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Educational facility

Type - Educational facility
Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay
Adelaide Park Free School
Anderson Stuart Building
Aspinall House
Australian College building
Carters' Barracks
Chapter Hall St Mary's Cathedral
1845 - 1910
Cleveland Street School
Commercial High School building Ultimo
Darlinghurst Gaol
Elfred House
Female Orphan School, George Street
Female Orphan School, Parramatta
Garcia Centre for Performing Arts
Gordon Public School building
Newtown High School of Performing Arts
Old Darlington School
Ormond
Paddington Public School building
Perth House
Roman Catholic Orphanage
SDN Woolloomooloo Children's Education and Care Centre
St Brigid's Catholic church and school Millers Point
St Josephs church hall, Rozelle
St Patrick's Seminary Manly
St Stephen's parish hall, Newtown
1871 - 1907
St Vincent's College
Stratford School for Girls
Sussex Street Public School
Sydney Conservatorium of Music building
Sydney Girls High School building, Elizabeth Street
Sydney Technical College main building
Tara
Technological Museum building Ultimo
UTS Tower
WEA Newport (David Stewart Summer School)
Wahroonga Kindergarten

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Educational facility

Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay

Educational facility to provide health training for Indigenous Australians.

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Adelaide Park Free School

Stone schoolhouse built by Thomas Hynde on his country estate, Adelaide Park, at Burwood. This was used as a church before the opening of St Thomas' in 1848.

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Anderson Stuart Building

Sandstone medical school at University of Sydney which has been in continuous use since 1889.

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Aspinall House

Built in 1883 for Joshua Frey Josephson who named it St Killian's, the construction included some elements like a staircase and marble hall tiles from his former home Enmore House. It was converted to a boarding school house when Scots College moved to Bellevue Hill in 1895 and renamed after Arthur Aspinall, the school's first principal.  

 

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Australian College building

Buildings on Jamison Street, Church Hill erected to house JD Lang's Australian College.

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Carters' Barracks

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Barracks on Pitt Street, running along what is close to contemporary Eddy Avenue, comprising several buildings built to house convict gangs working as carters on the brick fields. It was also used as a boys' barracks and, from 1835 to 1843, as a debtors' prison. Part of the complex was later used as a training facility for women, part of the women's refuge run by Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Another building was used as the Police Barracks. The buildings were demolished by 1901 to make way for Central Railway Station.

Chapter Hall St Mary's Cathedral

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Hall commissioned by Archbishop Polding and built to designs drawn up in England by AWN Pugin between 1843 and 1845. Initially used as a school, it was converted to a chapter hall in 1910.

Cleveland Street School

Sandstone and brick Gothic Revival style building which was originally 3 classrooms catering for over 500 students. Additional wings were added as numbers grew to over 2000 by 1909. The building has been used as a public school, intermediate high school, high school and intensive language centre.

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Commercial High School building Ultimo

Building erected in 1892 as part of Sydney Technical College in Mary Ann Street Ultimo. It was intended to be co-educational but it only ever housed Sydney Boys High and operated as a normal high school.

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Darlinghurst Gaol

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Sydney's main gaol from its opening in 1841, later used as an internment camp, technical college and art school.

Elfred House

House constructed on a four acre land grant made in 1831 in Glenmore Road Paddington.

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Female Orphan School, George Street

Two storey Georgian building on the corner of George and Bridge Streets that housed destitute girls. It was purchased by the government in 1801 from its former owner Lieutenant Kent and closed in 1829 when the purpose built orphanage at Parramatta was completed.

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Female Orphan School, Parramatta

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Three storey brick barracks in Parramatta that was built in the 1820s to house orphans after numbers increased beyond the capacity of the orphanage in the city. In use until the 1880s, the building was next psychiatric hospital for over a century before becoming part of the University of Western Sydney.

Garcia Centre for Performing Arts

Four terraces bought by the Sisters of Charity before they were completed and converted to a school of singing and music.

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Gordon Public School building

Sandstone complex built in 1876 as the main school for the upper north shore area, now used by Gordon Library.

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Newtown High School of Performing Arts

Public school buildings which have been extended for over a century to accommodate the changing needs of education.

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Old Darlington School

Gothic Revival style brick school building designed by George Allen Mansfield built in 1878. In use as part of the Darlington Public School until 1975 when the land was transferred to University of Sydney. Surrounding buildings, including the Town Hall, were demolished. The building is now used by the University as a performance space.

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Ormond

Accommodation block used as a girls' home and later as a training school by the Child Welfare Department. As an annexe it provided housing for the privileged girls from Parramatta who were near the end of their sentence and had responded well to training.

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Paddington Public School building

Victorian Italianate two storey building with later wings and modern blocks surrounding.

