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194316

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
194228

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
67420

Former Police Station & Old Police Cells

Former Bourke Street West Police Barracks ,  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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