Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney

The Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Australia, is a brick building, which was designed by the convict architect Francis Greenway and built and 1818-1819. The building in Macquarie Street in downtown Sydney, which is incorporated as Australian Convict Sites, and in the Australian National Heritage List in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage was intended for accommodation of male convicts. Today it is operated as a museum by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales.

The building is located in close proximity to the historic Sydney Mint and Hyde Park Sydney.

History

Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of brick, were housed in the convicts to the year 1838, who had to work for the colonial government of New South Wales. Macquarie important in this construction of the previously practiced British colonial policy of creating convict camps from where strict discipline and religious education was practiced and liberalized it so. From 1848 to 1886 it was used for young immigrants who were looking for work and waited for their families. Courts and government offices from 1887 to 1979 were housed there.

Interior bedroom

Detail of hammocks