Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Yaralla house

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

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Milestone
Constructed
1851 - 1857
Modified
1893 - 1899
Position
1851 - 1857
1893 - 1899
Type
1857 - 1937
1938 - 2011

Walker, Eadith

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2010

Born into a privileged life of travel and culture, Eadith Walker became one of Sydney's foremost philanthropists and patrons of the arts.

Walker, Thomas

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2011

A businessman, pastoralist and philanthropist, Thomas Walker used the fortune he'd made in the colony to endow hospitals, establish cultural institutions and support the poor.

Yaralla estate

,
2011

One of Sydney's grandest estates, and a centre of high society into the 1920s, Yaralla was the home of Thomas and Eadith Walker, noted philanthropists.