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Offices and rooms built in 1891 at 204 Pitt Street for the Tattersalls Club as the growing membership saw it outgrow the rooms next to the Tattersalls Hotel. Designed by architects Sherin and Hennessy, the winners of a design competition, in 1890 and constructed by Paddington builder Archibald Truehope, the building was opened in 1891. Originally three storeys high, the design was described as 'a free rendering of the classical Renaissance style'. The Pitt Street facade was made of Pyrmont sandstone. The club sold the building in 1924 and moved in to new premises on Elizabeth Street in 1929. The building's new owners, the McIlrath grocers, opened in the building in 1928. They also owned the property at 202. Various other clubs and businesses continued to occupy the building including Club Italia, the Albert Club, and in the early 1960s, the Sky Lounge, by which time ownership of the buildings had passed to Woolworths. City Tattersalls, which occupied the adjoining buildings at 198-200 Pitt Street, bought the building in 1975.