Cabarita Park

This guide to Cabarita Park in Sydney traces the timber frame in front of you back to January 1, 1901, when it stood in Centennial Park as an ornate pavilion, dome and all, for the swearing-in of Australia's first Governor-General before sixty thousand people. It covers the fibrous plaster and stone lions that were never built to last, and how the council of Concord paid sixty pounds for what remained. Notice the reliefs of every state still carved into the stripped wooden frame.