John Horbury Hunt

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John Horbury Hunt (1838-1904) was a Canadian born, Boston-trained architect who worked in Sydney, Australia and rural New South Wales from 1863. Hunt designed and built cathedrals, churches, chapels, houses, homesteads, stables and schools. His works include include the Convent of the Sacred Heart and Tivoli, both at Rose Bay, St Peter's Cathedral, Booloominbah and Trevenna, all at Armidale.

Hunt's distinctive radical architecture was considered to be twenty years in advance of his peers, some of it unequalled in the world at that time, and sowed the seeds of modern architecture in Australia.

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• Historic Houses Trust of NSW - John Horbury Hunt - Radical Architect