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St Vincent's Hospital, Victoria Street, Darling...

St Vincent's Hospital, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst 1887

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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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St Vincent's Hospital

Hospital founded by the Sisters of Charity Catholic religious order in 1857, which has grown into one of Sydney's largest health care organisations, with public and private divisions, a hospice and teaching and research facilities.

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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.