Foundation Park

Year

1878

Type

landscape

Foundation Park is a small outdoor room tucked into a sandstone cliff behind Playfair Street, built from the stone footings of eight tiny terrace houses that once climbed the rock face here. The cottages, at former numbers 2 to 16…

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Timeline

1993-1996
Installation
The cleared site was landscaped as an archaeological park, with the exposed house foundations and Peter Cole's oversized steel furniture interpreting the lost cottages.

Nearby

Argyle Stores
30 m · 1826
Reynolds' Cottages
70 m · 1830
Gannon House
80 m · 1840
Argyle Cut
80 m · 1859
Playfair Street Terraces
90 m · 1875
Argyle Terrace
90 m · 1884
The Rocks Discovery Museum
100 m · 1854
Cadmans Cottage
130 m · 1816

Foundation Park

Timeline

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Built in the 1870s

Nearby

Argyle Stores

Reynolds' Cottages

Gannon House

Argyle Cut

Playfair Street Terraces

Argyle Terrace

The Rocks Discovery Museum

Cadmans Cottage

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