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for the construction of the extension to the Bank in the late 1970s.

Figure 54 – View of the houses located at 219-215 Macquarie Street Sydney, which were demolished for the construction of the Reserve Bank in 1959.
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia Archives

11.3.6        Phillip Street Properties, 1840 - 1959
The Phillip Street land formed part of the original allotments 26, 27, 28 & 29 of the Sydney Subdivision.  Lot No. 26 was granted to James Wild on 29th February 1840 and purchased by the United Presbyterian Church in 1856.  The same year a church building was erected on the site.  This Byzantine structure had additions made to its façade 1866 and in 1875, following the combining of the Phillip Street Congregation with the Iron Church Congregation (St Stephens) in Macquarie Street, the church was renamed St Stephens.  The church remained on the site until it was demolished for the extension to Martin Place in 1935.  The congregation was allowed £114,000 as compensation and a new church was constructed on the site of Burdekin House in Macquarie Street.

Lot No. 27 was granted to John Kellick on 30th January 1840.  Numbered 146 and from 1880, 164 Phillip Street,  the site by 1858 contained a two storey above basement Georgian style town house development with a classical colonnade raised on a blind arcaded base.  The building had a simple hipped roof extending forward to form the verandah and symmetrically placed chimneys. Plans suggest the building was divided into multiple occupancies, but remained substantially intact until 1959 when it was demolished for the construction of the Reserve Bank.  The site had a large yard at the rear used initially as stables (see Figure 5) and later as a yard for Starkey's Cordial factory and workshop area for Hughes Motor Services. (See Figure 6)

Lot 28 was granted to James Breckenrigg Jnr in May 1840.  In the 1858 edition of the Sands Sydney and Suburban Directory the site housed the White Horse Inn but by the beginning of the 1860s two small cottages were located on the site. (See Figure 4)  John Starkey purchased both cottages and by 1880 had built on the site his aerated water and cordial brewery.  William Starkey  had already established the Starkey name in Sydney in the 1850s being the largest Ginger Beer manufacturer in the southern Hemisphere and in the 1860's John Starkey was running his cordial factory from a site, a few doors further south in Phillip Street.  The 1880s factory was a purpose- built factory containing all the latest technology and John Starkey is said to have built a "mammoth" business in Australia[61].  Starkey's Limited remained on the site until 1914.  (See Figures 7