Sydney - Macquarie Street

Macquarie Street, running north from Queens Square, was Sydney's most popular and most fashionable street, particularly in the second half of the 19th C, when two and three-storey houses in the Italian style, with verandas and views of the Domain and the harbor, were built here. In Macquarie Street are two relics of the early days of the colony, the Mint and Parliament House, both occupying wings of the old 'Rum Hospital'. The original track through the bush was named after Governor Macquarie in 1810, and 30 years later it was continued northward to Fort Macquarie, now Bennelong Point, the site of the Opera House. Since the building of Sydney Hospital in 1894 Macquarie Street has had strong medical associations.