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Prince Consort's statue & Astor House, Macquari...

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Prince Consort's statue & Astor House, Macquarie St 1925

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W.D. & H.O. Wills

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National Library of Australia

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W.D. & H.O. Wills

National Library of Australia

Inter-War architecture

Residential building

Sculpture

Macquarie Street

Street at the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district, designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare by Lachlan Macquarie and containing many of Sydney's public buildings. It was later the best address in the colony, and became a prestigious medical precinct in the twentieth century.

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Statue of Prince Albert

Bronze statue of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, sculpted by English sculptor William Theed and shipped to Sydney where it was erected in Hyde Park and unveiled five years after Albert's death.

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The Astor

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Prestigious thirteen storey reinforced concrete residential apartment building in the Interwar Free Classical Style at 123-125 Macquarie Street.

Royal Botanic Gardens

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Harbourside gardens that combine scientific research with recreation for Sydneysiders.