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Eastern Sydney CBD 2007

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Eastern Sydney CBD 2007

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Hyde Park

Part of the common land reserved by Governor Phillip for the town's use in 1792, Hyde Park was proclaimed by Macquarie in 1810, and became a racecourse, cricket ground and open space. Without trees until 1854, in later years plantings, civic monuments, paths and buildings were all placed in the park. When the City Circle railway loop was built in the 1920s the whole park was dug up and reconstruction work included planting many of the trees that are still there.

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Australian Museum

First public museum in Australia in a purpose built sandstone building which commands the eastern side of Hyde Park. It continues to exhibit and expand the knowledge of the cultural and natural history of Australia and the Pacific region.

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Hyde Park

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Park providing green space in Sydney's busy centre.

St Mary's Cathedral

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St Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and the mother diocese of Australia, and remains the largest ecclesiastical building in the English Gothic style in the world.

Cook + Phillip Park

Two parks designated as Crown Land for recreation in 1878 which were combined into one water world in 1998. The park comprises swimming pools, the Yurong Water Garden and the pools of reflection on College Street, which act as major structural elements to balance the weight of the roof of the pools below.

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Anzac War Memorial Hyde Park

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The main war memorial in Sydney and one of the city's finest Art Deco buildings. It embodies the collective grief of the people of NSW at the loss of Australian servicemen and women since World War I. It is associated with the landing of Australian troops at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, since fundraising for the memorial was established on the first anniversary of the landing.

MLC Centre

Retail, office and theatre complex on Castlereagh Street designed by Harry Seidler and built by Lend Lease in 1973-76.

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Centrepoint Tower

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Landmark and tourist attraction that rises high above the city skyline.

Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.

The Mint

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Building on Macquarie Street, originally part of Sydney Hospital and subsequently used as a mint.

Law Courts Building Queens Square

Federal court building on Queens Square completed in 1977.

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East Sydney

Small inner-city suburb immediately east of Hyde Park whose predominantly Italian community in the 1960s and 1970s has shaped the restaurant culture today.

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Darlinghurst

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Inner suburb to the east of the city which has been home to both gentry and underclass. The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School.