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Admiralty House, Sydney

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hardwood and cedar joinery came from George Coleson's timber-yard in George Street, Sydney. Gibbes engaged James Hume, a well-known builder who dabbled in ecclesiastical architecture, to supervise the construction of the building and its stables. Gibbes, however, hired his own masons, bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers and ironmongers to work on the project, paying each of them separately as work progressed. Gibbes used the Custom Department's cutter to commute to and from the building site. Once completed, Gibbes' L-shaped residence featured a plain, yet stylish, double façade to maximise the building's magnificent, sweeping views across Sydney Harbour. These views enabled Gibbes to monitor shipping traffic in and out of Darling Harbour and, more importantly, Circular Quay, where the Sydney Customs House was situated.
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The ground floor of the house contains a vestibule and hallway, two reception rooms, a dining-room, a study and an elaborate central staircase. The residents' private rooms are on the upper floors. A landing on the staircase features elaborate stained glass panels in its windows. Kitchens and other
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1,400. On 27 December 1851, Gibbes, who was contemplating a departure from the Customs Service at the age of 64, sold the property to James Lindsay Travers, a merchant of Macquarie Place, Sydney, for £1,533. (Gibbes subsequently changed his mind about leaving his position as head of the NSW Customs
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In April 1874, Wotonga House was auctioned and bought for £10,100 by Thomas Cadell, a Sydney merchant and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1881 to 1896. At that time, the house was described as possessing a wide verandah, a spacious entrance hall, drawing and dining rooms, 10
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On the superb Kirribilli Point location, Gibbes erected, between 1842 and 1843, a graceful single-storey house with wide verandahs and elegant French doors. Gibbes designed the house, which he called "Wotonga" (or "Woottonga"), himself. The stone for the house's walls was quarried locally and the
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In 1856, Lieutenant-Colonel Barney bought the house and its grounds so that he could view all of the sites that he had fortified. In September 1860, Barney sold the house and grounds for £9,000 to George Alfred Lloyd. In 1866, it was let to Frederick Lassetter and subsequently to
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now crosses the harbour. A plan of sub-division was drawn up in the 1840s by Campbell. In 1842, the 2.0-hectare (5-acre) site where Admiralty House now sits was leased to the Collector of Customs for the Colony, Lieutenant-Colonel (later full Colonel)
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Today, Wotonga forms the core of Admiralty House and the building's 180-degree, east–west panoramic sight-lines are even more spectacular than they were in Gibbes' day, owing to the subsequent high-rise growth of Sydney's CBD.
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on 20 February 1794 to an expired convict, Samuel Lightfoot. Lightfoot was a former convict, born in about 1763 and transported to Australia for seven years for stealing clothing. He arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 on the
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Admiralty House, its grounds, and Kirribilli House are usually open to the public once a year, sometime in spring when the gardens are at their best. Security concerns caused the cancellation of openings from 2001 to 2005.
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bedrooms and the "'usual rooms"" in the main part of the house, as well as having a large courtyard, servant's rooms, kitchen, stables, etc., with an abundant water supply, which never failed in the driest weather.
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Formal title to Admiralty House finally passed from the State Government to the Commonwealth by Crown grant in 1948, on the condition that the house was to be used only as a residence for the Governor-General.
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Four years later the Colonial Secretary recorded that the land grant to Lightfoot was cancelled and given to Robert Ryan in 1800 with no mention of the intermediate (private) sale to Muir. Ryan had worked in
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With the departure of the last British Admiral from Admiralty House in 1913, the Admiralty handed the house back to the New South Wales Government. This provided Lord Denman's successor, Sir
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officer, lived in "Wotonga" and designed and supervised the installation of a battery of five, 8-inch (20 cm) muzzle-loading guns on Kirribilli Point, as well as constructing the
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Note that this was not the earliest grant on the north shore, earlier grants had occurred since 1792 (e.g. to John or Joseph Carter) at the Field of Mars further up the north shore
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A small portion of the Kirribilli Point land, a little over 0.40-hectare (1-acre) was sold by Travers in 1854 to a merchant, Adolph Frederic Feez. On this land,
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Kirribilli was settled early in the history of the Colony. One of the first records of land being granted on the North Shore was 12 hectares (30 acres) on the
