Apartment 7, Kaloola, at 2 St Neot Avenue, Potts Point, is for sale through Angelo Bouras and Penny Timothy

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It was built in the stylish late 1920s and is dated 1927. It was designed by the famous architect Claud, without an e, Hamilton. Mr Hamilton was ubiquitous in the area.

The 1910 Royal Commission into Planning for Sydney remade Sydney along new planning ideas, especially those of the City Beautiful movement and its motto of “convenience, utility and beauty”.

Claud Hamilton’s prominent buildings include the Savoy (1919), beside St John’s Church. It was the city home of Dame Eadith Walker (1861-1937) philanthropist, from 1919 until her death in 1937. He also designed Byron Hall (1928), 97 Macleay Street, Regents Court (1926), 18 Springfield Avenue, Potts Point, Sandringham (1932) 20 Springfield Avenue; Wirringulla (1927) and Kaloola (1927) in St Neot Avenue; Lakemount (1933) in Roslyn Gardens and on Darlinghurst Road, St John’s Flats (1916); Versailles (1929) and Normandy; and Tennyson House (c.1928) in Farrell Avenue.

Other sites include the former Kookaburra Cafe Building on the corner of Llankelly Place and Darlinghurst Road.

It is not known why the name, Kaloola, whose name is inscribed in gold leaf in the foyer, was chosen for this site, but it apparently means “no water”.

The architect has incorporated bay windows, liver-coloured exterior brickwork and terrazzo in the entrance foyer along with polished brass fixtures and letterbox numbers. Interiors include original pine flooring, high ceilings and elegant period skirting boards.

By

Andrew Woodhouse

Heritage Solutions