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Block Arcade
280 - 286 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3336

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B3336 Block Arcade
B3336 Block Arcade
B3336 Block Arcade
B3336 Block Arcade Interior
B3336 Block Arcade Interior
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Statement of Significance

A particularly fine shopping arcade of 1890-93, designed by Twentyman and Askew in a Boom version of the French Renaissance style, with handsome plate glass shop windows, an octagon at the junction on the two arms, mosaic tiled floors, a glass roof of which some sheets survive with their original decoration, cast-iron roof principals with elegant openwork spandrels, and six and seven storey buildings facing on to Elizabeth and Collins Street: in all a late monument to the financial boom and to B. J. Fink, J. McAlister Howden and the other members of the City Property Company, for which it was built.
Classified: 19/07/1973
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