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Blackwattle Studios
South side of the Long Building Shopfront in the Long Building Photograph by Marianne Porteners Inside the Long Building, photographer unknown
Marlene Sarrof's studio Long Building Long Building Photograph by Marianne Portener Corrugated iron wall
Upstairs in the Long Building Top path

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The Blackwattle studios were located at 461-465 Glebe Point Road, overlooking Rozelle and Blackwattle Bay. The buildings dated from the late 1920s and were originally used as timber-drying warehouses and boatbuilding yards. They were described in a Leichhardt Council Heritage Assessment as rare examples of their type and historical reminders of the importance of the timber industry to Glebe's past. These buildings have been demolished to make way for residential apartments.

The main buildings, a large warehouse (the Long Building) and a boatshed, housed 110 studios and employed over 250 people. The tenants were mainly artists, artisans and craftspeople, including painters, boatbuilders, furniture makers, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, film makers, computer graphics designers, architects, weavers, picture framers and art restorers.