Regents Court apartments, 18 Springfield Avenue, Potts Point, is tucked into a tree-lined corner of Potts Point and has been part of its heritage since 1926.

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It incorporates various Art Deco features including diamond-shaped bevelled glass front door inserts and terrazzo flooring.

It sits on the corner of Springfield Mall and Springfield Avenue and is also a boutique hotel.

Potts Point is described by the New York Times as an area with “a bohemian heritage going back to the 1920s. Potts Point is Sydney’s answer to Paris’s Left Bank or London’s Notting Hill.”

The architect, Claud Hamilton, spelled his Christian name in the French manner without an e.

He lived locally and designed a large number of buildings in the area including Sandringham next door six years later, also with the same bricks, diamond-shaped glass doors and terrazzo flooring.

Mr Hamilton (1890-1943) had migrated from New Zealand in 1913.

He was highly prolific in the area having also designed the Savoy apartments, Hardie Street, Darlinghurst, Versailles apartments, Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst (1929), Sandringham, Springfield Avenue (1932), Byron Hall, Macleay Street, Potts Point, (1929) and Kaloola, St Neots Avenue, Potts Point.

His career ended abruptly when he failed to pay a Sydney Council debt of $100.

Council filed for bankruptcy and was successful in winning their case in November 1940. He was legally broke.

Mr Hamilton died ignominiously three years later, aged 53,​ but left an enduring, distinct architectural legacy still celebrated today.

By

Andrew Woodhouse

Heritage Solutions