1888 – A Garden House, Sydney, Australia
Architect: Maurice B. Adams
Design for front entrance porch to a house in Bellevue,
In architectural style,
Designed by colonial architect James Barnet,
Named after The Strand in London,
Block bound by Bridge,
The Federation Free Style building is a three storey plus basement brick former office building constructed on a steep site on what is a prominent Macquarie Street corner.
Point Perpendicular was chosen in September 1883 as a site for a new lighthouse by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Captain Francis Hixson of the Marine Board.
Occupying an entire city block, with four monumental and elaborate facades in a Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Regarded as an excellent example of the Australian Federation Carpenter Gothic architectural style.