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Perth House

Single storey Colonial/Victorian Georgian residence in Parramatta with stables and carriageway, a paved stone verandah and generous garden. It was also used as a school.

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Roman Catholic Orphanage

Two storey Georgian style building which featured a schoolroom, masters parlour and storeroom and both upper floors were fitted out with dormitories, staff and servants quarters. It was utilised for a variety of purposes in succeeding decades including an infamous reformatory and training school.

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SDN Woolloomooloo Children's Education and Care Centre

Purpose built centre for mothers and babies at 208 Dowling Street Woolloomooloo.

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St Brigid's Catholic church and school Millers Point

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Oldest Catholic church in Australia in continuous use, the building was constructed on the site of a quarry and used as a school since 1835. The second storey was added in 1935 to allow the lower storey to be used as a church.

St Josephs church hall, Rozelle

Former school and parish hall that is part of the St Joseph's Catholic church on Victoria Road, Rozelle. The original single storey hall was erected in 1905, and an additional storey and other facilities were added in 1915 by the builder Mr P Raines of Drummoyne to plans by architects Buchanan and McKay.

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St Patrick's Seminary Manly

Seminary of the Catholic church constructed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. It now houses a management college.

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St Stephen's parish hall, Newtown

The original St Stephen's Anglican church building in Newtown on the corner of Longford and Stephen street. Designed by Edmund Blacket and built on land donated by Elizabeth Bligh. It was consecrated in 1845 but as Newtown grew it quickly became too small and in 1871 the new, larger St Stephen's Anglican church was opened in the grounds of the Camperdown Cemetery. The older building was used as a day and Sunday School, and in 1907 was partially demolished and converted for use as a parish hall. In September 1938 a spark from a neighbour's burning rubbish landed on the building which was destroyed in the subsequent fire. Several children had been in the hall at the time rehearsing for a Sunday School concert but were all safely removed by the caretaker.

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St Vincent's College

Collection of school buildings on the site of Tarmons, a colonial mansion which housed the original St Vincent's Hospital. When the hospital moved the school expanded to accommodate over 700 girls.

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Stratford School for Girls

Building constructed in 1879 by Joseph (Jose) Guillermo Hay as the Blue Mountains Sanatorium and operated as a girls' school from 1919 until 1961.

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Sussex Street Public School

Former Victorian school building of face brick with sandstone trim. When it closed in 1912 the building was used for a mission hall for seafarers. It now houses offices.

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Sydney Conservatorium of Music building

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Designed by Francis Greenway as stables for the Government House that had been commissioned by Governor Macquarie in 1816, the building became the Conservatorium in 1916.

Sydney Girls High School building, Elizabeth Street

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School building on block of land that ran between Elizabeth and Castlereagh Streets. Built in 1824 after the original plans for Macquarie's public Georgian School on the opposite corner were modified and used instead as the Supreme Court, King Street. The school began operating as Sydney Public School in 1824 and was occupied by the St James' School in 1829. The building was resumed by the state government in 1882 for the establishment of the Sydney Boys and Sydney Girls High Schools. The building was demolished in 1922.

Sydney Technical College main building

Romanesque Revival style building in Mary Ann Street Ultimo designed by WE Kemp, Government Architect, and opened in 1892. It features carvings of Australian flora and fauna and several stained glass windows. It is flanked by two smaller Queen Anne style buildings. The one on the western side (designated 'Commercial High School') was used by Sydney Boys High School until 1928; the eastern building incorporates the College's Turner Hall.

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Tara

Family home in George Street Parramatta which was converted to a school for girls in 1912. It was later demolished.

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Technological Museum building Ultimo

Ornate symmetrical three storey building which, as the Technological Museum and later the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, exhibited examples of the skills and industry of the colony. Though the collection rapidly outgrew the building it was not relocated until the Powerhouse Museum was constructed in the 1980s. The building was then converted for educational purposes for the Sydney Institute of TAFE.

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UTS Tower

Lecture rooms and office accommodation erected for the University of Technology in the 1970s. Industrial action, design criticism and cost overruns meant construction was not completed for over eight years.

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WEA Newport (David Stewart Summer School)

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Residential centre or holiday camp established by the Workers' Educational Association Sydney branch at Newport on Sydney's northern beaches in 1924 for summer schools. The site was described in 1924 as 'the crest of a gentle slope overlooking Newport beach and within five minutes walk of Pittwater', The cost of the buildings was 7000 pounds, with much of the work done by the association's General Secretary David Stewart. When not in use by the WEA, the centre was used for conferences and meetings by other organisations. After his death in 1954, the centre was named the David Stewart Summer School. By the early 1970s the buildings had fallen into disrepair and despite plans for upgrades, in 1976 the site was sold.

Wahroonga Kindergarten

Kindergarten designed by architect Eleanor Cullis-Hill in 1954.

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