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90/586-5 Architectural model, 'Star and Garter Hotel' and various shopfronts, part of King Street, Sydney, streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975. Click to enlarge.
  • Image 1 of 1, 90/586-5 Architectural model, 'Star and Garter Hotel' and various shopfronts, part of King Street, Sydney, streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975. Click to enlarge

Architectural model 'Star and Garter Hotel'

Made
  • 1970-1975
This is one of 23 architectural models representing King Street, Sydney, in the 1880s. This 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.

90/586-5

Object Statement

Architectural model, 'Star and Garter Hotel' and various shopfronts, part of King Street, Sydney, streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975

Physical Description

Architectural model, 'Star and Garter Hotel' and various shopfronts, part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975

This model represents Nos 104 to 112 King Street, Sydney. At No. 104 is the Star and Garter Hotel. At No. 106 is Joel Hart, auctioneer, 'chattels bought and sold'. At No. 108 is John Lebarbe, butcher. At No. 110 is Geraud Leonard, confectioner, 'confections, sweets and confitures, acid drops, butter balls, lolly pops, hore hound candy, glace mix, conversations, aniseed balls, molasses taffy, bulls eyes'. At No.112 Sam l.Homes, baker 'also at 26 Oxford St and Mount Street in Victoria'.

Short URL

https://ma.as/108514

Dimensions

Height

445 mm

Width

667 mm

Depth

575 mm

Production

Made

  • 1970-1975

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