The Historian · Ava · Sydney
Cadmans Cottage
The harbour used to reach this door. Everything seaward of it is reclaimed land — the shoreline of 1816 stops right here.
The city's oldest surviving residential building (1816), built for the government coxswain when the water lapped its doorstep.
— Ava, The Historian
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