During the month of Art & About 2012 (21 Sept – 21 Oct), The Last Drinks project installations have been projected onto the walls and surfaces of the city. For …
Installations Map
Last Drinks video and sound installations are located in and around the precinct of the former Hotel Australia every night from sunset during the Art & About Festival (21 September …
The Listening Post
Listen to these soundscapes and interviews as you explore the Last Drinks installations during the Art & About Sydney Festival. The Sounds of the Australia Hotel 1891 – 1971 Features …
A Peerless Institution
The Australia Hotel (1891 – 1971) was a Sydney icon, the darling of a city that wanted, more than anything, to be taken seriously on the world stage. The Hotel …
Fire Underwriters Map
You can zoom in close with this incredible map available through the State Library of NSW website. The details captured here help tell the story of the density of this …
Marry Me!
The Australia Hotel played host to thousands of special occasions every year – sometimes up to four wedding receptions a night, in fact. Diane Keenan writes: We were married on …
Castlereagh St in 1892
The Australia Hotel on Castlereagh St in 1892, shortly after its opening, captured by the Charles Kerry photographic studio. You really get a feel, not only for the size and …
Tales of Rowe St
Tales of Rowe St was written by Margaret Mary Pearson and published in 1947. Some of the tales from this little handwritten publication are reproduced here below.
Quite Bijou! Sydney’s original laneway
Sydney’s writers and artists felt quite some affection for neighboring Rowe St, a ‘street of the savant’ as Isadore Brodsky put it in the Streets of Sydney anthology from 1960. …
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