Editing Potts Point (section)

===20th century===
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[[File:Potts Point 03.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Tusculum Street, Art Deco and Spanish Mission style flats]]
[[File:(1)Wayside Chapel-2.jpg|right|thumb|Wayside Chapel, Hughes Street]]
Potts Point was the site of some of Australia's earliest blocks of flats, and from the 1920s through to [[World War II]] the area was intensively developed along those lines. As a result, it boasts the highest concentration of [[Art Deco]] architecture in Australia. Amongst the most notable examples are the Macleay Regis, Cahors and Franconia residential buildings in Macleay Street, and Carinthia and Carisbrooke in Springfield Avenue.

Two notable [[Streamline Moderne]] buildings in Australia: the Minerva (or Metro) Theatre and the Minerva Building are in Orwell Street. The Metro Theatre (as it was then known) was designed by [[Bruce Dellit]] and built in 1940. It was the site of the first Australian production of the musical ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' in 1970, and is heritage-listed.<ref name="Australia pp. 2, 83"/>

During the [[Vietnam War]], the Darlinghurst Road precinct (commonly known as [[Kings Cross, New South Wales|Kings Cross]]), which straddles Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay, became a popular destination for US military personnel on R&R, due chiefly to its proximity to a major naval facility. Partially as a result of this, the area attracted organised crime syndicates and developed an unsavoury reputation as Australia's drugs and prostitution capital. Dozens of hotels constructed at the time ensured that "The Cross" remained a tourism mecca well into the 1990s.

In 1964, the Rev. [[Ted Noffs]] started the [[Wayside Chapel]], an unorthodox [[Methodism|Methodist]] ministry to the Kings Cross area. It began as a small drop-in centre in a block of flats at 29 Hughes Street, and grew into a complex that occupies two blocks of flats. It is a major welfare and community centre in the area.