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On the corner of Little Collins Street and King Street is the city's first and only school, Melbourne City School, housed in a three-story bluestone heritage building. At the western end is Bank Place, a significant old lane which provides pedestrian access to Collins Street between Queen and William streets. The block between Queen and William ...
McKillop Street is a short, quiet and narrow open laneway, running between Bourke Street and Little Collins Street between Queen Street and Elizabeth Street in the central business district of Melbourne. Located between the financial centre and shopping precinct, McKillop Street is currently flanked by some small boutique shops and outdoor ...
260 Collins (formerly St. Collins Lane) is a shopping centre completed in 2016, designed by ARM Architecture, located between Collins and Little Collins streets in Melbourne, Australia. The centre is located beneath a hotel occupying the upper nine floors.
Collins Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It was laid out in the first survey of Melbourne, the original 1837 Hoddle Grid, and soon became the most desired address in the city. [1]
Victoria Coffee Palace, Collins Street adjacent to the Melbourne Town Hall, 1880 (occupying a building that had opened as the Victoria Club in 1877). [19] The Collins Street frontage was demolished when the town hall was extended in the 1920s, but the Little Collins Street part, built 1880s and 1920s, survives as the Victoria Hotel [20]
Yule House. Yule House is a five-story office building situated at 309-311 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia.It was constructed in 1932 from a design by Melbourne-based architecture firm, Oakley & Parkes.
From the 1870s, the north side of Collins Street between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets became the most fashionable shopping area in Melbourne, known as ‘the block’. The Cafe Gunsler was established in 1879, located in the centre of the block, and was one of the most fashionable restaurants and event venues in the city.
An 1880 illustration by Samuel Thomas Gill shows Melburnians "doing the Block". By the late 1870s, the north side of Collins Street between Swanston and Elizabeth streets had become the favoured promenade of Melbourne's well-to-do, who went there to frequent its prestigious shops and cafes, and to see and be seen as they walked from one end to the other.