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Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney c1840-1850

Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney c1840-1850

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State Library of New South Wales

[a623015 / PX*D 123, 5b]

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State Library of New South Wales

Hyde Park Barracks

From convict barracks to female immigration depot to asylum for destitute women, Hyde Park Barracks has witnessed and revealed much of Sydney's social history.

Macquarie, Lachlan

Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, Macquarie shaped Sydney's built environment, social structure, financial development and public morals.

Colonial architecture

Convicts

Prisons

Public building

Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.