George Allen Mansfield

George Allen Mansfield (15 June 1834 – 20 January 1908) was a prominent Australian architect of the nineteenth century who designed many iconic buildings in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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 Frederick 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 served as an Inner Glebe Ward Councillor (Alderman from 1867) for the Borough of The Glebe from 1866 to 1878.

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 was the first Australian-born architect to receive the honour of Fellowship. Mansfield was also the founder and first president of the NSW Institute of Architects (now the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects).

He died in 1908, and was buried at Waverley Cemetery. He is remembered in the name of Mansfield Street, Glebe.

Works His many prominent colonial buildings including and ten listed on the NSW State Heritage Register,

Schools

Castle Hill Public School, Sydney Cleveland Street Public School The Old School, Darlington Pyrmont Public School Rosebank College Sussex Street Primary School, Sydney Australian Mutual Provident Society head office in Pitt Street, Sydney (1878; demolished 1909). Much of commercial building stock of O’Connell Street The Darling Harbour facilities of AGL Energy (now Demolished) History House, Macquarie Street offices for the Royal Australian Historical Society Macleay Museum (University of Sydney)

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