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George Allen Mansfield
Australian architect

George Allen Mansfield

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George Allen Mansfield was a prominent Architect of the nineteenth century who designed many iconic buildings in Sydney, Australia.

Life

Born in 1834 in Sydney, his father, the Reverend Ralph Mansfield, had been a Methodist missionary. He was educated at the privately run school of Mr. W. T. Cape and then articled with the architect John Fredrick Hilly.

He married Mary Emma Allen, third daughter of prominent politician and solicitor George Allen, and had seven children. The family lived in Tranby, Glebe, which was designed by Mansfield.

Mansfield was a lieutenant in the Glebe branch of the New South Wales Militia, a commissioner for Peace and an alderman for Glebe Council. Mansfield was also a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and the founder and first president of the Institute of Architecture NSW (now Australian Institute of Architects).

He died in 1908 and he is remembered in the name of Mansfield Street Glebe, New South Wales.

Works

His many prominent colonial buildings including and ten listed on the NSW State Heritage Register, include:

Churches

  • Pitt Street Uniting Church
  • Mudgee Uniting Church

Schools

Newcastle Public School circa 1879
  • Redfern Public School (now demolished)
Cleveland Street High School
  • Cleveland Street Public School.
  • Newcastle East Public School
  • Mudgee Public School(part)
  • The Old School, Darlington
  • Castle Hill Public School, Sydney
  • Rosebank College
  • Sussex Street Primary School, Sydney
  • Crown Street Public School
  • Pyrmont Public School

Houses

  • Toxteth Park for his inlaws
  • Carthona, Darling Point
  • 'The Warren' at Marrickville
  • Coombing Park at Carcoar for the founders of Cobb and Co

Commercial buildings

The Australia Hotel, 1932
  • Australia Hotel (now demolished for the MLC Centre)
  • several bank buildings for the Commercial Bank of Australia, now Westpac
  • AMP offices in Pitt Street, Sydney
  • Much of commercial building stock of O’Connell Street
  • The Darling Harbour facilities of AGL Energy (now Demolished)

Other

  • Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Admission Block and Victoria & Albert Pavilions (1904)
  • History House, Macquarie Street offices for the Royal Australian Historical Society
  • Macleay Museum, (University of Sydney)

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