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Free Public Library, corner of Bent & Macquarie Sts, Sydney, 1877 / New South Wales Government Printing Office

Format: Albumen photoprint

 

Notes: In 1845 the Australian Subscription Library moved to the corner of

Macquarie and Bent Streets. It was taken over by the Government in

1869 and renamed the Free Public Library of NSW. It was demolished for the Premier Wing of the State Office Block (1967). This in turn was demolished for the Aurora Place/Macquarie Apartments complex, which won both the Wilkinson and Sulman architecture awards in 2004.

 

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