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Forest Lodge and Alma Cottage, Glebe c1865

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Forest Lodge

The inner-west suburb of Forest Lodge was named after a Regency villa built there in 1836, and has seen many changes since its days as an arcadian retreat.  The strong working class culture that shaped Forest Lodge for most of the 19th and 20th centuries has given way as new residents have gentrified and developed the area.

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Forest Lodge

Inner city residential suburb between Glebe and Camperdown. It is named for the 1836 house of Ambrose Foss, chemist and druggist.

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Forest Lodge villa

Regency house named Forest Lodge for its (then) idllylic bushland setting, designed by John Verge for pharmacist Ambrose Foss and his family in 1836. The house was demolished in 1912, and would have stood approximately on the south eastern corner of Bridge Roads and Ross Street.

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