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Challis Avenue is a fine BOTANIC
and shady comple ment GARDEN AND
THE DOMAIN
to nearby Victoria Street.
This Romanesque group
of terrace houses has
an unusual façade, KINGS CROSS
AND
with arches fronting DARLINGHURST
deep verandas and
a grand ground-floor PADDINGTON
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 detailed high-rise
(see p122) in 1830–37.
apartment block.
It clearly exhibits
Landmark the Spanish Mission
Hotel in fluence that filtered
through from
California in the first
quarter of the
20th century.
C H A L L I S A V E N U E

M A C L E A Y S T R E E T

M A N N I N G S T R E E T
P L A C E B I L LYA R D A V E N U E
W
O
L 3. Elizabeth Bay House
S A contemporary exclaimed over
N U E
O N the beauty of the 1830s garden:
E “Trees from Rio, the West Indies,
L O W A V The Arthur from the Cape are splendid.”
the East Indies, China…the bulbs
C R I C K S T R E E T
McElhone
S Reserve
N
O

G R E E N K N O W E A V E N U E
Art Deco
Birtley Towers
E L I Z A B E T H 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 (see p122). He created a botanist’s
paradise with ornamental ponds, quaint grottoes and
Suggested route prome nades winding all the way down to the harbour.

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