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George Allen Mansfield was a prominent Architect of the nineteenth century who designed many iconic buildings in Sydney, Australia.
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Life
Born in 1834 in Sydney, his father, the Reverend Ralph Mansfield, had been a Methodist missionary. He was educated at the privately run school of Mr. W. T. Cape and then articled with the architect John Fredrick Hilly.
He married Mary Emma Allen, third daughter of prominent politician and solicitor George Allen, and had seven children. The family lived in Tranby, Glebe, which was designed by Mansfield. They then lived at Oakwood in Bridge Road From 1864 to 1869, and Lynedoch in Glebe Road from 1870 to 1879.
Mansfield was a lieutenant in the Glebe branch of the New South Wales Militia, a commissioner for Peace and an alderman for Glebe Council. Mansfield was also a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and the founder and first president of the Institute of Architecture NSW (now Australian Institute of Architects).
He died in 1908 and he is remembered in the name of Mansfield Street Glebe, New South Wales.
Works
His many prominent colonial buildings including and ten listed on the NSW State Heritage Register, include: