Original post 1 October 2015 Cambridge Terrace, Drummond Street Carlton, just north of Princes Street; named after the home town of the bricklayer owner/developer, which also explains the dominating #brickyness. A row of six, apparently the first part (which part I don't know) built 1867, pretty early for face #brickwork and #polychromebrick for that matter. … Continue reading Pretty brick terrace, Carlton →

Original post 4 October 2019 Stanthorpe, built 1874, Barkly Street, St Kilda, #CrouchandWilson architects. #StKilda has quite a few large houses, big terraces and even some mansions from the late 19th century, scattered between and behind the interwar and postwar flats, from when it was maybe the second most desirable suburb after Toorak. Apparently this … Continue reading Stanthorpe, St Kilda →

Original post 2 October 2018 The London Chartered Bank, architect Leonard Terry, 1871, a nice stone-built survivor on this prominent #BourkeStreet corner, probably because it stayed a bank until 1990. (Later #ESandAbank then ANZ). Plus it’s very nice. Pics 2 is 1929, @library_vic, and then a pic from the 1870s from @statelibrarynsw, showing that the … Continue reading London Chartered Bank, Bourke Street →

23 September 2019: From Swanston Street opposite the ex brewery - when I saw the plans for the one at the back, which faces Queensberry St, I couldn’t believe they were proposing apartments looking only into a #lightwell on the side of the building, or that the planners thought it was ok ! Between 4 … Continue reading Apartment standards (lack of) →

26 September 2023 In the middle of the Gothic Rialto/Olderfleet group in Collins Street is one that’s classical, but fits right in with its delicious level of detail, and matching height. Record Chambers was designed by J A B Koch (who did Labassa) and built in 1887 for the printing and publishing firm of McCarron, … Continue reading Record Chambers, Collins Street →

26 September 2023 This grand Neoclassical facade, featuring ionic columns, looks at home amongst the restrained 1850s bluestone classical warehouses at the bottom of King Street, but it’s actually much younger – it was built in 1937 for the Victorian Butter Factory, Cooperative, replacing, ‘two old bluestone warehouses’, and was designed by Marcus Barlow (famous … Continue reading Butter Factory Co-op later Inflation, King Street →

Original post 28 September 2018: The #MetropolitanFireBrigade HQ or at least main station, #EasternHill, built 1893, designed by#TaylerandFitts, and #SmithandJohnston, who had to combine their equal prize winning designs (somehow). The MFB was only formed in 1891, after years of part funded volunteer and insurance brigades and lots of fires. Great #firespotting tower, and nice … Continue reading Eastern Hill Fire Station →

Original post 22 September 2017: Not many painted signs left in the CBD, but there’s a big one half hidden on the side of Alstons Corner (ne Eliz & Collins) - closeup thanks to @nowvoyager_ Newman's was a jewellers, and according to the ad from 1936 I found, was started in the 1850s. An article … Continue reading Newmans have removed →

1 October 2023 When you look at the Rialto close up it has so much amazing detail - a picturesque roof line of gables and a spire (entirely made of zinc), lots of little windows, brick stripes, a variety of gothic details in the cement render, lots of coloured and patterned tiles, and stained glass … Continue reading Rialto, Collins Street →

Repost from 2019 : Alcaston House, top of Collins Street, #AandKHenderson, 1930. It does look splendid, though I’ve heard with the trams it’s pretty noisy. Funny but true that this is the only block of flats built in the city in the interwar period, but I guess the wealthy preferred to live in Toorak or … Continue reading Alcaston House →