Hyde Park Barracks
Gaol or detention centre, Hostel, Court, Cultural organisationSydney landmark designed by Francis Greenway to house male convicts, which subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.
Types
1819
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1848
1848
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1886
1887
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1990
1990
Milestones
Constructed
1817
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1819
Hyde Park Barracks
by Laila Ellmoos, 2008
From convict barracks to female immigration depot to asylum for destitute women, Hyde Park Barracks has witnessed and revealed much of Sydney's social history.
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Hyde Park Barracks archaeology
by Peter Davies, 2010
Sydney's first 'big dig' at Hyde Park Barracks, and subsequent archaeological work, produced one of the best collections of nineteenth-century institutional material in the world. These items illuminate the lives and interests of the thousands of women who passed through this building during its history as an immigration depot and destitute asylum.
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