description.

Heritage NSW / LEP: a freestanding two-storey Victorian Regency villa of stone and rendered brick; hipped corrugated-steel roof; first floor with a bank of 12-paned timber double-hung windows; ground floor arched colonnade on octagonal masonry columns with moulded caps, continuing along one side; articulated quoins; Victorian cast-iron palisade fence. The Register of the National Estate note (via Heritage NSW) adds six-pane sashes, decorated upper lintels, three-centred arches lined as ashlar, and balanced chimneys. Listing includes interior, front fence and grounds (LEP 2012).

No architect is named on the SHR / LEP sheets used for this draft. Do not credit Verge, Hallen, Blacket or anyone else without a primary attribution.

People & anecdotes

William Barker is the first-build candidate in the LEP / Tingle tradition — solicitor, East Sydney candidate who lost to Henry Parkes, partner in Norton, Son and Barker — but the Cornish estate sale of 1866–67 means the earliest occupancy ladder is not a single clean line. Leave both trails visible.

Richard Jones (1870–1892) anchors the banking-and-press chapter: Maitland Mercury founder and Commercial Banking Company of Sydney chairman in the heritage significance statement; he died inside Stoneleigh in August 1892. Sir J. Russell French then brought Bank of New South Wales general-management society life to the house into the early 1900s. The Marist Brothers decades explain why so many Heights villas vanished while this one stayed — institutional reuse, then private rescue after 1968.

Keep Phillip Adams (and later film-location anecdotes) as late modern colour only; they are not the colonial identity of the house.

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Do not invent historic photo URLs — keep existing live-post images; captions and sequence guidance below for the merge pass.

1. Live-post stone nameplate — STONELEIGH

Already on the scrapbook post. Caption idea: Name still on the wall — 1 Darley Street.

2. Heritage NSW / LEP facade — colonnade and palisade

Search: Heritage NSW item 5045586 thumbnails; City of Sydney imagery. Caption idea: Arched colonnade, octagonal columns, cast-iron fence.

3. John Rae view from Hilton, c.1879–82

Search: SLNSW (Heritage NSW cited ADLIB record for Rae / Hilton / Darlinghurst). Caption idea: Shingle roof and rear lean-tos — neighbour’s camera.

4. 1981 / 1985 fabric photographs (Tingle / Heritage NSW notes)

Search: My Darling Darlinghurst Stoneleigh posts; Heritage NSW history. Caption idea: School-storehouse years to painted private house.

5. Compare set: Iona opposite; Barham (SCEGGS); Rosebank / Rose Hall sites; Craigend

Search: existing blog posts. Caption idea: Same ridge — different fates.

What stands today

Stoneleigh stands. Walk Darley Street and read the nameplate; the colonnade and palisade still mark a mid-Victorian villa lot opposite Iona. It is a private residence — no public museum hours. Pair the visit with Iona’s gates across the street, Barham inside SCEGGS on Forbes Street, and the street-name ghosts of Rosebank and Rose Hall.

• Address for the map: 1 / 1A Darley Street, Darlinghurst.
• Do not merge this post with Iona (2 Darley Street).
• Do not hunt Stoneleigh under the demolished Rosebank / Rose Hall footprints on Farrell Avenue / Horizon.

Sources & further reading

• Heritage NSW — Stoneleigh (SHR #00187 / database 5045586): https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045586
• Sydney LEP 2012 — Item I272 (House “Stoneleigh” including interior, front fence and grounds)
• Register of the National Estate — Stoneleigh (cited via Heritage NSW / Wikipedia)
• Violet Tingle — ‘Darlinghurst: Heritage Items: Stoneleigh’ (8 Oct 2010): http://mydarlingdarlinghurst.blogspot.com/2010/10/8-darlinghurst-heritage-items.html
• ADB — ‘Jones, Richard (–)’ (Maitland Mercury / CBC Sydney trail): https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jones-richard-2281
• ADB — ‘French, Sir John Russell’: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/french-sir-john-russell-406
• Wikipedia (secondary, SHR-derived): Stoneleigh, Darlinghurst
• Existing scrapbook post: https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2020/03/stoneleigh-darley-street-darlinghurst.html

Related on this blog

• Iona – 2 Darley Street – Darlinghurst (opposite house — keep separate)
• Barham – Darlinghurst (Heights ridge survivor, SCEGGS)
• Rosebank – Darlinghurst (demolished southern-ridge neighbour)
• Rose Hall – Forbes Street – Darlinghurst – DEMOLISHED
• Craigend – Darlinghurst – Demolished 1922
• 188 Forbes Street – Darlinghurst (former St Peters Rectory)
• Original Villas of Darlinghurst
• History of Darlinghurst

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Iona – 2 Darley Street – Darlinghurst – NSW

Iona – 2 Darley Street – Darlinghurst – NSW

Built c.1888 (present house) · Architect not attributed here · Standing (SHR #00176)

At the end of Darley Street — wrought-iron gates, sandstone fence, Moreton Bay fig toward Tewkesbury Avenue — pastoralist Edward Chisholm replaced an earlier timber Iona Cottage with a late Victorian Italianate mansion that kept the name. Private hospital decades (Wootton / Winchester / Hughlings) saved it from the flat boom; National Trust and State Heritage listings locked the fabric; later chapters include Sir Allen Taylor’s household rename to Wootton, then filmmakers Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin. Welcome to Iona — not Stoneleigh across the road; not a demolished Heights grant villa.

