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Elizabeth Farm House 4 June 2005

Elizabeth Farm House 4 June 2005

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Built over tracks, campsites, rock art and middens used for thousands of years before the dispossession of the Aboriginal people, Sydney's early haphazard development was given form by public buildings. As public transport developed, suburbs spread, and throughout the twentieth century, town planners struggled with developers to direct the form and extent of the city. After World War II, city buildings got taller, outer suburbs sprang up ever further away, and issues of heritage and architecture were contested. In the twenty-first century, concerns about environment, urban density, public transport and renewed infrastructure are driving change.

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Elizabeth Farm House

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House built for John and Elizabeth Macarthur on their estate at Parramatta, and later enlarged into a comfortable country house, which is now a house museum run by Sydney Living Museums.

Elizabeth Farm

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Farm established in Parramatta by John and Elizabeth Macarthur, on land granted to them in the 1790s. The estate was subdivided in 1880 as Rosehill. The Macarthur's residence on the property, Elizabeth Farm House, is now part of Sydney Living Museums.