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Bourke Street East - Historic Area
Bourke Street between Exhibition & Spring Streets,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B7231 |
The Bourke Street east precinct comprises those buildings and the resultant space on both sides of Bourke Street between Exhibition and Spring Street that frame the view of Parliament House as seen at eye level from the Exhibition/Bourke Street intersection. The precinct includes the streetscapes on both sides of Bourke Street between Exhibition and Spring Steets and the space above and around the street that affects the quality of the view corridor to Parliament House. This ... more |
B7231 |
State |
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Little Bourke Street & Environs - Historic Area
Little Bourke Street between Swanston & Exhibition Streets,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B7240 |
Little bourke Street & Environsbetween Swanston and Exhibition streets, has a concentration of buildings occupied by Chinese goods and services for sale. This gives the area a distinctive character immediately identifiable to most Melbournians, and allows the area legitimately to be called a 'Chinatown'. Chinatowns are found in many western and southeast Asia cities, and there was once a number of chinatowns in mining and rural settlments throughout Australia, but today ... more |
B7240 |
National |
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Former Police Station & Old Police Cells
Former Bourke Street West Police Barracks
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Former Bourke Street West Police Station and Cells
621 - 629 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B2477 |
Classified as a group, the Bourke Street West Police Station and attendant Cell Block have no matching examples as to function and design in Melbourne's central business district. Both were built under the direction of the Public Works Department: the brick police station, a well-proportioned statement with restrained gothic elements and carriageway entrance, was built in 1887-8 to the design of S.E. Bindley and S.C. Brittingham and the basalt cell block with its extended ... more |
B2477 |
Regional |
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