Daking House - Sydney - NSW - Australia
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S 33° 52.898 E 151° 12.342
56H E 334060 N 6249519
YHA Sydney Central / Daking House
Waymark Code: WMVQRE
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 05/19/2017
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Statement of Significance
An early example of the Commercial Palazzo style, which features powerful massing, strict symmetry and good relationship of height to detail. Daking House is significantly related (by its massing and similarity of style) to the Central Railway Station buildings opposite.
Description
A nine storey building with third to seventh floors of face brick, top floor stuccoed and bottom floors stuccoed in imitation ashlar. Elaborate wreath decorations around the circular windows on the top floor; wide, Classically inspired eaves; stuccoed string course at each level; at sixth floor level there is a small cupola in each corner supported on columns. Entrance has coffered plaster ceiling, original doors, etched glass lights and brass door.
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The corner stone was laid by the owner's wife in February 1913 and the foundations of the new building, which covered all the blocks between Rawson Place and Rawson Lane, were laid immediately afterwards. The architects for the work were Power and Adam and the builders were John Howie and Sons. Wunderlich supplied the pressed metal ceilings. The cost of the building was estimated at 50,000 pounds. The ground floor was intended for shops and those above for offices and warehouses. In all the new building comprised ten floors including a basement. It had four elevators.
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