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Government House

official residence of the Governor of New South Wales
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Summary

Government House is a house[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (567 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New South Wales[3]
  • Country: Australia[4]
  • Instance of: official residence[5]
  • Architect: Mortimer Lewis[6]
  • Owned by: monarchy of Australia[7]
  • Location: Sydney[8]
  • Has use: official residence[9]
  • Commons category: Government House, Sydney[10]
  • Inception: 1847[11]
  • Heritage designation: Heritage Act — State Heritage Register[12], Heritage Act - s.170 NSW State agency heritage register[13], Local Environmental Plan[14], listed on the Register of the National Estate[15]
  • Street address: Macquarie Street, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW 2000[16]

Why It Matters

Government House has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Australia Sydney

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . New South Wales State Heritage Register. environment.nsw.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . environment.nsw.gov.au. environment.nsw.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . environment.gov.au. environment.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . environment.nsw.gov.au. environment.nsw.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Flummont · 2026-10-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'commons', 'en', 'fr', 'ha', 'id', 'it', 'ms', 'sv', 'ur', 'zh']
    Instance of → house, official residence
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: official residence"
  2. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40010|batch #40010]]"
  3. 16w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Australia
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → New South Wales
    Coordinates → —
    Has use → official residence
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Continent: Oceania"
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