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General Post Office, George Street c1872

By
Charles Percy Pickering
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ SPF/281]
(Mitchell Library)

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

General Post Office

From convict beginnings, the General Post Office was to re-emerge in the 1860s in Italian Renaissance grandeur when James Barnet created an enduring centrepiece for Sydney.

Postal services

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Victorian architecture

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Renaissance Palazzo style building in Pyrmont sandstone on the corner of George Street and Martin Place. The building was constructed on the site of the earlier George Street General Post Office in two stages from 1866 to 1892 as the headquarters of the Government's growing postal services. In the mid 1990s part of the building was sold and converted for use as a hotel, with the remainder of the building being sold to the hotel's operatorsĀ Far East/Sino Land in 2017.