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Detail showing Circular Quay from Dove's Plan of Sydney 1880

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H Percy Dove
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City of Sydney Archives
[Plans of Sydney (Doves), 1880: Map 1 - Blocks 1, 2, 3, 4 (Detail), CRS150/1]

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Dove, H Percy

City of Sydney Archives

Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Mort's Wool Stores, Circular Quay

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Large Italianate warehouse on the corner of Alfred and Young Streets at Circular Quay that was designed by Edmund Blacket in the 1860s for Mort & Co. The building was extended in the 1880s, and demolished in 1959 (by which time it was known as the Farmers and Graziers Building) to make way for the construction of the AMP Building.

Customs House

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Public building on Alfred Street at Circular Quay where shipping was cleared and goods passing through the port of Sydney were taxed and cleared for sale or export. A number of Customs House buildings have stood on the site since since 1845 and it was designed and redesigned by three government architects Mortimer Lewis, James Barnet and Walter Liberty Vernon. When the port was busy the House was crowded and noisy, the scene of raised tempers, delays and disputed dealings. It was surrounded by public houses, shipping companies and general maritime activities.

In 1990 the building was closed as a customs departments and in 1994 was leased to the City of Sydney who refurbished the building for use as a multipurpose commercial space that opened in 1995. In 2005 Customs House reopened as the headquarters of the City of Sydney Library and function centre. In April 2019 the City of Sydney purchased the building from the Federal Government.

 

Macquarie Street

Street at the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district, designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare by Lachlan Macquarie and containing many of Sydney's public buildings. It was later the best address in the colony, and became a prestigious medical precinct in the twentieth century.

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Water Police

Established by legislation in 1840 it has retained the original objective of the 'Row Boat Guard' of 1789 of the prevention of smuggling, to which had been added the protection of wharf cargoes, pleasure craft, and effecting rescue operations, not only in the waters of Port Jackson, but along the entire coastline.

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Treasury Buildings

Sandstone office blocks in the Italian Palazzo style built on the site of the first Government House garden. It was occupied by a series of government departments before the conversion to an hotel in 1985.

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Hinchcliff Wool Stores

Two three storey gabled warehouses built to service the international wool trade of the late nineteenth century. Two loading bays and hoist pulley indicate how the bales were lifted manually to the upper storeys before shipment. In 1945 it became a Catholic refuge and since 1988 has been an office complex.

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