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Commonwealth Bank, Sydney c1920s

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Commonwealth Bank, Sydney c1920s

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Commonwealth Bank

Bank founded under the Commonwealth Bank Act in 1911 which today offers a full range of financial services. In 1959 the Reserve Bank Act of 1959 separated the central banking role of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia from its commercial functions.

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia building

Bank building at 42 Martin Place which is a rare example of Inter-War Beaux-Arts style. The Banking Chamber, Grand Hall and Safe Deposit area form a sequence of grand interiors with imported marble and a plaster and pressed metal ceiling.

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Martin Place

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Wide street running through Sydney's centre, from the General Post Office at the George Street end, and completed when Sydney City Council resumed property to extend the street all the way to Macquarie Street in the 1930s. Lined with elegant buildings of grand design and lavish materials it has been entirely pedestrian since 1979.