Corana and Hygeia Mansions

Corana and Hygeia are two semi-detached mansions in the late Victorian style, now known as "The Lurline". They are a late Victorian two-storey pair of houses with good cast iron work on the verandah valences and columns. It has heavily decorated balustraded roof parapets, classically derived tiled verandah floors and front fences of cast iron and masonry. The site of the building is part of an original Crown Grant purchased in 1853 by Judge Callaghan, Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Sydney. Judge Callaghan built and occupied 'Avoca' which stood opposite Nugal Hall at 16-18 Milford Street Randwick. He died in 1863. His widow, Elizabeth and his daughter Mary Milford Auber Jones, built the two large attached houses at 211-215 Avoca Street, Randwick apparently for rental. According to Randwick Municipal Rate Books the two houses were under construction in 1893 and were completed in 1894. (State Heritage Inventory)