Regret At Demolition Of Historical Building
^ Received Wednesday, S.40 p.m. SYDNEY, August 18. Oue of the oldest buildings in Aus tralia — Surgeon 's Cottage on Observatory llill, Svdney — is being pulled down by the Education Department to make way for a gynuiasiuni to be used by the Girls' Iligh School. The building is 152 years old. The secretary of the Royal Aus tralian llistorical Society, Mr. P. Conigrave, said today that his society viewed the demolition with extrenie concern but that it had been able to do nothing as it could not find out whn was responsible. The cottage Avas bnilt under the direction of Governor Hunter in 1.7!)(i, eight years after the founding of the colony of New South Wales. It was in the grounds of the hospital, the main building of ivhich was erected bv llovernor Hacquarie in 1815 aiul has been used by the Fort Street School for nearly a centurv. News of the demolition follotvs close upon the destruction of the Old Shiji nnd Mermaid inn in Grosnevor Street. .-ind to have iieen the Svdney home of .loseph Oonrad and to have been frequentlv visited by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 August 1948, Page 5
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