# George Mcrae

george mcrae (10 September 1858 – 16 June 1923) was a Scottish architect who migrated to Australia and pursued his career in Sydney, where he became Government Architect of New South Wales and designed some of Sydney's best-known buildings, including completion of the Sydney Town Hall, the Queen Victoria Building, and the lower entrance to Taronga Zoo. == Life == george mcrae was born in Edinburgh in 1858. The register of his birth records his father as Duncan (joiner journeyman) and his mother as Mary.