Suburb History

THE SINGING ARCHITECT: CLANRICARDE

9 Apr 2021

Clanricarde, 15 Billyard Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, is an imposing 1920s apartment block. It may take its name from Clanricarde, an ancient...

OUR MOUNTED POLICE – A QUIET PRESENCE

31 Mar 2021

Photo credit: NSW Police Force   At certain times of the day and night something quaint, even antique, happens in our 2011...

FORMER 1870s KINCOPPAL SCHOOL STABLES, ELIZABETH BAY

25 Mar 2021

This quaint, free-standing, single-storey sandstone building facing Elizabeth Bay Road has a long, and useful, 150-year history. John Hughes (1825-1885), a...

18 Mar 2021

Hotel Challis: 21-23 Challis Avenue Potts Point    Located within the Challis Estate subdivision of 1889, the grand terraces at 21-23 Challis...

SAVOY, 10 Hardie Street, Darlinghurst

4 Mar 2021

Claud Hamilton (1891-1943), architect and inventor, built one of his grandest buildings, the Savoy, in 1919 at 10 Hardie Street,...

Rosaleen Norton, witch-at-large

18 Feb 2021

Kings Cross in the 1970s was very, very different to today’s Darlinghurst Road strip. It harboured bohemian eccentrics and misanthropes on...

46 Chisolm Street Darlinghurst, a humble 1880s worker’s cottage lives on

11 Feb 2021

Darlinghurst lies on the edge of the City of Sydney. Although sometimes confused with its illustrious neighbour, Kings Cross, Darlinghurst is a...

THE NINE LIVES OF 23 HUGHES STREET

4 Feb 2021

THE NINE LIVES OF 23 HUGHES STREET 23 Hughes Street, Potts Point, is almost hidden from history. It sits behind dense...

10 ORWELL STREET, POTTS POINT

28 Jan 2021

  Orwell Street is one of a number of smaller streets in the Potts Point area. It may be diminutive in size...

POTTS POINT RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE IN CAHORS AND ON MACELHONE STEPS

21 Jan 2021

Under its leafy tree canopy Potts Point has provided shade for local residents and it has also cover for some...

BARNCLEUTH “CASTLE”

3 Dec 2020

Barncleuth is a rare and unusual building. It occupies two sites at 6 and 8 Barncleuth Square, Elizabeth Bay. It...

KING OF THE HILL: MACLEAY-REGIS

26 Nov 2020

MACLEAY- REGIS, Latin for “King of Macleay”, 12 Macleay Street, is an appropriate title for this regal, majestic apartment block. Apartment...

HUGHES STREET POTTS POINT

5 Nov 2020

Hughes Street, Potts Point, is one of Potts Point’s more intimate streets. It runs east-west off Macleay Street to Victoria...

29 Oct 2020

TARA, 3-5 Greenowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay “Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that in consequence...

TWENTY MACLEAY STREET

8 Oct 2020

Twenty Macleay Street is one of a number of a large number of apartment blocks built in the highly fashionable...

Bayview, 41-49 Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay

1 Oct 2020

Many Europeans and Euro-architects fled before, during and after World War II (1939-1945). They were escaping persecution from the German Nazis because...

MEUDON: BEAUTIFUL VIEW, À LA FRANÇAISE

24 Sep 2020

MEUDON, 13 Onslow Avenue, overlooking Elizabeth Bay, is an unusual building. It looks like a very large iron, similar to...

KELBURN HALL, ELIZABETH BAY

11 Sep 2020

Kelburn Hall, 51 Elizabeth Bay Road, is a four-storey apartment block of 16 apartments and one of the hidden gems...

GRANTHAM STREET

10 Sep 2020

Grantham Street, Potts Point, has a noble past but it is not based on the name of Lord Grantham, head of...

KALOOLA

3 Sep 2020

Apartment 7, Kaloola, at 2 St Neot Avenue, Potts Point, is for sale through Angelo Bouras and Penny Timothy https://www.rwebay.com.au/5734107/ It was...