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Burdekin House c1930

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Burdekin House c1930

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Colonial architecture

Housing

Residential building

Burdekin House

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Nineteenth-century Sydney's 'finest private residence' in Macquarie Street. Built by merchant Thomas Burdekin in 1842, its demolition in 1933 was an early catalyst for the heritage movement.

Macquarie Street

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Street at the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district that extends from Circular Quay to Hyde Park, designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare by Lachlan Macquarie and containing many of Sydney's public buildings. It was first gazetted in October 1810 and described as 'The easternmost street in the town, and extending in a southerly direction from the Government Domain to Hyde Park'. It was later the best address in the colony, and became a prestigious medical precinct in the twentieth century.