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Flinders Lane is a minor street and thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district of Victoria, Australia.The laneway runs east–west from Spring Street to Spencer Street in-between Flinders and Collins streets.
Ross House was originally built as the Sargood Warehouse in 1898–1900, for Melbourne softgood importer Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, whose company name at the time was Sargood, Butler, Nichol and Ewen. [2] Frederick Sargood was a wealthy man, and is known for building the extensive house and garden, the Rippon Lea Estate in Elsternwick.
This small office building at 40-46 Elizabeth Street near Flinders Lane was designed by renowned architect Walter Burley Griffin, who was from Chicago, and had settled in Melbourne after winning the competition to design Canberra in 1913. It was commissioned by Russian-Australian Nisson Leonard-Kavensky, a successful clothing manufacturer, and ...
Flinders Lane. Flinders Lane is a minor street. The street runs parallel to and to the north of Flinders Street and as a narrow one way lane takes on the name of the wider main street. The street was the centre of Melbourne's rag trade for the middle decades of the 20th century and is still home to small boutique designers.
The land between the south side of Flinders Street and the railway viaduct between Spencer and King Streets was once home to the Melbourne City Markets, [b] an ornate building constructed in 1890, covering 23,000 square metres. The market buildings were demolished between 1958 and 1960, after which the site became a public carpark.
Market Street, facing north from Flinders Street 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 ...
Flinders Lane was in the heart of the rag trade in Melbourne and was lined with fabric warehouses. [1] The Majorca Building was built on the corner of Centre Place, which provided access to the Centreway Arcade, and it terminates the vista looking north along Degraves Street, another laneway. Together, they provided access through from Flinders ...
The Hoddle Grid and its fringes remained the centre and most active part of the city into the mid 20th century, with retail in the centre, fine hotels, banking and prime office space on Collins Street, medical professionals on the Collins Street hill, legal professions around William Street, and warehousing along Flinders Lane and in the ...