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Whitehall House
Whitehouse House
Wigram Chambers Office block
Wigram House Office block
Wilberforce School of Arts or Literary Institute hall School of Arts hall
Willandra House
Willoughby Fire Station Fire station
Willoughby Incinerator Incinerator
Wilona House
Winchcombe Carson Woolstore Warehouse or bond store
Winchester Hotel Hotel
Windsor Court House Court
Windsor School of Arts and Literary Institute School of Arts hall
Wireless House Public building
Wisemans Ferry Methodist church Place of worship
Wivenhoe House House
Women's College, University of Sydney Residential block
Women's Liberation House House
Wood-Martin House
Woodford Academy House
Woodlands House
Woollahra House House
Woollahra House II House
Woollamoola House House
Woolpack Hotel I Hotel
Woronora Hotel Hotel
Wybalena House
Wychwood House
Wynyard railway station Railway station
Wyoming Residential blockOffice block
Yamba cottage House
Yaralla house HouseHospital
Yarra Bay House HouseOffice block
Yarrawarrah Community Hall Hall
Yasmar house House
Yellow House House
Yengo House
YMCA Building Hall
York Street Synagogue Place of worship
Ysabel, Hunters Hill House
Yui Ming temple Alexandria Place of worship
Zanzibar Hotel
Zetland Mosque Place of worship

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Whitehall

Single storey Victorian Rustic Gothic style house built for William Marshall Jackson and thought to be one of oldest houses in Balgowlah.

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Whitehouse

House in Cobbitty, erected 1902, formerly named Pomare Grove House

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Wigram Chambers

Law offices at 167 Phillip Street which were converted into chambers for Sydney University law school about 1913.

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Office block

Wigram House

Exclusive gentlemen's club in central Sydney which was converted to office use in 1917.

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Wilberforce School of Arts or Literary Institute hall

Community hall built in 1930 and later used for showing movies.

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School of Arts hall

Willandra

Grand house built in the 1840s by James Devlin in Ryde.

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Willoughby Fire Station

Federation style two-storey building which was used as a fire station.

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Fire station

Willoughby Incinerator

Four level incinerator which achieved much higher efficiencies by moving the refuse down a sloping vibrating grate within the combustion chamber. The building has since been converted to office and studio space.

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Incinerator

Wilona

Federation mansion at 18 Wilona Avenue in Greenwich that was built by William Wilson in 1902. The house was originally surrounded by its own dairy, tennis courts and croquet lawn on River Road. The surrounding land was subdivided in 1940 after the death of Ann Wilson who had continued to live there after her husband's death in 1935.

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Winchcombe Carson Woolstore

Woolstore constructed against the sandstone cliff of the former quarry. They used the terrain to develop a system of “gravity baling”. Heavy loads of wool came in at the Jones Street level and were moved easily through the store's display, examination and auction floors using chutes, to emerge at Wattle Street.

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Warehouse or bond store

Winchester Hotel

Hotel near Cowper Street on Glebe Point Road which served the local clientelle since the 1870s.

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Hotel

Windsor Court House

One of the earliest surviving court house buildings in Australia and a rare early 19th century Georgian style public building. Governor Macquarie requested the original timber court house be replaced and a new one was designed by Francis Greenway. It was built using convict labour, overseen by William Cox. The building consists of a courtroom, ancillary rooms at each corner of the building as well as an extension designed by James Barnet and carried out in the 1870s and 1882. It was restored and renovated and the it remains in use today.

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Court

Windsor School of Arts and Literary Institute

Opened by John Dunmore Lang in 1862, this community building housed a hall, library, meeting rooms and kitchen. Windsor Council took over the building for a library in 1946, but it was later sold and used as Enoch Taylor's boot factory until 1988.

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Wireless House

Building constructed by Glebe Council in Foley Park for community radio broadcasts. It operated from 10am until 10.15pm every day from February 1935 until the early 1950s.

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Public building

Wisemans Ferry Methodist church

Church destroyed by the hugely destructive flooding of the Hawkesbury in 1867.

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Place of worship

Wivenhoe House

House built of Camden stone for Sir Charles Cowper in 1837 to a design by John Verge on part of the original grant of land made to the Cowper family by Governor Macquarie in 1812

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Women's College, University of Sydney

Seven phases of institutional building, carried out between 1892 and 1996 demonstrate the growth of the College and changing architectural styles over more than a century. The original building was designed by John Sulman and Joseph Porter Power to accommodate 26 students, and opened in 1894. The College now houses over 280 students.

