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Molnar, George

National Library of Australia

Housing Sydney

From harbourside mansion to fringe estate, housing in Sydney provides indispensable insights into the city's social makeup, economic foundations and cultural identity.

Housing Market

Elizabeth Bay

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Eastern harbourside suburb named in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie's wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bay House (1837), designed by John Verge, was once surrounded by gardens but these were subdivided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.