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'Government House' in the days of Governor Phillip, 1864

This engraving, published in the Illustrated Sydney News in 1864, shows a recently demolished cottage in Pitt Street, erroneously titled ''Government House' in the days of Phillip'. This was incorrect, and the building never functioned as Government House.

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[Illustrated Sydney News, 16 July 1864, p9 via Trove]

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The first Government House: building on Phillip’s ‘good foundation’

The first Government House was not a simple singular structure but a complex with a yard, outbuildings, guardhouse, garden and greater domain. It was a home, an office and a venue for public and private entertaining, but also a symbol of British authority, with all that that meant to different people, both then and now.

Colonial architecture