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Sydney Architecture Images- Glebe University Hall |
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281 Broadway (corner Glebe Point Road and Broadway). |
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Victorian Italianate |
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Hotel |
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This was originally the University Hotel; now
University Hall, it is home to students from the nearby University of
Sydney. Outside is a fountain commemorating the 50th anniversary of
Glebe Municipality in 1909. If you face Parramatta Road from the
fountain, on the low wall just above ground level you will see a
memorial to the Aboriginal boxer Dave Sands, ‘Erected by Tom Lamings
Gymnasium, also Glebe supporters and admirers who knew him as he was’.
He was the Empire Middleweight champion and seemed destined for a
successful career, but died in a car accident in 1952. He is one of a
handful of Australians in the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.
To the right of the Sands Memorial is the stone marking the original
western boundary of the City of Sydney, bearing the name of Lt-Gen.
Richard Bourke, Governor of NSW 1831-37. In around 1990 the University Hall was renovated and expanded for use as apartments. During this process the foundations were undermined and half of the original curved structure collapsed. It was ingeniously copied and today it is impossible to tell the new half (the right...). |
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