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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Woollahra House House
Woollahra House II House
Woollamoola House House
Woolpack Hotel I Hotel
Woronora Hotel Hotel
Wybalena House
Wychwood House
Wynyard railway station Railway station
Wyoming Residential blockOffice block
Yamba cottage House
Yaralla house HouseHospital
Yarra Bay House HouseOffice block
Yarrawarrah Community Hall Hall
Yasmar house House
Yellow House House
YMCA Building Hall
York Street Synagogue Place of worship
Ysabel, Hunters Hill House
Yui Ming temple Alexandria Place of worship
Zanzibar Hotel
Zetland Mosque Place of worship

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Woollahra House

House built for Daniel Cooper in 1856 on the site of Henrietta Villa.

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House

Woollahra House II

House built for William Cooper in 1883 on the site of his father's former house of the same name.

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Woollamoola House

House constructed on Woolloomooloo Farm c1793.

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Woolpack Hotel I

Colonial inn sited on the south east corner of George and Marsden streets which was to become the site of the court house. It was rebuilt in 1889 on the south west corner.

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Hotel

Woronora Hotel

Early hotel in the Como area, which served the railway workers building the new line in the 1880s.

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Wybalena

Large Victorian style gentleman's residence.

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Wychwood

Home built in the Federation style for George McFarlane in 1901 in Ku-ring-gai Avenue Turramurra.

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Wynyard railway station

Underground railway station on Sydney's City Circle line.

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Railway station

Wyoming

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Federation Free Style block of professional chambers on the corner of Hunter and Macquarie Streets, named after the Junee property of the original owner and developer, grazier John O'Brien. The eight storey building was designed by Burcham Clamp and built by Turner and Loveridge in 1911, and included over 100 suites and rooms to be let to medical professionals and some residential flats. Described as a 'magnificent structure' and a skyscraper, one of the features of the building was the plumbing, with a hot water and sanitary service that had to be pumped to the top floors.

Residential block

Office block

Yamba cottage

Federation style weatherboard and corrugated iron cottage with wrap around verandah which is regarded as historically significant as an example of small holder farming in Camden area.

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Yaralla house

House in the Victorian Italianate style, built for Thomas Walker in 1857 on land granted to Isaac Nichols in 1797.

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Hospital

Yarra Bay House

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Thought to have been built as a second cable station for use between 1903 and 1917, it has also been a medical ward, girls' industrial school and boys' truancy school before becoming an administrative centre for the Aboriginal land council.

Yarrawarrah Community Hall

Community hall funded by Sutherland Shire Council to replace an earlier temporary structure.

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Hall

Yasmar house

Grand nineteenth-century house still standing in Haberfield. Situated at 185 Parramatta Road it has variously been a home, army quarters and remand centre.

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Yellow House

Art gallery at 59 Macleay Street that was transformed into an innovative multimedia space and artist's cooperative which nurtured many of Sydney's emerging artists, filmmakers, performers and musicians.

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YMCA Building

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Federation Free Style sandstone building on Pitt Street that was constructed by the Young Men's Christian Association in 1907. The building included offices, a performance and meeting space, and facilities for accommodation.

 

York Street Synagogue

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Early synagogue built on land close to the present location of Town Hall. It was consecrated in 1844 and in use for 35 years.

Place of worship

Ysabel, Hunters Hill

House at 6 Ernest Street, Hunters Hill that was built in 1890. Between 1912 and 1962, the building was known as the Malvern School. In 1963 the house was sold to tennis player Lew Hoad and named Ysabel after the first steam ferry of early Hunters Hill resident Jules Joubert. 

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Yui Ming temple Alexandria

Chinese temple built by market gardeners from Go Yui, then and now run by the Yui Ming Hung Fook Tong.

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Zanzibar

Restaurant hotel building which is the latest incarnation of the series of hotels which have existed here since the 1860s.

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Zetland Mosque

Inner city mosque where people from many different ethnic and social backgrounds share prayer mats.

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