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343 George Street demonstrates all the qualities and attributes of the headquarters of a major 20th century national bank. In its quality and intactness - public areas and private banking offices - it is a remarkable survivor of a class of commercial buildings, now considered irrelevant to the image
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343 George Street has the ability to demonstrate extremely fine design qualities of both structure, form, decoration, fittings, fixings and furniture. It also incorporates workmanship and design of the very highest quality in the State. The design and execution of both
Australian and Carrara marble
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343 George Street is an extremely fine and representative example of a grand commercial banking headquarters in the
Palazzo style. It contains a remarkably intact interior, its arrangements representing a fine expression of commercial and public banking operations in the inter-war years in the city
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and area, and surviving original interiors of the executive areas are exceptionally fine and rare examples of design and craftsmanship of their period, The
Banking Chamber and Safe Deposit area are the finest and most intact marble finished bank interiors from the early 20th century in Sydney, the
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installed to match existing counters on ground floor; New cash counters installed behind existing marble-faced counter; New stair and partition to back lane on ground floor; and
Chandeliers fitted with new opal acrylic spheres and bawon
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1269:and hotels
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622:13 October
561:References
191:Commercial
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