The BuildingsLITTLE COLLINS STREET
The Canns
The building
Cann's, the drapers, built on this corner of Swanston and Little Collins streets in 1919–20. Nahum Barnet designed it and the Reinforced Concrete & Monier Pipe Co built it, adding a storey while it went up. In the 1930s Marcus Barlow took it higher, and his floors swap Barnet's cement ornament for vertical ribs and a zigzag parapet. The curved corner bay and first-floor balconette remain. It has been apartments since 1998.
In brief
- 1837Charles Swanston buys the allotment at Melbourne's first land sale.
- 1888A three-storey building with five shops stands on the corner: a tobacconist, a boot warehouse, a bookshop and a steam engraving workshop.
- 1919In February, Cann's lodges plans for a new shop and showrooms here, valued at £16,000, designed by Nahum Barnet.
- 1920The building is finished in reinforced concrete, a storey higher than first planned.
- 1998The building is subdivided into apartments.
At The Canns
Two apartments for sale.
For Sale902/260 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Penthouse Prestige Opposite Melbourne Town Hall
Listed by Suzie InglisMelbourne Boutique Property
Under Offer803/260 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
A Rare Corner Residence at Coveted Melbourne Address
Listed by Suzie InglisMelbourne Boutique Property
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