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  Sydney Architecture Images- Leichhardt and area

Leichhardt Post Office.

architect

prob. James Barnet  

location

Norton Street Leichhardt

date

1888

style

Victorian Academic Classical  and Victorian Italianate

construction

rendered brick

type

Government
 
  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.
 
 
 
 
 
  A makeshift living room seen outside the PO in July 2009.
 

 

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