Original post 6 February 2017:
The beaut Courier Building on #DorcasStreet #SouthMelbourne, can’t find exact date, but I bet 1880s, crazy vertical three storey office building on a terrace house sized block. I can tell you however that the Courier was only published from 1900 to 1914 thanks the the #MelbourneCircle blog (or maybe 1881, see below)
10 August 2024
Unusual and charming little house in the short street behind the South Melbourne town hall, looking like some English regency parsonage- which is interesting since it was built for Rev William Potter, though he doesn’t seem to have been active minister, instead he ran the local newspaper, the Emerald Hill Record, and built the house and the adjacent oddly vertical office and printing house for the paper on the corner of Dorcas Street in 1882, the opening festivities covered in a full page spread in his paper. Another oddity is that the office and maybe the house was pretty much immediately sold to rival newspaper the Courier, who put their name up top (perhaps the Rev spent too much). The architect for the office was Sydney W Smith, who presumably also did the house, both in brown brick, otherwise not matching, but I guess they didn’t have to. The Record was still going into the 1990s.
Storey of Melbourne 