Near Hyde Park (see big link at bottom), the Beanbah Chambers are an early 20th century professional building. At that time, 9 storeys was considered high-rise.


From north to south, this is the 1894 Sydney Hospital, replacing the earlier Rum Hospital across the street.


How many of these faces would you have spotted if I didn't crop out the closeups for you? They're sneaky, those little faces.


Speaking of the Rum Hospital, the South Wing thereof became the Sydney Mint, which is now the Old Sydney Mint. Because of all those past uses, it's now the oldest public building left in Sydney, dating to 1816!


St. Stephen's Uniting Church (1937) is across the street from the mint, just north of the hospital.


The 1910 Mitchell Building of the State Library of NSW is on the southeast corner of Shakespeare Place. The statue in front is Lt. General Sir Richard Burke KCB (Knight Commander of the Bath, which apparently is more honourable than lording over a tub would suggest). The blurry statue by the side is Matthew Flinders, English navigator who named Australia after circumnavigating it for the second time. (He apparently forgot to name it the first time.)


It wouldn't be Shakespeare Place without a Shakespeare Memorial sitting in the middle of it. Willy's on top and some of his figures are arranged below: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Portia, and Falstaff. Whoever selected these in 1926 is dead, so don't question it.


There's enough Art Deco here to hint that this building dates to 1930.


The Chief Secretary's Building was born in 1881 as the Colonial Secretary's Building, but only the lower half of it. The rest came in 1896. These photos head east along Bridge Street (see big link at bottom).


Architectural details of the north face of the building. The three figures at the northwest corner are Art, Science, and Labour from top to bottom (presented left to right here).


And on the northeast corner (at Macquarie Street), we feature Mercy, Justice, and Wisdom.


A couple of views of the Chief Secretary's Building from the north.


The Treasury Building is next north from Bridge Street along Macquarie Street. It was built in stages from 1851 to 1919.


Architectural details from the east side of the Treasury Building. The interlocking "I V R" is the royal insignia of Victoria, Regina Imperatrix, proving that some parts of this were complete in the 19th century.


Two more old buildings on Macquarie Street: the 1938 Transport House, which was the home of the Department of Road Transport and Tramways (relevant to both halves of my site!), and the 1928 Royal Auto Club of Australia, which was the home of the people who benefitted from the Department of Road Transport and Tramways.


The north end of the street is a roundabout with the Ann Lewis Fountain in the middle. There is also a view of the Sydney Opera House, which you can see grouped with my other Opera House photos.

South into Hyde Park (photos at Macquarie Street)
West onto Bridge Street
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