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View from the lounge windows of apartment in The Astor 1938

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[PXA 1474/Item 1 FILE 01: Our home No. 2 Floor 10 The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney c1938]
(Mitchell Library)

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Residential building

Housing

The Astor

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Prestigious thirteen storey reinforced concrete residential apartment building in the Interwar Free Classical Style at 123-125 Macquarie Street.

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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Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Steel through arch bridge from Sydney business district to the North Shore, constructed between 1923 and 1932.