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Mark Foy's department store c1958

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Raymond Morris
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National Museum of Australia
[Slide 172, via NMA's Flickr set]
(Raymond Morris Collection, courtesy of the photographer)

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National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia is a social history museum that explores the land, nation and people of Australia. The museum focuses on Indigenous histories and cultures, histories of European settlement and our interaction with the environment.

Mark Foy's

Established in Oxford Street in the 1880s, Mark Foy's became one of Sydney's leading stores, with a grand store in Liverpool Street and a wide range of departments.

Commercial building

Retail

Downing Centre

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Originally the elegant Mark Foy's flagship store on the corner of Liverpool, Elizabeth and Castlereagh streets, it was converted for use as courts in 1985. It has a distinctive façade of white bricks with yellow faience work to the sills and cornices. Two corner towers with yellow pinnacles surmount the building. Originally three storeys it was extended several times in the interwar period and is now eight storeys high.

Mark Foy's

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Leading Sydney department store that closed in the 1960s. The store's landmark Piazza building on Liverpool Street later became the Downing Centre court complex.