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The painting is oil on canvas measuring a life size 260 x 139 cm. It was purchased for 850 guineas by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald of Lonsdale Street in Melbourne. After being hung in the National Gallery of Victoria for three weeks in 1883, it was withdrawn from exhibition because of the uproar created especially by the Presbyterian Assembly.
Flinders Wharf (previously known as Flinders Wharf Apartments) is located in the Docklands area, along the northern bank of the Yarra River on the edge of the Melbourne city centre. The 300- apartment complex is home to a multicultural blend of personalities and is a short walk from Southern Cross station , Flinders Street station , Crown ...
The Duke of Wellington Hotel is a heritage listed hotel within the Melbourne CBD in Victoria, Australia. Named after the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, it was designed by Richard Dalton for Timothy Lane, a local businessman and carpenter.
The Jolimont Railway Yards, that occupied the southern edge of the Hoddle grid, were considered for redevelopment many times throughout the early to mid 20th century.In 1963, Victorian premier Henry Bolte announced that the State Government was to sell the air-rights over a small portion of the railyards closest to Flinders Street, up to Swanston Street, which was occupied by the Princes ...
In 1972, 140 William Street (formerly BHP House) became Melbourne's first building to surpass the height of 150 metres (490 ft), and thus, Melbourne's first "skyscraper". The William Street building was the city's tallest for a few years, and remains one of the few heritage registered skyscrapers in Melbourne.
Market Street is one of the north–south streets in the Melbourne central business district, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837. Market Street is the only major deviation to the Hoddle Grid , in that it only runs between Flinders Street and Collins Street , such that its vista is terminated by the art-deco Temple Court ...
The Citistate development group bought the hotel in June 1987 at a price of $55 million. [13] While preservationists wanted to save the structures, Citistate had purchased the building in a vacant state and claimed the building was a fire hazard, despite being a graded building in a heritage precinct, the City of Melbourne allowed the demolition.
The Windsor pre-dates other notable grand hotels including The Waldorf Astoria in New York, the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, the Ritz in Paris and the Savoy in London. [ 1 ] The Windsor is situated on Bourke Hill in the Parliament Precinct on Spring Street , and is a Melbourne landmark of high Victorian architecture .
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