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Joseph Alexander Kethel
Joseph Alexander Kethel (31 January 1866 – 29 April 1946) was an Australians, Australian architect notable for the many substantial private residences and pastoral homesteads he designed throughout New South Wales and the striking theatres, office buildings and Presbyterian Churches he designed in Sydney. Biography Kethel was the son of Scottish-born Australian politician and timber merchant Alexander Kethel (1832–1916) and his wife Mary. He had a brother and three sisters. He grew up in the inner city suburbs of Sydney around Millers Point, New South Wales, Millers Point and Glebe, New South Wales, The Glebe. In 1888 his father built a grand Victorian Italianate mansion on the corner of Glebe Point and Wigram Roads Glebe known as ''Ben Ledi''. It was named after the mountain Ben Ledi in Scotland. The design of the family home is attributed to the Sydney architect Thomas Rowe who Kethel was Articled clerk, articled to when he studied architecture at Sydney Technical Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millers Point, New South Wales
Millers Point is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to The Rocks and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Millers Point lies on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, beside Darling Harbour. The Barangaroo development is taking place on 22 hectares of land on the western side of the suburb. Millers Point historically includes what are now known as the suburbs of Dawes Point and Barangaroo and the renaming of those parts of Millers Point is controversial (https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/millers_point). The original headland of Millers Point is now known as Barangaroo Reserve, though the point itself has been returned to its original name. History On 30 June 1814 Thomas Miller, a Sergeant in the 73rd Regiment of Foot, received a grant of land from the governor. A small mill that was owned by an ex-convict, Jack Leighton was located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
