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works by Hockney, Warhol,
Lichtenstein and Christo was
transferred to this 1950s Art
Deco-style building at Circular
Quay West. As well as showing
its permanent collection, the
museum hosts exhibitions by
local and overseas artists. The
MCA Store sells distinctive gifts
by Australian designers.

3Cadman’s
Cottage
110 George St, The Rocks. Map 1 B2. @
Circular Quay routes from Elizabeth St.
 Circular Quay. Closed to the public.
Built in 1816 as barracks for
the crews of the governor’s
boats, this sandstone cottage
is Sydney’s oldest surviving
dwelling. Visitors can walk
around the small, historic site,
Old-fashioned Australian goods at the corner shop, Susannah Place but cannot enter the building.
The cottage is named after
1Susannah Place when the Builders Labourers’ John Cadman, a convict who
Federation imposed a “green was transported in 1798 for
58–64 Gloucester St, The Rocks. ban” on The Rocks, temporarily horse-stealing. By 1813, he
Map 1 B2. Tel (02) 9241 1893.
@ Sydney Explorer, Circular Quay halting all redevelopment work was coxswain of a timber
routes from Elizabeth St.  Circular which was destructive to boat and later, coxswain of
Quay, Wynyard. Open 2–5pm daily. cultural heritage. government craft. He was
Closed Good Fri, 25 Dec. & 8 granted a full pardon and
∑ sydneylivingmuseums.com.au in 1827 he was made boat
2Museum of superintendent and moved
This terrace of four brick and Contemporary Art to the four-room cottage
sandstone houses dating back Circular Quay West, The Rocks. Map 1 that now bears his name.
to 1844 has a rare history of B2. Tel (02) 9245 2400. @ Sydney Cadman married Elizabeth
continuous domestic Explorer, Circular Quay routes from Mortimer in 1830, another
occupancy from the 1840s Elizabeth St.  Circular Quay. Open ex-convict who was sentenced
through to 1990. It is now a 10am–5pm daily (to 9pm Thu). Closed to seven years’ transportation
museum examining the 25 Dec. 7 8 ∑ mca.com.au for the theft of one hairbrush.
living conditions of its former They lived in the cottage until
inhabitants. Rather than When Sydney art collector John 1845. Cadman’s Cottage was
re-creating a single period, the Power died in 1943, he left his built on the foreshore of
museum retains the renovations entire collection and a financial Sydney Harbour. Now, as
carried out by different tenants. bequest to the University of a result of successive land
Built for Edward and Mary Riley, Sydney. In 1991 the collection, reclamations, it is set well
who arrived from Ireland with which by then included back from the water’s edge.
their niece Susannah in 1838,
these houses have basement
kitchens and backyard
outhouses. Piped water and
sewerage were probably added
by the mid-1850s.
The terrace escaped the
wholesale demolitions that
occurred after the outbreak
of bubonic plague in 1900, as
well as later clearings of land
to make way for the Sydney
Harbour Bridge (see pp84–5) and
the Cahill Expressway. In the
1970s it was saved once again The Art Deco-style Museum of Contemporary Art, with the adjoining modern extension
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp482–3 and pp504–7