Joseph Alexander Kethel

A four storey late Victorian apartment building with nine two-bedroom units it is now listed as part of the Millers Point Conservation Area.

In 1903 his eclectic architectural detailing of the face brick retail and residential buildings in Park Street Sydney look back stylistically to Stevens Terrace and forward to his early houses in the Municipality of Strathfield.

In 1905 when Kethel designed the homestead at Cavan Station, south of Yass along the Murrumbidgee River in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, it was a rural outpost.

Since the 1960s it has been the principal Australian residence of media mogul Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG bringing Kethel’s architecture to a wider audience.

Rigg was founder of the Clyde Engineering Company, Mayor of Newtown Council and a Member of the Legislative Assembly and was also active in the Presbyterian Church of Australia.

The Hardy and Arnott families were wealthy and influential members of Sydney society at the time indicating that Kethel designed homes were highly sort after for many years.