1st Sydney T & G Building

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1st Sydney T & G Building
1st Sydney T & G Building

trove.nla.gov.au/work/255537821 - cropped from this NLA Enemark Collection E.B. Studios panorama...

trove.nla.gov.au/work/255540052 - another E.B. Studios panorama of the T & G Buiilding...

I'm guessing...but I think these E.B. Studios pics might have been taken in the early/mid 1920s...

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This was the 1st Sydney T & G Building...it was situated on the SW corner of Elizabeth/Park Sts. The Temperance and General Life Assurance Society had their main Sydney office here...the rest of the building was leased out as offices and residential apartments...the building also evidently included a cafe, a restaurant and a laundry...

This 1st Sydney T & G Building started life as Dixon & Sons' Tobacco Factory, built ca. 1882-83...in 1911 it was purchased by the T & G Life Assurance Society...who subsequently made extensive renovations and additions. The T & G rebuild appears to have commenced in early 1914 and wasn't fully competed until later 1915...though parts of the building were being advertised for lease in late 1914...so my guess is a significant portion of the building was completed by late 1914...

In the 1920s the building was resumed by the Sydney City Council so that Park St could be widened...T & G then continued to occupy the building as tenants until work began on the new T & G Building, which was erected in its place on the new slightly smaller allotment...this 1st T & G Building was demolished in stages between ca. 1928-30 as the new 2nd T & G Building was erected beside it...

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trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15286607 - the SMH, 4th November, 1911...'Real Estate'...reference here to the Temperance and General Life Assurance Society's recent purchase of Dixson's Tobacco Factory...the price was 'in the vicinity of £90,000'...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228813381 - the Sun, 12th August, 1912...brief item on the proposed remodelling of Dixson's Tobacco Factory...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15491596 - the SMH, 13th January, 1914...'Buildings and Works'...brief description of the planned renovations and additions...indicates that the building work had commenced the previous week...

nla.gov.au/nla.obj-265015070/view?sectionId=nla.obj-27335... - Building, 12th June, 1914...pic of the T & G Building under construction here...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28108430 - the SMH, 4th November, 1915...brief item on the official opening...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120799685 - the Sunday Times, 7th November, 1915...this advertorial includes a brief description of the building...plus a photo...

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