Recognition long overdue
Today's blog is about the other Government Architect who calls Rookwood "home". If you are in the Sydney CBD you wander past buildings he has designed or added to frequently This man is soon to have his name shining deservedly once more. GEORGE McRAE George was born in Edinburgh in September 1857 the eldest child of Duncan, a joiner journeyman and his wife Mary. (For clarification a joiner journeyman is a fully qualified worker who had completed an apprenticeship but worked on a daily rate for another person as opposed to a "master" who employed others). McRae attended George Watson's College, one where children from less advantaged backgrounds could receive quality education. Once he graduated he joined George Beattie and Sons, Architects, Edinburgh where he learnt on the job about the finer aspects of building design. George McRae cicca. 1890 - courtesy of Wikipedia George arrived in Sydney in 1884, (with his parents and siblings), as a highly skilled ma...