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, now Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart, Sydney, and Tivoli, now part of Kambala Girls School, which are both at Rose Bay. In Armidale, New South Wales, he designed St Peter's Anglican Cathedral and Booloominbah and Trevenna which are now both part of the University of New England.
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.
Hunt is interred in South Head General Cemetery, in Sydney. Although several kilometres away it forms part of the Waverley Cemetery extended grounds.
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