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Tempe is a city town in the area of the eastern suburbs that was named after the mansion (Tempe house) in Wolli Creek on the banks of the Cooks River and is known as one of the many great houses of Sydney. Tempe House was built in 1836 by a Scotland immigrant from Elgin named Alexander Brodie Spark (1792-1856). He named the house after the Vale of Tempe,which in Mount Olympus, Greece, was a lovely valley. This historical site was created and designed in a Georgian style by John Verge (1772-1861) with some modern touches to it. The House of Tempe holds such importance of history and still to this day intact with unblemished 1830s villa and enclosed with its greatly unchanged landscape setting. Verge’s design has created a picture perfect, eye catching and picturesque look.

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