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Manchester Unity Building This page is a list of all historically significant Art Deco and Moderne buildings in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Office buildings Alkira House, 18 Queen Street, Melbourne Australasian Catholic Assurance Building, 118-126 Queen Street, Melbourne Australian Natives' Association Building, 28-32 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Buckley & Nunn, 310 Bourke Street ...
During the Marvellous Melbourne era, Bourke Street was the location of many of the city's theatres and cinemas. Today it continues as a major retail shopping precinct with the Bourke Street Mall running between Elizabeth and Swanston Streets, numerous offices to the west end and restaurants to the east. [1]
In order to provide power for a new system of electric street lights, the City of Melbourne built a coal fired power station on the corner of Spencer Street and Little Bourke Street, opening in 1894. [157] It was expanded and machinery upgraded many times, adding and altering buildings in 1907–8, and in the 1920s.
One of the oldest laneways in Melbourne, Tattersalls Lane is located between Swanston and Russell streets, with the lane connecting Lonsdale Street to Little Bourke Street. The lane was named pre-1856 after the Tattersalls Hotel and Tattersalls Club located nearby. The lane is notable for its a mix of eateries, bars and ever-changing street art.
Printmaker/painter Helen Ogilvie (1902–1993) was a generous mentor of emerging artists, [6] and in 1949 Stanley Coe appointed her as one of Australia's first women gallery directors to create a commercial exhibition space on the upper floor of his interior design shop at 435 Bourke Street, Melbourne, [7] [8] decorated with pale grey-blue ...
Flinders Street station Hawthorn station The former Port Melbourne station, now a shop adjacent to a light rail stop. In cases where the heritage listing does not cover the entire station complex, the elements subject to the heritage listing are given.
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It occupied a large site on Bourke Street in central Melbourne, formerly occupied by the grand Eastern Market, and was the premier hotel in the city into the early 1980s. The Southern Cross was the preferred hotel for celebrities in this period, most famously The Beatles in 1964, and the ballroom was the preferred location for locally and ...