Colonel Walter Liberty Vernon was an English architect who migrated to Australia and pursued his career as an architect in Sydney, New South Wales. In his role as the New South Wales Government Architect he is noted for designing multiple government buildings, many of which are extant with listings on national and state heritage registers.
Walter Liberty Vernon
Pyrmont Fire Station
Randwick Fire Station
Darlinghurst Fire Station
New South Wales Government Architect
The New South Wales Government Architect, an appointed officer of the Government of New South Wales, serves as the General Manager of the Government Architect's Office (GAO), a multi-disciplinary consultancy operating on commercial principles providing architecture, design, and engineering services, that is an agency of the government within NSW Public Works.
St. James Church, Sydney in the 1880s, designed by the first Colonial Architect in the 1820s)
Architectural drawing of the Garden Palace, designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet in the 1870s
Hyde Park Barracks, designed by Francis Greenway; Old Colonial Georgian style; drawing by William Hardy Wilson in 1914
The first Macquarie Lighthouse, built 1816–18; photograph taken in the 1870s; from the 'Papers of James Barnet'