| Boomerang | |
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 Boomerang as seen from Beare Park | |
| Location | 42 Billyard Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Coordinates | 33°52′13″S 151°13′42″E / 33.8702°S 151.2282°E |
| Built | 1926–1928 |
| Built for | Frank Albert |
| Architect |
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| Architectural style(s) | Spanish Mission |
| Official name | Boomerang |
| Type | State heritage (complex / group) |
| Designated | 2 April 1999 |
| Reference no. | 38 |
| Type | Garden Residential |
| Category | Parks, Gardens and Trees |
  Location of Boomerang in Sydney | |
Boomerang is a heritage-listed private house and garden located at 42 Billyard Avenue in the inner eastern Sydney suburb of Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia. The house was designed by Neville Hampson and the gardens and grounds by Max Shelley (and possibly Hampson and A. J. Doust), and built from 1926 to 1928.
The first owner was Frank Albert, a music publisher, who resided at Boomerang until his death in 1962. The house remained closed with a caretaker until 1978. From 1978-96 a range of owners bought and subdivided it, creating lots to the east on Ithaca Gardens, and part was acquired by Sydney City Council to extend Beare Park to avert an unsympathetic proposed block of flats to its north-east.[1]
Boomerang was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[1] The house has been ranked as one of the most expensive houses in Sydney.[2]
The house was used as a set for the film Mission: Impossible 2. In 2011 the garden was redesigned by Myles Baldwin.[3]
- ^ a b "Boomerang". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H00038. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.
- ^ "A city and its multi-million dollar digs". Sydney Morning Herald website. Fairfax Digital. 27 April 2002. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
- ^ Macquarie Visions Ambassadors Archived 26 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
