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glimpse of the glamorous celebrity. Her expensive flower filled 2nd floor suite played host to pets including a large St
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place to stay and be seen by the upper echelons of society". The hotel remained an oasis for those who scorned modernity and sought the more refined atmosphere of the classic
European hotels. Apart from the accommodation for guests, rooms were also provided in the Rowe Street wing for their servants,
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who, amid mounting concerns, announced their intention of refurbishing and maintaining the hotel, one of the city's landmarks. However the following year they announced its impending closure and closed it on 30 June 1971. They demolished it in almost record time, to erect a modern $ 200 million,
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reported "French actress Sarah
Bernhardt arrived in Sydney, bringing with her 100 pieces of luggage. As hundreds of fans flooded onto Redfern railway platform as her train approached, she was whisked away from the platform to the Australia Hotel where hundreds more excited fans wanted to catch a
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The first floor contained a pillared corridor with various reception rooms, in addition to the Winter Garden - "famous for its morning and afternoon teas, light luncheons, and theatre suppers", and the
Moorish Lounge, leading to the huge dining room - the Emerald Room, with its highly decorated
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columns red. The squared columns in the entrance foyer were imported
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Majesty's Theatre. After the show, drama critics called her a 'woman of genius' saying she had held the audience spell bound." Next to the hotel, across Rowe Street, stood the famous
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ceiling some 6.1 metres (20 ft) above the guests, Italian chandeliers, and a dais at the west end containing a white marble operating fountain and other statues, engulfed in
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to run telegraphy tests, from the hotel's 6th floor, with ships at sea, on 27 August. It was subsequently permitted to handle commercial traffic in 1911 – the first in
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5 December 1915 a fire broke out at 11.30 am in the north-east corner of the roof and quickly spread, eventually gutting the upper three floors, but without loss of life.
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On Monday, 28 January 1901, the hotel saw the literary
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who fix their famous Green Plaques to historic buildings and sites, placed their 39th plaque on the MLC Centre in memory of the Australia Hotel.
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was staying at The Australia and giving a luncheon party when he was formally notified that he was to be knighted upon his return to Britain.
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grand staircase, with stained glass windows, led to their rooms those guests, who, in the early days of lifts, still preferred to walk.
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stayed there several times (thereafter her suite, rooms 707–708, was named after her) and one lady lived there for 31 years.
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