Your Place in History
Visit Woollahra Municipal Library - the Local History Centre. You might find that your building has a place in history. Let the QSWWA know where your building is, who lived there and when, by emailing admin@qswwa.com.au.

Some interesting places in history in
Queen Street and West Woollahra

First WMC Chambers
Town Clark Residence
1864-1964
(now Goethe Institut)

14 Queen St
Dr Frederick Harrison Quaife
Surgeon
1870-1902
(now The Hughenden)

34 Queen Street
Dowell O'Reilly 1865-1923
Poet and Short Story Writer, Father of writer Eleanor Dark
Member of Parliament who introduced the first Bill for Women's Suffrage in 1895

115 Queen St
Dame Joan Sutherland
1932-51

'Lorelei'
Heinrick Dorhauer
Master Builder and Cabinet Maker
1880-1960
(now Dorhauer Carpark)

124-128 Queen St
Shops established by William Latimer
Member of State Parliament 1901-1934
Mayor of Woollahra 1900-1910

135 Queen St
Banjo Patterson
1903-1908

57 Ocean St
Dr Harry Windsor
First heart surgeon
1978-87

ALL SAINTS' CHURCH
Ocean Street, Woollahra.
Large Victorian Academic Gothic sandstone parish church, chancel, apse and portion of nave built in 1876; last three bays of nave completed in 1883 (Blacket), first floor of tower, north and south porches to Blacket's designs, 1926 (H.C. Kent) The major benefactor was Henry Mort.

SHOPS
The proliferation of shops along Queen Street in Woollahra originated from Mr Bill Bradshaw opening one at 96 Queen Street in 1957. This was the catalyst for the revitalisation of Queen Street which for many years was dominated by the antique and gallery businesses. Recently, many fashion boutiques have opened in the street.

COTHAM
316 Jersey Road, Edgecliff.
This two-storeyed residence was for a time an unofficial rectory for All Saints' Church in Woollahra. Its first rector, Canon Wallace Mort, lived there.

DAVIES RESERVE
Corner of Queen and Oxford Sts, Woollahra.
Named in honour of AId. C.W. Davies, Woollahra alderman during late 1940s and 1950s, mayor in 1953. The Reserve acquired a fine Victorian garden piece in November 1987.

GADEN RESERVE
Corner of Ocean St and Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra.
Laid out in 1947, it was named in honour of John Gaden, OBE, alderman of Woollahra 1934-48 and mayor in 1940. The Senior Citizens' Centre was opened in 1960 as one of Woollahra Council's Centenary projects.

HEATHFIELD
Heathfield was one of the earliest houses in the Wallis/Nelson Street area of Woollahra. Council records indicate that it was in existence in 1871. The Heathfield site was originally leased from the extensive estates of Sir Daniel Cooper. The land remained part of Cooper's estate until 1930. Over the years Heathfield had many rate paying lessees the earliestbeing JR Treeve who sublet Heathfield to William Wilkinson in 1871.

HOLDSWORTH STREET
Denison Street was the original name for Holdsworth Street, Woollahra and renamed in honour of a councillor of the first Woollahra Council in June 1913.

HOLDSWORTH ST CENTRE
Holdsworth St, Woollahra.
Acquired in 1939, the park was reclaimed from swamp forming the upper reaches of the creek that flowed into Rushcutters Bay. The Centre opened as a playground in 1940 and was extended in 1976.

JERSEY ROAD
Originally called Point Piper Road and built by Captain John Piper to give access to his Henrietta Villa on today's Point Piper. His road followed present day Jersey Road, Ocean Street/Ocean Avenue, William Street, Double Bay and New South Head Road and was positioned to avoid the reed swamps in Rushcutters and Double Bays. It was renamed Jersey Road in 1900 in honour of the Earl of Jersey, NSW State Governor from 1890 to 1893.

NELSON STREET
Was named after Lord Horatio Nelson (Viscount Nelson) British naval commander at Trafalgar.

ODDFELLOWS' HALL
38 Queen St, Woollahra.
Initiated by the 'Loyal Rose of Denmark, No 39 Lodge of the Manchester United Independent Order of Oddfellows', it was built in 1870 (Hilly) and restored in the 1970s by Leo and Ann Schofield.

MONCUR STREET UNITING CHURCH
Victorian Gothic Congregational Church built in 1875 (Backhouse). The major benefactor was James Reading Fairfax. It ceased being used as a church in the 1980s and was gutted by fire in January, 1989.

ROSEMONT
Rosemont Ave, Woollahra.
The house was built around 1857 (one of the first in the area) by Alexander Campbell, subsequent owners included the Hon. J.T. Walker, Sir Chades Mackellar (ex Dunera), Sir Samuel Cohen and the Lloyd Jones family. The house survives but is surrounded by houses built after a 1912 subdivision.

ST KEVIN'S
117 Queen Street, Woollahra. The house was built between 1892 and 1893 for Dr Patrick Collins to the designs of John Bede Barlow and is the only known building by this architect surviving unaltered. It was restored in the 1970s by Leo Schofield.

TARA STREET
Named after the house Tara, later known as Rancliffe in Ocean Street, Woollahra.

QUIRIANG
A demolished house, 6 Trelawney Street, Woollahra.
The Regency house occupied the block Edgecliff Road, Trelawney Street, Fullerton Road (previously Oatley Street) and Wellington Street, built by the Hon. John Duncan MacLean, pastoralist; occupied by Mr Walter Lamb (1877-80), the Hon. William Halliday, M.L.C. (1895). It was replaced by the high rise block of the same name, No 6 Trelawney Street.

WESTBOURNE
17 Jersey Road Woollahra.
A prominent sandstone house showing a mix of Victorian Gothic and Italianate styling, built in 1868 for the Rev. John West who was editor of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1854. It has decorative barge board gables, quoined corners and faceted bay windows.

WOOLLAHRA
Believed to be based on the Aboriginal name for Lookout Woo-la-ra (reported by Daniel Southwell in a letter to his uncle 12 July), 1788 and chosen by Sir Daniel Cooper for the name of his proposed house. The name was no doubt given to the Municipality in 1860 in deference to the Coopers who owned most of the land that it comprised.

WOOLLAHRA PUBLIC SCHOOL
Forth Street, Woollahra. Built in 1877 (Backhouse, architect). Motto 'Strive to Serve'.