Friday 3 April 2015

Camperdown, University of Sydney, Main Building

The Main Building is part of the Quadrangle Group of buildings on the University of Sydney campus, in the inner city suburb of Camperdown. It was designed by Edmund Blacket and James Barnet in the Victorian Academic Gothic architectural style and built around 1854. This view of the main entrance is from inside the Quadrangle.
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15 comments:

  1. Jim, that is such a beautiful and statuesque building, and a great pictures as well.

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  2. Academic castle. Nice shot



    ALOHA from Honolulu
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  3. Such a beautiful building and your "forever" blue, blue skies are the perfect backdrop!! Terrific capture for the day, Jim, as always! Have a great weekend!

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  4. What a grand building. I love the different color stone. They built them to last back then.

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  5. nice shot Jim! nice to read some history about it too :-)

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  6. I always love it when you come back to mid 19th century architecture at Sydney Uni. It looked so.. handsome... and scholarly.

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