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Insurance

AMP Building

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Post War International style office building which at 25 storeys was the first to officially break the 1912 Sydney height of Buildings Limit of 150 feet and thus become the tallest building in Australia at the time of its construction.

Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society Building

Victorian Free Classical style office and retail block built for an insurance business on the site of the Surry Arms Hotel. With a fine modelled stone facade and well articulated corner elevation design, it has been a city landmark for over 100 years. In the 1970s it had housed Grahame Book Company, a prominent publishing house from the 1940s to the 1980s.

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Colonial Mutual Life building

Commercial building in Martin Place, built at the time of the widening and improvement of the street, which housed tenants including the Sydney Stock Exchange and the United States consulate. In 1976 it became one of the earliest examples of a modern redevelopment retaining the original building facade.

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Equitable Life Assurance Building

Offices built for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of America designed by their visiting architect Edward Raht in American Romanesque style. It incorporated significant overseas construction techniques from the turn of the century including terracotta floors and marble slab floors.

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Ajax Insurance Limited

Finance company.

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Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society

Fire insurance company formed in 1871 which was owned by policy holders. The society's early interests were closely associated with the city's cooperative building movement.

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Colonial Mutual Life

Assurance company formed in Melbourne.

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Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society

Church based support network established to provide hospital, sickness and funeral benefits through insurance style subscription.

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Insurance Companies Fire Brigade

Umbrella organisation of fire brigades formed by insurance companies from the 1830s to protect buildings they insured. The buildings were distinguished by metal plates. They competed with volunteer brigades until legislation in 1883 forced amalgamation.

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MLC

Financial services and assurance company established in 1886 and since 2000 part of National Australia Bank.

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Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company

Fire insurance company founded in 1878 which expanded to cover all kinds of insurance.

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Mutual Fire Insurance Association

Insurance company established by legislation in 1841 to insure Sydney properties damaged by fire.

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NRMA

Motoring, travel and insurance company.

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Sun Fire Insurance Company

Branch of the English insurance company.

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Sydney Insurance Company

Insurance company established and incorporated by legislation in 1855.

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Tower Australia

Insurance and finance company.

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Black, Morrice A

Actuary for AMP for 30 years to 1890.

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Carment, David Maxwell

Actuary who rose to be a senior executive at AMP in early twentieth century.

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King, Kelso

Businessman whose hard work and business acumen lead to his position on many company boards and within many cultural organisations.

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Metcalfe, Michael

Merchant, customs agent and Anglican patron of many church related missions, schools and colleges.

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Sneddon, Andrew William

General Manager of the AMP Society from 1934 until his death in 1945.

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Thomson, Robert

Secretary of Australian Mutual Provident Society 1854-65, later co-founder in Melbourne of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society in 1873.

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de Mestre, Prosper

Settler of French origin who built a successful mercantile business, became a director of the Bank of New South Wales and a founder of the local insurance industry.

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