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Warrawee is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Warrawee is located 21 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.〔Gregory's Sydney Street Directory, Gregory's Publishing Company, 2007, Map 222〕 Warrawee is predominantly a residential area with few commercial entities. This should not be confused with Wirawee, the fictional small country town in the Tomorrow series of books for young people by John Marsden and the film derived from the first book, ''Tomorrow when the war began''. ==History== Warrawee is believed to have come from an Aboriginal word meaning ''rest a while'', ''stop here'' or ''to stand''.〔''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8〕 In 1888, the public servant and patron of exploration Frederick Ecclestone du Faur built his house ''Pibrac'' in Pibrac Avenue. The house was designed by John Horbury Hunt, a Canadian architect who settled in Australia and favoured the Arts and Crafts style, as well as the North American Shingle style, which he introduced to Australia. Later alterations were carried out by B.J. Waterhouse. The house is composed predominantly of timber, with extensive use of timber shingles, on a sandstone base. It is considered a good example of Hunt's work and is listed on the Register of the National Estate.〔The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p.2/33〕 As all North Shore suburbs with aboriginal names, Warrawee was the name of a railway station which became attached to the surrounding suburb. Warrawee had developed in the 1900s as an exclusive residential district with no shops, offices, post office, public school, churches or through roads.〔Paul Davis, November 2010, ''Kuring-Gai Potential Heritage Conservation Areas North Review'' ("HCA 23 – Warrawee" ) retrieved 16 April 2012.〕〔(Knox Grammar ) was founded at Earlston, a Warrawee property across the railway line, in 1923, senior school 1924.〕 All the blocks were kept to between one and four acres and the form of houses tightly controlled.〔〔 See especially p. 27.〕 Joseph Beresford Grant used his money to guarantee the exclusiveness of the development.〔 The architect William Hardy Wilson built his home, ''Purulia'', in Fox Valley Road in 1913. The house was relatively unusual at the time, but became a significant influence over the years. It is heritage-listed.〔The Heritage of Australia, p.2/33〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warrawee, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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