Repost this day 2019: The back end of the #StateLibraryOfVictoria was built in 1906, and has a very well proportioned classical #portico entrance with a little Baroque scroll flourish, but the upper level is intriguing, being so stripped down it becomes almost Modernist, could be something from the 1930s. This end was supposed to be a very grand Museum building, at least according to an 1860 rendering by #JosephReedArchitect who did the 1853 front, and whose successor form #BatesPeeblesAndSmart designed this wing, and this door led to the Museum end of the complex, but really entry to both was from the front. The Museum moved out in 2000.
Storey of Melbourne 