Pyrmont (Extant) 52 Barkly Street

1855 the vacant block was owned by A Gill.

1868 built for leather merchant Michaelis Hallenstein, of the company of Michaelis Hallenstein, with his brother his brother Isaac, and uncle Moritz Michaelis, who lived at Linden in Acland Street in the same period.

It is thought that the owner of the property next door, Chelmsford, was his mother-in-law, and that the two properties were designed to complement each other. That house also still exists behind an interwar birck front. 

1875 Phillip Hayman, a wholesale jeweller, was the new occupant. In 1877 he commissioned the fence and gates, with the new name of the house - Pyrmont - in raised lettering, and died the next year.

By 1880, John Tanner had bought the property and leased it to Flora Timms, who lived there until 1886. Subsequent owners included George McGillvray who lived there in 1890, and James Pearson of Toorak who leased the house to the music salesman George Clark Allan in 1900. 

In 1915 flats and single rooms at Pyrmont began to be advertised.

A photo taken in 1966 identifies it as a boarding house, later becoming a rooming house. It was aquired in 2005 by Housing First, and redeveloped into 35 self contained apartments.