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Burdekin House c1930

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State Library of New South Wales

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

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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