3 July 2019, updated:
Hadn’t really noticed this one before, in Elizabeth Street up from Collins, turns out to be a super narrow Victorian thing that was done over in early 1930 for Ackman’s Furniture, who’s main store was in Smith Street (behind that propped up Woolworths facade). See the A on top ?
The redesign was by #GawlerAndDrummond. Before Ackmans it was the Thistle Tearoom and then in 1938 Suttons Music moved in. And it’s #CranbourneMusic now ! Looks like it’s one of the handful of city buildings still empty above the ground floor- it goes back a long way, so looong and narrow, probably dark, floors, with only stairs up.
2021 : Cranbourne have changed their name to Coleman.
2025:
Update, I was wrong, the current sale ad notes all floors usable, I can see a lift, but it’s only 6.1m wide! Groovy attached fire escape on Equitable Place, which is where the entry to upstairs is. Further update : the upper floors havnt been used since the 90s, and it sold for $6m.
Storey of Melbourne 