Dictionary of Sydney

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64-66 Pitt Street, Sydney

Curved building on the corner of Pitt, Hunter and O'Connell Streets in the city that was built by the Fairfax family to house the offices of their newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail, in the 1920s, on the site of the former Sydney Morning Herald building. Designed by Manson & Pickering, it was built by Stuart Bros in three stages. The newspaper moved to a new building at Broadway in 1954 and this building was sold to the Bank of New South Wales (later Westpac), when it was known as Wales House. Since the bank sold the property, it has been adapted and used as an office building and a hotel.

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Milestone
Constructed
1924 - 1928
Name
Alternate
Wales House
Alternate
Sydney Morning Herald building
1924 - 1955
Alternate
Radisson Plaza Hotel
2000 - 2011
Alternate
Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel
2011 -
Property
On site of
Occupied by
1924 - 1956
Owned by
1924 - 1955
Owned by
1954 - 1982
Type