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At Potts Point - Tamworth Mansion, Elizabeth Ba...

At Potts Point - Tamworth Mansion, Elizabeth Bay Road c1900

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John Henry Harvey

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Harvey, John Henry

State Library of Victoria

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Residential building

Victorian architecture

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.

Potts Point

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Small, densely populated inner-eastern suburb, joined to Garden Island in 1942. It contains significant nineteenth-century buildings as well as some of Sydney's earliest apartment buildings in the Art Deco style. It includes the locality of Kings Cross.