26 July 2024:
Very nice Edwardian warehouse with some very elaborate Art Nouveau decoration in Queen Street near Lonsdale. All super curly, sort of vegetal forms, but so abstracted looks like seaweed. Designed by Gibbs & Finlay, and built in 1904, as an investment for solicitor Alexander Grant, the first occupant being a lithographer. The first floor is very solid, built with wrought iron beams, and mass concrete supported on curved corrugated iron (might be the special German Traegerwellblech fireproof system, might not). Bad pic of mine from 2012. Top floor has nice timber lined ceiling (pic from Google maps). Heritage listed in 2013.
Storey of Melbourne 