Henry Halloran c. 1924

Henry Ferdinand Halloran (9 August 1869 – 22 October 1953) was a major property owner and developer in New South Wales in the early part of the twentieth century.

Halloran was born in Sydney; his father was a bank clerk and architect named Edward Roland Halloran and his mother was Adeline Burgess, née Reuss. His grandfather was also called Henry Halloran and his great-grandfather was Laurence Hynes Halloran, who arrived in Australia, as a convict transported to Sydney.[1]

Halloran attended Sydney Boys High School and Newington College.[1][2] He qualified as a surveyor in 1890 and became a conveyancer and valuer. After establishing Henry F. Halloran & Co. in 1897, Halloran became a significant figure in property development and urban planning in New South Wales from the 1880s through to the 1950s.[1] His developments included Seaforth and Warriewood in Sydney in 1906, and—the unsuccessful—Environa near Canberra in 1930.[3] There were other Halloran subdivisions at Stanwell Park,[4] near Orient Point,[5] and at Currarong.[6]

He also built structures at Tanilba Bay in 1931.[7] He attempted to create a place called Pacific City near Jervis Bay.[8] The site of Pacific City was to have been west of Hyams Beach and would have extended west to the St Georges Basin shoreline.[9] He also attempted to create a place called Port Stephens City at present day North Arm Cove,[10] but only a small village eventuated, despite a significant area of land outside the present-day village being subdivided and sold.[11]

Halloran began the revival of the ghost town of South Huskisson, on the western shore of Jervis Bay. He renamed the deserted "Old Township", Vincentia, in 1952.[12][13] He did not live to see it reborn, as a holiday destination, following land sales for holiday homes (also known as "weekenders"), which occurred in the 1950s[14] and 1960s.[15]

Halloran died on 22 October 1953 at the age of 84.[1]

Legacy

Port Stephens City advertisement poster

The University of Sydney, established the Henry Halloran Trust, aimed at promoting scholarship, innovation and research in town planning, urban development and land management.[16][17] Several collections of Halloran's papers, including maps and survey notes detailing land and property subdivision throughout New South Wales, are held at the State Library of New South Wales.[18]

Also part of his legacy are significant portions of undeveloped marginal land, now owned by his heirs or the Halloran Trust, that from time to time are proposed for development.[19][20][21]

Another legacy is a subdivision, planned by Walter Burley Griffin in 1918, at North Arm Cove, which Halloran sold after subdivision. Much of the subdivision is currently zoned non-urban with a prohibition of erecting permanent dwellings - "paper subdivision".[11] North Arm Cove is subject to renewed efforts of the community of land owners towards sustainable development through the North Arm Cove Initiative.[22][23][24]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Atchison, John (1983). "Halloran, Henry Ferdinand (1869 - 1953)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
  2. ↑ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 81
  3. ↑ Allan J. Mortlock; Bernice Anderson (1978). Undiscovered Canberra. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 42–47. ISBN 0-7081-1579-9.
  4. ↑ "Topical Taps". St George Call. 1908-02-01. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  5. ↑ "Advertising". Daily Telegraph. 1929-01-19. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  6. ↑ "History". Currarong Community Association. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  7. ↑ Tim the Yowie Man (8 June 2019). "Mailbag". Canberra Times. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  8. ↑ Jennifer Horsfield (2005). "Environa: Marketing a Life-Style Near Canberra 80 Years Ago" (PDF).
  9. ↑ "Part of Pacific City and Jervis Bay, St. George's Basin [cartographic material] : for private sale". Trove. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  10. ↑ Henry F Halloran (1920). "1st subdivision, Port Stephens city estate".
  11. 1 2 "Some early history of the Cove". North Arm Cove.
  12. ↑ "Shoalhaven Family Local and Cultural History Fair NSW". Retrieved 2014-08-16.
  13. ↑ "Nowra council May Reject Road Finance Offer". South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954). 1952-09-15. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  14. ↑ "Advertising". Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910–1954). 1954-01-06. p. 13. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  15. ↑ Vincentia Jervis Bay : formerly known as the Deas-Thomson Estate or South Huskisson, Sydney : Realty Realizations Ltd, 1963, retrieved 2019-02-27
  16. ↑ "Henry Halloran Trust". University of Sydney. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  17. ↑ Crawford, Robert (2020-01-29). "Generous Shoalhaven benefactor dies". South Coast Register. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  18. ↑ "Henry F. Halloran survey roughs, New South Wales, 1880-1925 M ser 4 810/16/Halloran Survey Roughs". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  19. ↑ Honey, Ian (2021-05-14). "Culburra Beach Speaks Up Against Halloran Trust Housing Development". New Bush Telegraph. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  20. ↑ "Housing supply may be at 'crisis point', but not everyone at seaside Culburra village wants this new development". ABC News. 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  21. ↑ "Firm's role in city's development". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 1974-03-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  22. ↑ https://www.desim-arch.com/north-arm-cove-initiative
  23. ↑ Power, Julie (17 February 2023). "A block of land called Hope: The fight to revive Walter Burley Griffin's lost city". Sydney Morning Herald.
  24. ↑ Simovic, et all (12 March 2023). "Back To the Future – North Arm Cove Initiative". DESIM.
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