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Garden Palace 1879

Garden Palace 1879

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State Library of New South Wales

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State Library of New South Wales

Garden Palace

Whilst the Garden Palace was a brief and fiery addition to the Sydney landscape, the decision to hold an International Exhibition in 1879 was to place the city on the world stage.

Public building

Victorian architecture

Garden Palace

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Building in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens which hosted the spectacular International Exhibition in 1879 before its equally spectacular destruction by fire in 1882.

Royal Botanic Gardens

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Harbourside gardens that combine scientific research with recreation for Sydneysiders.