Sydney Architecture Images- Tusculum

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	Sydney Architecture Images- Eastern Suburbs Tusculum
architect	John Verge
location	Potts Point
date	1830-32
style	Old Colonial Regency
construction	rendered brick
type	House
	Following images with special thanks to Michael Greenhalgh.




When the first land grants were made on Woolloomooloo Hill (now Potts Point) houses there had to meet a series of conditions: they had to cost at least £1000, face the city, and be approved by the Governor. Tusculum, designed by John Verge for the merchant Alexander Brodie Spark and completed in 1835, was typical of the mansions that once dominated the landscape of this precinct. Originally there was an open colonnade of Doric columns at ground level, but in 1851 merchant William Long rebuilt it with the two-storey Ionic colonnade we see today. Tusculum went through many uses, ending up near-derelict before being restored in 1988, as home of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. A new building at the rear contains an architectural bookshop open to the public.
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