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Image	Name	Detail	File number	Level
	Centreway Arcade 259 - 263 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6383	Designed by noted architects H W and F B Tompkins and built in 1911-12, the Centreway Arcade is of State significance as an early and externally well preserved example of Edwardian Baroque, as one of the first all steel framed commercial buildings in Melbourne and as an example of the continuing tradition of arcade building in central Melbourne. The design illustrates the Tompkins' preference for Edwardian Baroque until their Modern-Gothic Myer Bourke Street design. French style ... more	B6383	State
	Former Prahran Arcade Centreway Arcade 282 - 284 Chapel Street,, PRAHRAN VIC 3181 - Property No B0589	Designed as the Prahran Arcade in 1889 by George McMullen, a local prominent architect, and built by James Mc Mullen, this substantial but elegant arcade incorporated about 30 shops along with Turkish baths, the Arcade Club Hotel, billiard rooms, a restaurant, a bakehouse and capacious cellars. The Arcade was opened on July 31st 1890 with a grand banquet in the hotel attended by the Mayor and local dignitaries and organised by the first owner, Mrs Elizabeth Delaney. By 1891 the ... more	B0589	State

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Centreway Arcade

259 - 263 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6383

Designed by noted architects H W and F B Tompkins and built in 1911-12, the Centreway Arcade is of State significance as an early and externally well preserved example of Edwardian Baroque, as one of the first all steel framed commercial buildings in Melbourne and as an example of the continuing tradition of arcade building in central Melbourne. The design illustrates the Tompkins' preference for Edwardian Baroque until their Modern-Gothic Myer Bourke Street design. French style ... more

B6383

State

Former Prahran Arcade

Centreway Arcade

282 - 284 Chapel Street,, PRAHRAN VIC 3181 - Property No B0589

Designed as the Prahran Arcade in 1889 by George McMullen, a local prominent architect, and built by James Mc Mullen, this substantial but elegant arcade incorporated about 30 shops along with Turkish baths, the Arcade Club Hotel, billiard rooms, a restaurant, a bakehouse and capacious cellars. The Arcade was opened on July 31st 1890 with a grand banquet in the hotel attended by the Mayor and local dignitaries and organised by the first owner, Mrs Elizabeth Delaney. By 1891 the ... more

B0589

State