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Images- Leichhardt and area Leichhardt Post Office. |
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architect |
prob. James
Barnet |
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Norton Street Leichhardt |
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date |
1888 |
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Victorian Academic Classical and Victorian Italianate |
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construction |
rendered brick |
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Government |
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| Leichhardt Post Office, built in 1888 and Leichhardt’s iconic Town Hall, built the same year on Norton Street were a source of great municipal pride when opened; the suburb, many thought, had truly ‘come of age’. The opening of Leichhardt’s Town Hall drew a crowd of 5 000. | |
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| A makeshift living room seen outside the PO in July 2009. | |
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