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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.
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 ...
Melbourne's first theatre opened on Bourke Street as the Pavilion (1841), and by the late 1840s the east end was established as Melbourne's main entertainment zone. Theatres and public halls were complemented by billiard halls , cigar divans, rifle galleries, bowling alleys and sideshows.
A view of the Excelsior Hotel on Bourke Street in 1861. The plot of land on 20-30 Bourke Street was occupied from the late 1850s Excelsior Hotel.The association between hotels and theatres at the time was close, and the hotel incorporated a hall (known as the Queen's Hall) used for vaudeville performances and other entertainment including boxing and wrestling.
A. C. Goode House, Queen Street Manchester Unity Building, Collins Street. 67 Spencer Street, former Victorian Railway Headquarters, now Grand Hotel Melbourne; 140 William Street (formerly BHP House) A. C. Goode House, Queen Street; Alkira House, Queen Street; Austral Building, Collins Street
Deva House is a 10-storey building located at 327-9 Bourke Street, CBD. It was designed by Harry Norris in 1925 (some sources say 1924), and completed in 1926, for his client George (G.J.) Coles, founder of the Coles Group retail empire. [1] Norris designed it during the same period, and in a similar style, to the better-known Nicholas Building.