Alexandra Street & Ferdinand Street
From 1868 services had been conducted (in the Council Chambers or at 20 Ferry Street) by Wesleyan ministers of the [...]
1 Ferdinand Street
In 1886 the Congregational Church (Alexandra Street) decided to erect a manse. The tender of £1,025 from Polton and Son [...]
2 Ferdinand Street
In 1886, while living around the corner in one of Mrs Schmidt’s new terrace houses (12-14 Alexandra Street), Jean Baptiste [...]
5 Ferdinand Street
Until 1890 this land belonged to Judge Manning of Alexandra Street; the deed mentions buildings on land larger than the [...]
11 Ferdinand Street
This brick cottage was first listed as Penventon in 1894, with W.G.H. Adams living here. In 1896 J.A. Blaxland was [...]
12 Ferdinand Street
This was the first stone house built by Jules Joubert on land owned by his brother Didier. He sold it [...]
15 Ferdinand Street
Melchior Viel (Vial) D’Aram, another Frenchman investing in The French village, owned six acres of bushland here until around 1875. [...]
17 Ferdinand Street
This land was owned in 1875 by D’Aram, in 1878 by Henry Brookes, in 1884 by J.B. McKenzie. In 1888 [...]
18 Ferdinand Street
This was part of the Brookes estate (see Maruna, 12 Ferdinand Street) which ran from the Lane Cove River to [...]