At a glance

• Address / site: 2 Darley Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010; also frontage to Tewkesbury Avenue; Part Lot 92 DP 1015067 (Heritage NSW ~−33.8773, 151.2200)
• Built: present house c.1888 (Heritage NSW; construction window also given as 1880–1888); replaced earlier single-storey timber Iona Cottage (name first listed 1872)
• Architect: not attributed in the State Heritage Inventory entry used here — do not invent
• Style: two-storey (with basement) late Victorian Italianate villa; rendered brick; slate roof; two-storey verandah / balcony with elaborate cast iron; ornate cornices; remnant garden and sandstone boundary wall
• Original owner (present house): Edward Chisholm (merchant / pastoralist), purchased Oct 1888; family to his death 1898
• Earlier cottage chapter: Elizabeth Grose land (from 1845 subdivision of William Long’s 1835 grant); Richard Jones occupant 1866–69; Robert Carter from 1872 (“Iona Cottage”); sold 1879, nine-lot subdivision; Carter to 1884
• Famous later chapter: Adela / Sir Allen Taylor purchase 1908 as Wootton; private hospital 1912–1977 (Wootton → Winchester → Hughlings); 1970s tower DA averted; restored as dwelling from 1980s; Baz Luhrmann & Catherine Martin tenancy then ownership
• Heritage status: NSW SHR #00176 (gazetted 2 Apr 1999; former PCO 1981); Sydney LEP item 332 (Heritage NSW listings table); National Trust; Register of the National Estate #01979; Darley Street Group context
• Fate: standing as a private residence

Site & setting

Iona sits at the southern end of its irregular lot, principal northern elevation toward Tewkesbury Avenue, entry gates from Darley Street. Heritage NSW describes a high sandstone fence, cast-iron palisade gates, grassed front yard with mature trees, circular driveway, and a grotto-style garden feature — remnant garden after hospital wings and nurses’ quarters came and went. Across Darley Street stands Stoneleigh (1 / 1A) — same ridge, different house, different SHR number. Keep the blog posts separate.

The land story begins with William Long’s August 1835 grant of just over five acres; James Wright’s 1836 lease; Elizabeth Grose’s 1845 purchase of the fashionable Heights parcel that later carried the cottage name Iona. Chisholm’s 1888 rebuild is the mansion in the photographs — not the shingled cottage Robert Carter enlarged in the 1870s.

Timeline

• Aug 1835 – Grant of just over five acres to William Long (Heritage NSW).
• 1836 / 1845 – James Wright leases; subdivision; Elizabeth Grose purchases the Iona parcel.
• 1866–1869 – Occupant Richard Jones in Mrs Grose’s house (Heritage NSW — do not conflate automatically with Stoneleigh’s later Jones chapter without deeds).
• 1872 – First listing of the name Iona Cottage; occupant Robert Carter.
• 1879–1884 – Grose sells; land subdivided into nine lots; Carter extends cottage (iron roof replacing shingles); five-bedroom “gentleman’s residence” description at sale finance; Carter to 1884.
• Oct 1888 – Edward Chisholm purchases; builds the present two-storey Iona; resides until death 1898; property to Perpetual Trustee Co.
• 1906 – Street renamed Darley Street (Sir Frederick Darley tradition); address becomes 2 Darley Street.
• Mar 1908 – Adela Taylor (wife of Sir Allen Taylor, timber merchant and Lord Mayor; Taylor Square namesake) purchases; renames house Wootton.
• Dec 1912 – Sold to Eliza Hyem; leased and converted to Wootton Private Hospital (psychiatric); operating theatre block before 1919; Jessie Robertson owner 1918; further nurse purchasers 1920/1927.
• 1935–1939 – Two-storey wing beside theatre; nurses’ residence north of house; 27 bedrooms by 1939.
• 1949–1977 – Winchester then Hughlings Private Hospital; major 1969 alterations (verandahs enclosed; doors modified for Board of Health).
• 1973–1979 – Developer assembly and high-rise consent (Iona to be strata); finance fails; National Trust classifies Iona within Darley Street Group (1976); RNE listing 1978.
• Dec 1979 onward – Jesseme P/L / John Rutherford restores name Iona and fabric; Heritage Council grant; nurses’ quarters demolished 1984; single dwelling approved 1980.
• 1994–2016 – Gowrie-Smith sale 1994; Luhrmann & Martin lease from 1997, purchase 2006 (~$10m); sold early 2016 (~$16m tradition in Domain reporting).
• 2 Apr 1999 – SHR #00176.
• Today – Standing private residence; gates and sandstone wall still the street face.

