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90/586-1 Architectural model, 'Temple Court / Vaughan's Chambers', part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975. Click to enlarge.
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Architectural model 'Temple Court/Vaughan's Chambers'

Made
  • 1970-1975
This is one of 23 architectural models representing King Street, Sydney, in the 1890s. The streetscape reveals a lost city of trades, shops and entertainment, in buildings of a human scale. King Street was a magnet at night and by day a retail mecca.

Yet Sydney was also taking on its modern form as a business and professional centre, with architecture to match. This lost city catches Sydney at a cross roads in its history. A bustling variety of people and activities began to make way for a …

This object is part of

90/586 Architectural models (23), King Street Sydney streetscape, c 1880, plywood/cardboard/fabric/celluloid, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1956-1977
Architectural models of King Street made by Jack Montgomery
1970-1975

Summary

Object No.

90/586-1

Object Statement

Architectural model, 'Temple Court / Vaughan's Chambers', part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975

Physical Description

Architectural model, 'Temple Court / Vaughan's Chambers', part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975

The model shows Vaughan's Chambers in King Steet, Sydney, occupied by John E. Browne, architect and surveyor (top floor); George W. Dunn, solicitor; the Trade Institute Office with William Bretnall Secretary; and Michael J. Fitzpatrick, land agent (on middle floor). Next door in Temple Court is the Presbyterian Newspaper Co.

Short URL

https://ma.as/108482

Dimensions

Height

550 mm

Width

885 mm

Depth

575 mm

Production

Made

  • 1970-1975

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Architectural model 'Temple Court/Vaughan's Chambers' 2021, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 1 June 2023, <https://ma.as/108482>

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