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Lands Department Building
c. 1895Overview
Ornate stone building with stone parapet and chimneys. Stone pedestal and circular structure caps front elevation.
Historical information
The grand Victorian-era Lands Department Building on Bridge Street also has frontages to Loftus, Bent and Gresham streets and overlooks Circular Quay. It was built to house the Department of Lands and replaced the earlier Survey Office on this site. Architectural historians consider it is equivalent to the great public buildings of the British Empire and embodied the work of expanding and mapping the colony and state of New South Wales.
The first stage of the Lands Department Building, erected between 1876 and 1881, was designed by James Barnet, who was the NSW Colonial Architect from 1862 to 1890. Barnet also designed the second stage, which was begun in 1888 and completed in 1892, two years into Walter Liberty Vernon's tenure as Government Architect. The majority of the building, including the facades on Loftus, Bent and Gresham streets, was built during this second phase.
Source: Dictionary of Sydney
Details
Details
Registration number
cwa-org-28--9-171-a
Item type
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Contextual Information
Australian social history from the collection of photographs and albums donated to the museum by Raymond Sharkey's family.
Raymond John Sharkey an architect, surveyor and amateur photographer was born in 1868 in New South Wales. Raymond was a Claremont resident when he died at an early age.
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-33.863915, 151.209933
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- Lands Department Building Sydney (0km away)
- Chief Secretary's Office (0.22km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Sydney, Memorial to Horses, 1950 (0.32km away)
- General Post Office Sydney (0.47km away)
- Government House Sydney (0.66km away)
- Sydney Town Hall (1.09km away)
- Australian Museum Sydney (1.18km away)
- Inter War, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Darwin Mobile Force, SMITH, 1939 (1.34km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 429 KINGDON, 10 Light Horse (1.59km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 1197 STEWART, 10 Light Horse (1.59km away)
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Friday, 27 June, 2025
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Date of creation +70 years
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Acknowledgements to be made to 'Claremont Museum 09.171a'.
Copyright holder
Claremont Museum, Town of Claremont, Western Australia, 6010
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