"View Terrace" are two heritage listed terrace houses along Gloucester Street in The Rocks. They were built in 1892 in the Victorian Italianate architectural style as part of an original line of five terrace houses. In 1911-1912 Cumberland Street was realigned and in doing so broke through the Gloucester Street alignment at Argyle Street which resulted in some of the terraces being demolished, The road level was raised by three metres and stairs built to Cumberland Street. They had remained as housing until 1980 when they became vacant and were in bad condition for a number of years. They were retained and conserved as part of a four level office development built behind them in 1986 along Cambridge Street.
Fortunately they've been saved.
ReplyDeleteWhat a tragedy that of the original line of five terrace houses, only a few were saved. The architecture (from the outside at least) is both gorgeous and historic.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame that so much heritage has been lost but great that some of it has been saved.
DeleteGlad they saved at least a couple of them...too bad about “progress” sometimes.
ReplyDeleteGreat capture and thanks for the information.
ReplyDeleteI'm shivering as I look at this photo, Jim, for I know it's winter in your part of the world.
ReplyDeleteWow that was odd. I just wrote an extremely long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn't show up. Grrrr... well I'm not writing all that over again. Regardless, just wanted to say wonderful blog!
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