CallanPark.com
Title
CALLAN PARK NEEDS STILL MORE FRIENDS in 2005
Description
The Rozelle Hospital site in Sydney's inner west is 61 hectares of exceptionally beautiful, undulating waterfront parkland, preserved by historical accident, but still under threat despite the Callan Park Act being put in place late 2002.
Its legal owner, the NSW Department of Health, is continuing a long process of closing or shifting the hospital's services, with a planned close date of 2005. In the meantime many of the buildings and the heritage gardens are undergoing demolition by neglect. Hence the need for a Callan Park Trust.
The site incorporates many layers of archaeological, Aboriginal, historical, cultural, aesthetic, and environmental heritage. It contains many heritage buildings, including the original houses (1839 and 1842) of the two estates on which it is based; and the magnificent Kirkbride Block, completed in 1885 for the Callan Park psychiatric hospital (now the campus of Sydney College of the Arts).
Contact
- The Friends of Callan Park Inc.
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- Leichhardt NSW
- Australia 2040
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