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Intercolonial Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, September 1870

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City of Sydney Archives

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Garden Palace

Whilst the Garden Palace was a brief and fiery addition to the Sydney landscape, the decision to hold an International Exhibition in 1879 was to place the city on the world stage.

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Victorian architecture

Intercolonial Exhibition Building

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Exhibition hall built in Prince Alfred Park in 1870 to mark the centenary of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay and to house the first major inter-colonial Australian Exhibition.

Prince Alfred Park Surry Hills

Large open parkland in Surry Hills bounded by Cleveland and Chalmers streets which had been part of Cleveland Paddocks between the 1820s and 1865.

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