Macquarie Street, Sydney
Macquarie Street houses several of the most interesting - The State Library of New South Wales, Parliament House, Sydney Hospital, the Old Mint (now a museum) and Hyde Park Barracks and the Land Titles Office. Macquarie Street is named after Lachlan Macquarie, an early Governor of New South Wales (1810-1821), and was designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare. Macquarie initiated the construction of Sydney’s first public buildings of any real permanence and set the boundaries of Sydney’s grid of streets. It became the colony’s preeminent residential address. Read more
