Pitt Street (Sydney)

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B2B5 Pitt Street
coat of arms
Street in Sydney
Pitt Street
North Pitt Street
Basic data
place Sydney
District Business district
Hist. Names Pitt Row
Cross streets Bridge Street ; King Street ; Pitt Street Mall ; Park Street ; Bathurst Street ; Broadway ; Cleveland Street
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , restricted car traffic , public transport

The Pitt Street is a main street in the central business district of Sydney in New South Wales , Australia . It leads past numerous historical buildings and hotels.

Surname

It is believed that the street name goes back to William Pitt , a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , gave the Colonial Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824). Another version assumes that the streets were named after Pits Row, who was instrumental in building Sydney's first drinking water pipeline.

Course of the road

Pitt Street runs through the entire city center from Circular Quay in the north to Waterloo in the south. Today's street, however, is divided into two disjointed sections after a significant portion of it was removed to make way for Sydney Central Station . Pitt Street is known for the pedestrianized Pitt Street Mall , a 200-meter-long section of street with numerous shops that extends from Market Street to King Street.

The street is a one-way street from Goulburn Street to Pitt Street Mall in a north direction and from Circular Quay to Pitt Street Mall in a south direction. The Pitt Street Mall is traffic free.

The northern section of the street - from Railway Square to Circular Quay - is dominated by retail and commercial office space, while the southern section, from Railway Square to Redfern to Waterloo, is dominated by residential buildings with light commercial and industrial use.

Building history

The road presumably ended up near the tanks or "pits" dug in 1791 and 1792 in the historic Tank Stream, the original source of fresh water for the colony. In 1842, Pitt Street was expanded south to Waterloo with the creation of the Redfern borough . In 1853, Pitt Street was extended north from Hunter Street to Circular Quay.

Listed buildings

Pitt Street looking south across King Street, ca.1900
Pitt Street, looking south from the Powerhouse Museum, circa 1900

Along Pitt Street is home to many historic buildings under monument protection are, for example:

  • Bulletin Place Warehouses
  • Commonwealth Trading Bank
  • Kings Hotel
  • Pitt Street Uniting Church
  • Soul Pattinson Building
  • The Strand Arcade
  • Sydney School of Arts
  • Sydney Water Head Office
  • The Sydney Club
  • The Wales House

Web links

Commons : Pitt Street, Sydney  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pitt Street Heritage Walk . In: Undated Visit Sydney Australia, accessed April 17, 2020
  2. ↑ Catherine Bishop: Woman of Pitt Street 1958 . In: Dictionary of Sydney from 2011
  3. ^ History of Sydney streets (Excel format). In: City of Sydney, December 4, 2012

Coordinates: 33 ° 52 ′ 24.6 ″  S , 151 ° 12 ′ 29.1 ″  E