Frank Fox was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, and was apprenticed to architectural firms in Melbourne and Sydney. He also studied through the International Correspondence School (ICS), then moved to London in 1939 for further study. After the Second World War, in 1946, he set up his own practice in Sydney, Frank Fox and Associates, specialising in shop and hospitality fitouts. Some of his early projects included Oxford Square, Central Square, the Crest Hotel and the Granville RSL Club. He also worked in Queensland, Victoria. In the late 1960s, he began to develop Old Sydney Town, a tourist attraction on rural land near Gosford, which recreated Sydney Cove during its early years of settlement as a British colony. The Town opened in 1975 and was sold to the NSW Government and Bank of New South Wales before Fox retired in 1976.
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Obituary: 'The architect founder of Old Sydney Town’, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May 1981.
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