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Free Public Library, corner of Bent & Macquarie Sts, Sydney, 18771877

by New South Wales. Government Printing Office
In 1845 the Australian Subscription Library moved to the corner of Macquarie and Bent Streets. It was taken over by the Government in 1869 and renamed the Free Public Library of NSW. It was demolished for the Premier Wing of the State Office Block (1967). This in turn was demolished for the Aurora Place/Macquarie Apartments complex, which won both the Wilkinson and Sulam architecture awards in 2004.
Call Number: 
SPF / 193
Published date: 
1877