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The Hopetoun Hotel, colloquially referred to as The Hoey, [1] is a historic Sydney hotel and live music venue in Surry Hills.It was built somewhere between 1836 and 1839, originally under the name of the Cookatoo Inn and then in 1901 revamped and named in honour of the first Governor General, Lord Hopetoun. [2]
It is one of only five hotels constructed in the Inter-War Functionalist style in the city during a short period between 1938 and 1942; [2] [3] the others are the Australian (Broadway), the Civic, the Kegroom Tavern, and Sutherlands. [4] The hotel is historically 'intact' having had no internal or external alterations of any kind.
The White Horse Hotel was constructed in the 1930s when Surry Hills was a working-class suburb. [2] British historian Jane Peyton writes that at that time, the hotel was a central gathering place for colourful characters. [2] Since then, Surry Hills has become gentrified over time and with it the Hotel has improved significantly.
Crown Street is a 2.3-kilometre (1.4 mi) street in the inner Sydney suburbs of Woolloomooloo, East Sydney, Darlinghurst and Surry Hills in New South Wales, Australia.The Surry Hills section is lined with restaurants and shops and includes the Crown Street Public School, the Surry Hills Library and Community Centre, and the White Horse Hotel.
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Captain Joseph Foveaux was the first Surry Hills landowner. Samuel Terry , an ex-convict controlled 19,000 acres of pastoral land at the southern end of the city in the area now known as Surry Hills. The Crown Hotel is located on the corner of Elizabeth and Goulburn streets, just outside the area of Donaldson's Farm and on land originally known ...
Elizabeth Street is a major street in the central business district of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The street continues south of the central business district (CBD), through the inner city suburbs of Surry Hills, Redfern and Waterloo, before terminating in Zetland. Elizabeth Street lies within the City of Sydney local government area.
Surry Hills is immediately south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. Surry Hills is surrounded by the suburbs of Darlinghurst to the north, Chippendale and Haymarket to the west, Moore Park and Paddington to the east and Redfern to the south. [2] It is often colloquially referred to ...