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Cumberland Place, The Rocks 1912

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Cumberland Place, The Rocks 1912

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Residential building

Cumberland Place house

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House erected at Bunkers Hill in The Rocks for Robert Campbell in the mid 1820s. Designed by Francis Greenway, it was eventually sold to the Scott family and was the home of David Scott Mitchell. The house was demolished in 1912.

The Rocks

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Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.

Bunkers Hill

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High ground at The Rocks, now under Gloucester Walk and the Sirius apartments, named for Eber Bunker, sea captain, who lived there when it was a prestigious address.