Point Perpendicular was chosen in September 1883 as a site for a new lighthouse by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Captain Francis Hixson of the Marine Board.
One of a range of lighthouses built to a similar design by James Barnet. Constructed in 1880,
Government architect W.H. Withers began work on the building plans in 1939 for the Maritime Services Board (MSB) building.
It was as early as 1815 that Francis Greenway proposed building a bridge from the northern to the southern shore of the harbour.
In architectural style, the Sydney Town Hall is French Second Empire,
The architect Edmund Blacket designed the original Neogothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings, which were completed in 1862.
Started in 1837, the plans prepared by the architect James Hume, were of much more modest proportions and were for a traditional cruciform church in the Gothic style.
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