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An access shaft is located at the museum. For a brief period during the 1930s Victoria Barracks was home to the Royal Military College, Duntroon, when the college was forced to close its buildings in Canberra and relocate to Sydney due to the economic downturn caused by the Great Depression. [3]
Paddington Hall. The following buildings are on the Register of the National Estate: [13] Victoria Barracks (1841–48) Paddington Town Hall (1890–91) Paddington Public School (1870 and 1892 buildings) Uniting Church and Parsonage (1877) [14] [15] St Matthias Church Group (1859–61) Former St Mattias Rectory (1873) St Matthias Church Hall (1882)
Officer's quarters, Victoria Barracks. After the commencement in 1841 of Victoria Barracks the village of Paddington soon emerged, much of it around the cottages of the many artisans –stonemasons, quarrymen, carpenters and labourers – who were working on the construction of the Barracks. What emerged was a clear class distinction; the ...
The first major development encroaching onto the Sydney Common was the siting of Victoria Barracks on the Old South Head Road (now Oxford Street) on the north east of the common. Designed in 1838 and completed ten years later, the Barracks was strategically sited between Port Jackson and Botany Bay to prevent an enemy invasion.
The Paddington Town Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall building located at 249 Oxford Street in the inner eastern Sydney suburb of Paddington, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. Sir Henry Parkes laid its foundation stone in 1890 when Paddington was a separate municipality.
The other military barracks constructed in this period was the Sydney Barracks located in the area around Wynyard Park. The Sydney Barracks (erected by 1792) remained in use until 1848 when new barracks at Paddington were completed. The site of the original barracks was subdivided and residences and shops were built at this location.
"Hyde Park Barracks Museum". 2007. Abrahams, Hector (2016). The Gates of the Sydney Mint: a long (and convoluted) history. Attraction Homepage (2007). "Mint Building and Hyde Park Barracks Group". Cumberland County Council (1962). Historic Buildings: Central Area of Sydney, Volume II. Historic Houses Trust (2007). "Hyde Park Barracks Museum".
Convict Barracks, Sydney, Australia, c.1819 Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, 1840s Hyde Park Barracks in a 1914 drawing by William Hardy Wilson. The Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney is a heritage-listed former barracks, hospital, convict accommodation, mint and courthouse and now museum and café located at Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government ...