In the late 1830s the Government Architect, Mortimer Lewis, designed the Supreme Court House (still standing on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst). Its severely classical form was much admired — author Louisa Anne Meredith thought it the only ‘architectural’ building in Sydney, while publisher James Maclehose considered it representative of the ‘cottages, villas, and even mansions, partaking of a grandeur of character which could not have been contemplated in the early history of the colony [but which] are now to be seen in almost every direction…’ Government House can be seen in the distance.