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View from 'Hilton', residence of John Rae, Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst c1879-82

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Darlinghurst

Used by its traditional owners, the Gadigal people, well into the 1840s, Darlinghurst was a quarry and windmill site before it became popular for the fine villas of the colony's well-to-do, in the 1830s. Subsequent booms and busts raised and lowered the suburb's fortunes, creating the mix of poor and posh, criminal and respectable that have made Darlinghurst one of Sydney's most interesting localities.

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Animals

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Victorian architecture

Darlinghurst

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Inner suburb to the east of the city which has been home to both gentry and underclass. The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School.

Hilton

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Darlinghurst villa built for John Rae.

Rae, John

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Scottish-born public servant, writer, photographer and painter who was the first full-time town clerk of the City of Sydney, and later a railway commissioner.