The first Government House

Jane Kelso

doi:10.5130/sj.v5i1.5729

Captain Arthur Phillip, 1786, painted by Francis Wheatley Courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (ML 124)

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Published: Sep 1, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/sj.v5i1.5729

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Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales, First Government House, Museum of Sydney, Sydney Living Museums

Jane Kelso

Sydney Living Museums

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The first Government House was not a simple singular structure but a complex with a yard, outbuildings, guardhouse, garden and great domain. It was a home, and office and a venue for public and private entertaining, but also a symbol of British authority, with all that that meant to different people, both then and now. A place of intimacy and officaldom, birth and death, celebration, confrontation and reconciliation, the first Government House was the scene of significant moments in the young colony's history.

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Vol 5 No 1 (2017): The first governor – A bicentenary symposium on Arthur Phillip

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