Look what I found wandering home up a side street from #christmaslunch – the fabbo #FlemingtonCourtHouse, built 1891. Lombardic Romanesque ? Italian Byzantine ? All of the above ! Designed by #AJMacDonald, at a time in the later 1880s when the #PublicWorksDepartment were let loose to be inventive after decades of classical restraint. The police station up the back is equally good, one of the places that popped up about 1890 that ultimately developed into the Edwardian style. Even more so when it had the original big bay window.

The rather impressive #Flemington #PoliceStation built 1891 just behind the Court House was one of the very earliest examples of domestic style #EdwardianArchitecture in #Melbourne; and thanks to @jdflemington finding this photo of it in 1949 we can see that it had a great huge #baywindow that sort of went up and supported the leaning out roof. #AJMacDonald, for the #publicworksdepartment, 1891.

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