Architecture & interiors

Prefer Heritage NSW and the Register of the National Estate summary over invented room schedules.

The present house is a freestanding two-storey late Victorian Italianate villa of rendered brick with slate roof and two-storey verandah / balcony. The RNE description highlights elaborate cast-iron verandah and balcony work, original cedar joinery including a large staircase, and a fine stained-glass landing window depicting Australian flora and wildlife. Heritage NSW stresses highly ornate cornices as a rare high-quality detail and notes that much joinery was reconstructed after institutional use. Hospital wings, enclosed verandahs and nurses’ quarters were later stripped or demolished in the 1980s restoration.

No architect is named on the SHR sheet used here. Do not invent one.

People & anecdotes

Edward Chisholm is the builder of the mansion you photograph — wealthy merchant-pastoralist who kept the cottage’s name on a larger house. The Taylor chapter (1908–1912) links the house to Sir Allen Taylor’s timber fortune and mayoral years — the same Taylor who gives his name to Taylor Square — under the temporary house name Wootton.

The long hospital run (1912–1977) is why Iona survived when so many Darlinghurst mansions were cleared for flats between the wars. Matrons, nurses as freeholders, operating theatres and Board of Health door widths are part of the fabric story, not a digression. The 1970s tower threat and National Trust / Heritage Council rescue close the institutional loop; Rutherford’s restoration put the dwelling name back on the gate.

Late ownership colour (Luhrmann / Martin design restoration, later sales) belongs in the modern chapter — useful, but secondary to Chisholm, Taylor and the hospital spine.

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Do not invent historic photo URLs — keep existing live-post images; captions and sequence guidance below for the merge pass.

Live post already holds four images (gates / No. 2 pillar / ornate iron gates with crests). Preserve those captions and sequence.

1. Darley Street cast-iron gates / No. 2 pillar (live)

Caption idea: 2 Darley Street — Iona, not Stoneleigh.

2. Ornate double gates with central crests (live)

Caption idea: Victorian ironwork still the public face.

3. Heritage NSW / RNE facade and verandah

Search: Heritage NSW 5045573; AHDB place 1979. Caption idea: Italianate verandah — hospital years hid, restoration revealed.

4. Stained-glass landing window (Australian flora / wildlife)

Search: RNE description; Open House / Domain features. Caption idea: Cedar stair and native glass — interior claim from the RNE sheet.

5. Compare: Stoneleigh opposite; Barham; Rosebank site; hospital-era plans if found

Caption idea: Same street, different SHR numbers.

What stands today

Iona stands as a private residence. The Darley Street gates, sandstone wall and Tewkesbury Avenue fig still mark the lot. No public museum — Open House–style access has occurred by arrangement in some years, but do not assume open doors. Pair with Stoneleigh opposite, Barham at SCEGGS, and the Rosebank / Rose Hall street ghosts west toward Farrell Avenue and Horizon.

• Map pin: 2 Darley Street, Darlinghurst.
• Keep separate from Stoneleigh (1 / 1A Darley Street).
• Hospital aliases Wootton / Winchester / Hughlings are the same house, not different mansions.

Sources & further reading

• Heritage NSW — Iona (SHR #00176 / database 5045573): https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045573
• Australian Heritage Database — Iona, RNE place 1979: https://environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=1979
• City Plan Heritage — Heritage Impact Assessment, Iona, 2 Darley Street (July 2006) — cited throughout Heritage NSW history
• ADB — ‘Taylor, Sir Allen Arthur (1864–1940)’: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/taylor-sir-allen-arthur-8753
• Wikipedia (secondary, SHR-derived): Iona, Darlinghurst
• Existing scrapbook post: https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2020/03/iona-2-darley-street-darlinghurst-nsw.html

Related on this blog

• Stoneleigh – Darley Street – Darlinghurst (opposite house — keep separate)
• Barham – Darlinghurst
• Rosebank – Darlinghurst
• Rose Hall – Forbes Street – Darlinghurst – DEMOLISHED
• Craigend – Darlinghurst – Demolished 1922
• 188 Forbes Street – Darlinghurst (former St Peters Rectory)
• Original Villas of Darlinghurst
• History of Darlinghurst

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Colonial Secretary's Office - Macquarie Street - Sydney - New South Wales

Colonial Secretary's Office - Macquarie Street - Sydney - New South Wales