Butler Stairs
A set of 103 steps which connect Brougham Street, Woolloomooloo with Victoria Street, Potts Point.
stairways that connect Brougham Street, Woolloomooloo with Victoria Street, Potts Point. The stairs were named for James Butler, an Irish draper and alderman on Sydney Council who lived and worked with his family at 106 William Street and was instrumental in having them laid.
An urban canyon is created by the blank walls of the buildings on either side of the stairway. The configuration of the stairway lead one writer to the newspaper letters page in 2011 to note that whilst it was ‘glorious’, to walk Butler Stairs, it also caused them ‘to experience a measure of anticipated menace and unease’
Butler Stairs, Potts Point NSW 2011, Australia
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