Leadlight of Inner Western Sydney

Ewart Street was shown as Terrace Road in the 1884 subdivision of the Moffat Estate Marrickville when lots on the southern side were offered for sale. At this time the land in the area consisted of market gardens and dairy farms Land on the northern side of Terrace Road was owned by the Rev C.F. Macarthur, Berry’s Market Garden and the Starkey Terrace Garden. (Starkey was probably W.A. Starkey who owned Gladstone Hall in the Hurlstone Park end of Terrace Road). The lots in this estate were huge with frontages of 30 metres and  depth of 100 metres. These lots were subsequently subdivided sometime after 1900. Most of the development appears to have occurred from about 1910 through to the interwar years.