City Photograph - 5 Martin Place and GPO Building by Miroslava Jurcik

5 Martin Place and GPO Building is a photograph by Miroslava Jurcik which was uploaded on April 20th, 2017.

5 Martin Place and GPO Building

5 Martin Place (you can see the internet page on the left above the entrance) was the first large scale steel-framed skyscraper in Australia and a... more

by Miroslava Jurcik

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Title

5 Martin Place and GPO Building

Artist

Miroslava Jurcik

Medium

Photograph

Description

5 Martin Place (you can see the internet page on the left above the entrance) was the first large scale steel-framed skyscraper in Australia and a building that defined Martin Place for almost a century.
The site on which the building at 5 Martin Place (108-120 Pitt Street) is located was originally inhabited by the Eora peoples, and part of the territory of the Cadigal group.
The site comprises part of the original grant given to Samuel Terry on 22 July 1817 (for an annual quit rent of £1/9/8). He erected a two storey dwelling on the land. Terry, said to have been transported to Australia for stealing geese, was one of the colony’s most colourful emancipists, garnering the epithet ‘The Rothschild of Botany Bay’. On his death in 1838, the land and buildings were acquired by John Hosking, Terry’s son-in-law.
Hosking (1806-1882) was a prominent merchant in the City and the first elected mayor of the City Council (1842-43).
In the 1850s, a major development was the creation of Brougham Place (later known as Rowe Street).
Following a change in fortune, Hosking’s land and buildings on Pitt Street were acquired from Mrs Martha Foxlowe Hosking (nee Terry) by Frederick Perks. Perks conducted a cordial and soft-goods business, and the site later became known as ‘Perk’s Corner’. The home of Sydney’s first private doctor, William Bland.
By 1882 Moore Street (later Martin Place) was formed.
Between 1929 and 1933 the building was greatly enlarged by an addition extending along Pitt and Rowe Streets. Designed by Edwin Henderson, Principal Architect with the Commonwealth Department of Works.
The building is now co-owned by Dexus property group and CBUS property and suites are now for lease.
If you like to see more old pictures and find out more about the history you can go here : http://5martinplace.com.au/history/
More at the back the building with clock tower is the GPO building.

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April 20th, 2017