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Challis Avenue is a fine botanic
and shady complement gardens and
the domain
to nearby Victoria Street.
This Romanesque group
of terrace houses has
an unusual façade,
with arches fronting kings cross
deep verandas and darlinghurst
and
a grand ground paddington
floor colonnade.
Locator Map
see street Finder, map 2
Rockwall, a symmetrical and
compact Regency villa, was
built to the designs of the Del Rio is a finely
architect John Verge in detailed high-rise
1830–37.
apartment block.
It clearly exhibits
Landmark the Spanish Mission
Hotel influence that filtered
through from
California in the first
quarter of the
20th century.
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L 3. Elizabeth Bay House
s A contemporary exclaimed over
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O N the beauty of the 1830s garden:
E “Trees from Rio, the West Indies,
A V The Arthur the East Indies, China…the bulbs
C R I C K s t R E E t
L O W McElhone from the Cape are splendid.”
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Art Deco
G R E E N K N O W E A V E N U E
Birtley Towers
B A Y R O A D
0 metres 50
0 yards 50 Elizabeth Bay was part of the original land grant to
Key Alexander Macleay. He created a botanist’s paradise with
ornamental ponds, quaint grottoes and promenades
Suggested route winding all the way down to the harbour.