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Elizabeth Bay

Suburb

Eastern harbourside suburb named in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie's wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bay House (1837), designed by John Verge, was once surrounded by gardens but these were subdivided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Name
Commemorates
Macquarie, Elizabeth
Property
Administered by
City of Sydney Council
Part of
City of Sydney local government area
Type
Suburb