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Modernist hospital building associated with the University of Sydney as the site of the original School of Dentistry which provides free orthodontic and dental services and was considered world best practise when designed in the 1930s.

Whaling was the other industry, apart from wool, that sustained the colony of New South Wales through its port, Sydney, in the first half of the nineteenth century.

In 1858, Sydney had become a bustling prosperous town, with a university, commercial centre, restaurants and fine town houses. As in London, though, these amenities existed side by side with poverty and misery for some citizens.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge did more than merely unite the two sides of the harbour; it inspired a city and a nation, long before it was even completed. Images of the bridge by Grace Cossington Smith, Henri Mallard and Harold Cazneaux are among the most iconic. While CJ Denis…

The orchestra grew out of the group of musicians assembled to perform incidental music for radio plays and broadcasts of concert repertoire for the newly established Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1932. Its first concert as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was given in…

Natural ice, imported from the lakes of the north-eastern United States, cooled the drinks of Sydneysiders for the first time in 1839. During the early 1850s, the trade provided relief during Sydney summers, as well as a spur to local engineers to improve ice manufacturing.…

In the late eighteenth century, and well into the nineteenth century, the tallest structures around Sydney Cove were windmills. They left few physical remains, yet their presence left a lasting legacy in early colonial landscape art and the minds and hearts of many…

Organisation founded in 1939 by Sydney journalists. The club occupied the third floor of Federation House at 166 Phillip Street from 1939 until 1958, and then built and occupied their own premises at Chalmers Street in Surry Hills. The club was wound up in 1997.

Legislation to incorporate and endow the University of Sydney was passed in 1850 with the first professors arriving in 1852 followed by a cohort of 24 candidates later that year. In 2016, the university has more than 53,000 students, supported by more than 3,500 academic…

Sydney Living Museums is the trading name of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, a statutory authority formed in 1980. It is one of the largest state museums in Australia and is entrusted with the care of key historic buildings and sites in New South Wales.

Sydney branch of the Chinese political party of Sun Yat Sen which supported the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a republican government in China. At different times in its history it has combined a political and quasi government role depending on Chinese…

Built on the site of Sydney's first official European cemetery, the Town Hall was designed by architect JH Willson in High Victorian style and constructed of Pyrmont sandstone. The highly ornate interiors have seen pomp and ceremony, protests and performance, and the building…

Theatres operated on more than two dozen sites in Sydney in the period 1796 to the 1930s. Only two of these sites still function as commercial theatres today, indicating a significant loss of the city's cultural memory.

Between 1984 and 1988, the Royal Australian Historical Society, in partnership with the City of Sydney and the State Bank of New South Wales, produced 101 commemorative plaques that were installed around the city's CBD on historic sites and buildings to commemorate the…

Charity established to provide health care services and medicine to underprivileged adults and children in Sydney’s poorest inner suburbs that operated between 1900-1917. It was established by Dr Julie Carlile-Thomas and funded by Emma Dixson. Its first premises consisted of…

On 25 February 2013, Sydneysiders woke to a rainbow crossing painted at the intersection of Taylor Square and Oxford Street, Darlinghurst - the starting point of Sydney's first ever Gay Mardi Gras march in 1978. Despite community support for the crossing, it was removed on 10…

Vocational education and training college at St Leonards which provides courses in hairdressing, shop fitting, vehicle repair and telecommunications.

Church of England school for boys at North Sydney opened in 1889.

Chamber music quartet.