MACQUARIE STREET & HOSPITAL
History :
Macquarie Street is the easternmost street of Sydney's central business district. Macquarie Street extends from Hyde Park at its southern end to the Sydney Opera House at its north.Macquarie Street, was Sydney's most popular and most fashionable street, particularly in the second half of the 19th C, when two and three-storey houses in the Italian style, with verandas and views of the Domain and the harbor, were built here.
Macquarie Street is named after Lachlan Macquarie, an early Governor of New South Wales (1810-1821), and was designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare. Macquarie initiated the construction of Sydney's first public buildings of any real permanence and set the boundaries of Sydney's grid of streets.
Location :
Macquarie Street is the location of Sydney Hospital, the Hyde Park Barracks and St. James Church, all Macquarie projects.
Today, Macquarie Street is also the location of Parliament House, the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Mint and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Part of the street is adjacent to the Royal Botanic Gardens, which is the location of Government House and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Sydney Hospital :
Location : The Sydney Hospital is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district.
History : It is the oldest hospital in Australia. It first attained the name Sydney Hospital in 1881.
Service : Currently the hospital comprises 113 inpatient beds. Specialist services attract patients from all over New South Wales. It specialises in ophthalmology and hand surgery and is a referral hospital for patients requiring these services. It does also house a rudimentary 6-bed Emergency Department. Sydney Hospital is associated with the University of New South Wales through its own association with St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney but is also associated with Sydney University through the Department of Ophthalmology.