December 19 2019:
Glimpsed before this view disappears for another 50 years behind the Pride Centre. Arbedour, 83 Fitzroy Street, is one of four 1880s row-mansions behind the shops on #FitzroyStreetStKilda, which are all set back the same, and all had shops built in the front gardens from the 1910s-1930s, all still there, more or less.
Surprisingly three of them kept their verandahs, with the back wall of the shops built a bit separate. The most famous one is Canterbury/Brooklawn, with one shop removed in the 80s revealing the grand entrance (and is where Alannah Hill once lived). This one called Arbedour was built 1881, and by 1924 was a guest house called Warrencourt, with ‘double and single vacancy’ – and tennis.
February 2018
Storey of Melbourne 