Background
Hennessy was born on 8 January 1887 at Burwood, Sydney.
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After completing his secondary education at the Christian Brothers’ High School at Lewisham, and Street Patrick"s College, Goulburn, he studied architecture at Sydney Technical College and at the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
The partnership existed from 1912 to 1923. Hennessy predominantly worked in New South Wales and Queensland. Two of his commercial buildings still stand in Sydney.
His work is also a central feature of three Australian university campuses.
Hennessy was the architect for the Holy Name Cathedral in Brisbane, a project of Archbishop Duhig that was never built due to lack of funding. In 1950, Hennessy was awarded over £25,000 by the court when he sued to recover his unpaid fees on the project
