Wyoming is a heritage-listed residence at 25 Wharf Road, Birchgrove, Inner West Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 and the former Register of the National Estate on 28 May 1996. History Wyoming was built by Quarton L. Deloitte in 1881, around an earlier stone cottage, "The Hermitage", which had been home in the 1870s to shipwright James Yeend. Yeend ran his yard below, and its wharf was almost certainly the original of Wharf Road. Wyoming was designed by Mansfield Bros., a pre-eminent Victorian firm who designed many public buildings, including Balmain Primary School and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Deloitte was son of a sea captain who had grown up in nearby Birch Grove House. He was secretary of the Colonial Sugar Refinery (CSR) for 50 years. Deloitte was a prominent citizen of Balmain, patron of Sydney Rowing Club for decades and often referred to as the father of rowing. His family was associated with Birchgrove (and Wharf Road in particular) for nearly 100 years. Deloitte was a keen gardener, terracing the steep site and laying out lawns, trees, shrubs and a glass house. In Deloitte's absence in 1884 Wyoming was tenanted by legendary Russian scientist, explorer and humanist, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) with his wife Margaret, daughter of five-times Premier of New South Wales Sir John Robertson. Although little-known in Australia, Miklouho-Maclay is revered as a folk hero in Russia and the Ukraine. The property became the focus of international attention for its association with Miklouho-Maclay, who established the biological research station at Watsons Bay (entered in the Register of the National Estate) and was responsible for anthropological and exploration activity in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. When Deloitte died in 1927, Wyoming was quickly absorbed by the adjacent maritime industry of Nicholson Bros. & later Stannards Bros. Set below the street it was soon forgotten and neglected. In 1989 it was threatened with demolition as part of redundant Balmain maritime industry; its owners wanted to replace it with 10 town houses and others in front of Nos. 21 & 23. Leichhardt Council's meeting considering the application was addressed by Soviet Consul General, Ivan Shchbakov. The meeting was filmed and shown on television in the Soviet Union and reported in Pravda. A usually then-divided Leichhardt Municipal Council passed a unanimous motion to reject the application and