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Ultimo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.It is adjacent to the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney west of the Darling Harbour area, and is bordered by Pyrmont to the north, the Sydney CBD and Chinatown/Haymarket to the east, Broadway and Chippendale to the south, and Glebe and Wentworth Park to the west.
The Ultimo House was built for surgeon John Harris in 1804, a two-storey residence overlooking Blackwattle Creek and Cockle Bay. [4] The Ultimo House became the oldest standing house in Sydney in 1932 and was used by Harris for small scale farming, however, it was predominantly for show, rather than production purposes. [5]
The Ultimo Post Office is a heritage-listed former post office located at 494 Harris Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of Ultimo in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The property is owned by Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Science, an agency of the Government of New South Wales.
As of 2022, the collection contains over 500,000 objects collected over the last 135 years, [1] many of which are displayed or housed at the site it has occupied since 1988, and for which it is named – a converted electric tram power station in the Inner West suburb of Ultimo, originally constructed in 1902 and is a well-known and popular ...
The Ultimo Power Station, or Ultimo Powerhouse, was an electricity generating plant located in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Ultimo, New South Wales.Commissioned in 1899, it was the first major power station in Sydney and was originally built to supply power for the electric tram network.
The current tallest building in Sydney, and the fourth tallest in Australia is Crown Sydney. Completed in 2020 it stands at a height of 271 m (889 ft), overtaking the Chifley Tower's previous title as tallest in Sydney, standing at a height of 244 metres (801 feet). An eastern view of the Sydney central business district skyline in 2023
On October 20, 1973 — exactly 50 years ago this Friday — the Sydney Opera House was opened to great fanfare by the late Queen Elizabeth II.. Completed a decade late and vastly over-budget, the ...
Vaucluse House This is a list of heritage houses in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The following houses are listed on the Commonwealth Heritage List, the New South Wales State Heritage Register, various local government heritage registers, and/or the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2019) House Built ...