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Kirribilli is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. One of the city's most established and affluent neighbourhoods, [ 2 ] it is located three kilometres north of the Sydney central business district , in the local government area administered by North Sydney Council .
A small portion of the Kirribilli Point land, a little over 0.40-hectare (1-acre) was sold by Travers in 1854 to a merchant, Adolph Frederic Feez. On this land, Kirribilli House was built in neo-Gothic style . Kirribilli House, situated next door to Admiralty House, serves today as the official Sydney residence of the Prime Minister of Australia.
Greencliffe, one of North Sydney's former early sandstone homes, occupied a prime position on the corner of what is now Jeffrey Street and Kirribilli Avenue at 51–53 Kirribilli Avenue. The original house was built in the 1860s by Mrs Mary Paul, who ran a boarding house nearby at Milsons Point in 1858–1859.
Feez lived in Kirribilli House for several years which was then called Sophienberg. [8] He then moved to Balmain. [9] He married Frederica and had two children while living in Sydney. [10] While on a business trip to Fiji he died in 1869 at the age of only 43. [11] Frederica returned with her children to live in Germany.
The houses were acquired by North Sydney Council in 1974 and the modern day Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre opened in 1976. [1] The Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre is now run as a community neighbourhood centre by a committee governed by the North Sydney Council. The centre provides spaces for community activities and parties or celebrations.
St John the Baptist, Kirribilli was designed by Edmund Blacket as a church school, in the Romanesque Revival style, and built in 1884. [4] A vestry and sanctuary were added in 1900. [4] The nearby kindergarten was built as a church hall in 1909. [4] The church was listed on the North Sydney Council local government heritage register on 2 August ...
From there, services proceed in a loop, stopping at North Sydney, Neutral Bay and Kurraba Point. The journey is completed by returning to Kirribilli and Circular Quay. Services operate every half an hour on weekdays and every hour at night and on weekends. [1] A RiverCat ferry in Neutral Bay. The North Sydney skyline can be seen in the distance.
Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre; L. Loreto Kirribilli; S. St Aloysius' College (Sydney) This page was last edited on 31 August 2018, at 13:05 (UTC). ...