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In 1849, Robert Campbell died and the executors of the estate sold the property, comprising the house and 2.0 hectares (5 acres) land, to Gibbes for about
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Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes and Elizabeth Gibbes, 1865. The building that would become Admiralty House was initially erected by the Gibbes family.
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Cancelled, and a New Grant given to Robert Ryan for 90 acres in addition to this Allotment, by Governor Hunter. See the third Register, Folio 37.
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foreshores, and in the surrounding bushland. The area was a fertile fishing ground, and the name Kirribilli is derived from the Aboriginal word
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The house is furnished extensively with colonial furniture, porcelain, ornaments and numerous historical artworks such as portraits of Captain
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was built in neo-Gothic style . Kirribilli House, situated next door to Admiralty House, serves today as the official Sydney residence of the
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Admiralty House is an official residence of the Governor-General of Australia, and accommodates important overseas visitors to Sydney. The
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service areas are housed in a wing added to the original structure. A stone gatehouse guards the front entrance to the establishment.
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This grant to Ryan included almost all Kirribilli and later maps referred. By 1801, the property had passed into the hands of
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In 1913, this part of the history of Admiralty House came to a close when the last British admiral left the house and the
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end of Kirribilli (not near Admiralty house) and was named "Huntershill" by Thomas Muir, after his father's home in
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reclaimed the tip of Kirribilli Point, on which fortifications were built. These fortifications, along with
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Its current name originates in the fact that it served as the residence for the Commander-in-Chief of the
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decided to put the building to public purposes once more, leaving the Governor-General of the period,
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The Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia: The History of Admiralty House: 1794–1948
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Land grants 1788–1809, page 18-19, Grant No. 151 (believed to be a reproduction of AO reel 2560)
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The original building on the site was completed, as a private dwelling, in mid-to-late 1843, by
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Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under
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Admiralty House in 1930. The building was closed that year, and was not reopened until 1936.
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family and remained in Sydney for the better part of eight years, eventually retiring to
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Campbell's property in Kirribilli was used for grazing under lease to Campbell's friend
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Gibbes, incidentally, was said to be the illegitimate child of His Royal Highness
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Admiralty House, Sydney – Brief History and Catalogue of Contents of State Rooms
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The residence, when it was known as Wotonga, and owned by Thomas Cadell, c. 1880
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Official residence of the Governor-General of Australia in Kirribilli, Sydney
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and the Pope, are entertained at Admiralty House when they are in Sydney.
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was used as the Sydney residence of the Governor-General. In 1912, the
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Missing land grants in New South Wales, 1792–1800, A. G. L. Shawa
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Before the arrival of British settlers in Sydney Harbour, the
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Robert Campbells Estate, Milsons Point and Kirribilli, Sydney
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took over responsibility for the naval defence of Australia.
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North Sydney Council: The Face of North Sydney Image Library
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Gibbes, Stephen, "John Gibbes: Builder of Admiralty House",
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Developed for the Department of Housing and Construction
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Admiralty House, Kirribilli

Admiralty House is located in Sydney
Greater Sydney
Viceregal residence
Governor-General
Victorian Regency
Victorian Italianate
Kirribilli
Sydney
New South Wales
Coordinates
33°51′06″S 151°13′06″E / 33.851735°S 151.218245°E / -33.851735; 151.218245
John George Nathaniel Gibbes
Commonwealth Government
Sydney sandstone
James Barnet
Walter Liberty Vernon
Colonial Architect
Commonwealth Heritage List
Sydney
official residence
governor-general of Australia
Kirribilli
Sydney Harbour
Kirribilli House
Prime Minister
Victorian Regency
Italianate
sandstone

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