Hotel Palisade

The Sydney Harbour Trust built four hotels in 1915-16 to replace the pubs torn down after the 1900 bubonic plague — Hotel Palisade is the survivor. Five storeys of Federation Free Style, designed by Sydney Harbour Trust engineer H. D. Walsh, on a tall narrow Millers Point block that gives terminal views along several streets. It sat boarded up for seven years from 2008. Richard Sapsford bought the renovated building in 2015 for $17.7 million and reopened it: Public House on the ground floor (pokies removed, original green tiles kept), eight rooms upstairs named after Millers Point figures, with seafaring murals hand-painted by Neil Mallard, and Henry Deane on the roof.