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Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 1864-69

Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 1864-69

By

William Cosmo Trevor

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a302098 / PXA 974, 98]

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Trevor, William Cosmo

State Library of New South Wales

Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

Founded in 1833 on the model of Scottish Mechanics' Institutes, the SMSA sought to provide further education for working men through lectures, classes and a library. Many of Sydney's foremost intellectuals, inventors and innovators were associated with it, and it influenced the development of both the University of Sydney and technical education in New South Wales. It still provides a library and lectures to Sydneysiders in 2009.

Arthouse Hotel

Built as the library, hall and rooms for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and long a centre of cultural life in Sydney, the Arthouse Hotel was converted into a pub in the 1990s.

Victorian architecture

Schools of Arts

Arthouse Hotel

Hotel trading in premises originally built as Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

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Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

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The oldest School of Arts in Sydney was founded to provide further education for working people and has done so since its inception in 1833.