This beautiful building was built in 1888 it is the oldest Polo Club in Australia. The building was built initially in 1864, extended in the late 1870s, but substantially rebuilt in 1889 for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company.
It served for almost a century as a shipping office. In 1988 major external and internal
alternations were carried out in converting the building into premises
for a club. In 1914, MacDonald Hamilton & Co became agents for AUSN and
instigated internal renovations (c. 1915-20), including silky oak
panelling on the first floor. They were also responsible for the change
of the name to Naldham House which was the firm's telex address, derived
from a subset of their name MacDonald Hamilton. The building is on the Heritage Register.
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