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Residential block

Women's Liberation House

Activity and referral centre for Sydney's gay women at 25 Alberta Street Sydney. It later operated from a house in Chippendale.

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Wood-Martin

House built for the Hamilton family of Pymble, and later used as a Methodist children's home.

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Woodford Academy

Inn built by Thomas Pembroke in 1831-32 which was subsequently extended and used as a businessman's residence, a school for boys, a guest house, boarding house and private residence. It is now owned by the National Trust (NSW).

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Woodlands

House on Sydney's north shore, where Ethel Turner lived.

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Woollahra House

House built for Daniel Cooper in 1856 on the site of Henrietta Villa.

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Woollahra House II

House built for William Cooper in 1883 on the site of his father's former house of the same name.

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Woollamoola House

House constructed on Woolloomooloo Farm c1793.

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Woolpack Hotel I

Colonial inn sited on the south east corner of George and Marsden streets which was to become the site of the court house. It was rebuilt in 1889 on the south west corner.

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Woronora Hotel

Early hotel in the Como area, which served the railway workers building the new line in the 1880s.

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Wybalena

Large Victorian style gentleman's residence.

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Wychwood

Home built in the Federation style for George McFarlane in 1901 in Ku-ring-gai Avenue Turramurra.

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Wynyard railway station

Underground railway station on Sydney's City Circle line.

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Railway station

Wyoming

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Federation Free Style block of professional chambers on the corner of Hunter and Macquarie Streets, named after the Junee property of the original owner and developer, grazier John O'Brien. The eight storey building was designed by Burcham Clamp and built by Turner and Loveridge in 1911, and included over 100 suites and rooms to be let to medical professionals and some residential flats. Described as a 'magnificent structure' and a skyscraper, one of the features of the building was the plumbing, with a hot water and sanitary service that had to be pumped to the top floors.

Yamba cottage

Federation style weatherboard and corrugated iron cottage with wrap around verandah which is regarded as historically significant as an example of small holder farming in Camden area.

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Yaralla house

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House in the Victorian Italianate style, built for Thomas Walker in 1857 on land granted to Isaac Nichols in 1797.

Hospital

Yarra Bay House

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Thought to have been built as a second cable station for use between 1903 and 1917, it has also been a medical ward, girls' industrial school and boys' truancy school before becoming an administrative centre for the Aboriginal land council.

Yarrawarrah Community Hall

Community hall funded by Sutherland Shire Council to replace an earlier temporary structure.

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Hall

Yasmar house

Grand nineteenth-century house still standing in Haberfield. Situated at 185 Parramatta Road it has variously been a home, army quarters and remand centre.

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Yellow House

Art gallery at 59 Macleay Street that was transformed into an innovative multimedia space and artist's cooperative which nurtured many of Sydney's emerging artists, filmmakers, performers and musicians.

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Yengo

Victorian Georgian stone house at 11-19 Queens Avenue, Mount Wilson that was built for industrialist Jesse Gregson in 1880. The house is one of the foundation houses of Mount Wilson, and the significant garden was created by Gregson with the help of Charles Moore and then J.H. Maiden.

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YMCA Building

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Federation Free Style sandstone building on Pitt Street that was constructed by the Young Men's Christian Association in 1907. The building included offices, a performance and meeting space, and facilities for accommodation.

 

York Street Synagogue

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Early synagogue built on land close to the present location of Town Hall. It was consecrated in 1844 and in use for 35 years.

Ysabel, Hunters Hill

House at 6 Ernest Street, Hunters Hill that was built in 1890. Between 1912 and 1962, the building was known as the Malvern School. In 1963 the house was sold to tennis player Lew Hoad and named Ysabel after the first steam ferry of early Hunters Hill resident Jules Joubert. 

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Yui Ming temple Alexandria

Chinese temple built by market gardeners from Go Yui, then and now run by the Yui Ming Hung Fook Tong.

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Zanzibar

Restaurant hotel building which is the latest incarnation of the series of hotels which have existed here since the 1860s.

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Zetland Mosque

Inner city mosque where people from many different ethnic and social backgrounds share prayer mats.

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