Carthona – 85 Todman Avenue – Kensington/Randwick – New South Wales

 

"Carthona" – 85 Todman Avenue - Kensington - New South Wales

Before you Google “Carthona Sydney,” pause. The famous Gothic pile on the harbour is Carthona at Darling Point Sir Thomas Mitchell’s sandstone mansion. This post is the other one: a single-storey Federation Queen Anne cottage at 85 Todman Avenue, Kensington, State Heritage Register #00555.

Randwick’s plaque and the council story card say the house was erected about 1910 by Richard H. Gallagher, a tradesman plasterer. (Heritage NSW’s historical note says “Frank Gallagher” same family sale trail; prefer the plaque’s Richard H. and flag the variance.) Brick on a sandstone base, slate roof with terracotta ridge, leadlight and etched star-pattern glass, ornamental plaster ceilings with Australian flora and fauna motifs — the sort of interior that only survives when one family never “improves” it to death.

That family kept Carthona from the build until a 1986 sale, still almost original. The National Trust waved a flag; an Interim Conservation Order landed in February 1986, a Permanent Conservation Order in February 1988, and transfer to the State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Later rear works (1986, 2009) touched kitchens and verandahs — the street face and principal rooms are why it is listed.

Administration Building - 50 Todman Avenue - Randwick - New South Wales

 Administration Building - 50 Todman Avenue - Kensington - New South Wales 

Bought in 1912 From George by the British and Australian tobacco companies reputation in please Welfare. Administration building a wrecked a 1926 to design and killing
The land on which the administration building stands was originally part of a government grant to Samuel Samuel Terry in 1823 which passed through Daniel Cooper and William Cooper to the Australian cities investment Corporation in 1891.
In 1909 George Tottenham mind some of the land of the Corporation went to the potential. Australia in 1912. Elan was transferred to WD and HO wheels in 1920

The building known as the branch ministration building of WD and HO wills was constructive in 1926 additional wing being added in 1949. The new

The wheels factory came to centre of community life and the social club organised outings concerts and special occasions and parties. Also incorporated into the Rayleigh park with no one bowling greens, a cricket ground, club houses, soccer and walking fields, basketball netball courts and various other facilities to serve employees and the needs of the surrounding schools and athletic clubs.
In 1989 to 1949 addition of the building was demolished and worked again polishing all over buildings to make way for residential development