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    Dover's Building, 7 Drewery Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
    The BuildingsDREWERY LANE

    Dover's Building

    ArchitectHugh Ralston Crawford
    Completed1910
    The building

    Built in 1909-10 as a warehouse and cigarette factory for the tobacco firm Sniders and Abrahams, this was the first building in Australia to use the Turner Mushroom System of flat-slab reinforced concrete. The engineer and architect Hugh Ralston Crawford designed it as five storeys and added two more in 1938. It later housed Dover's Printery, which gave it its name, and was converted to apartments in the 1990s.

    View on the heritage register (H0802) →

    In brief

    1. 1910Completed as a warehouse and cigarette factory for Sniders and Abrahams, the first Australian building to use the Turner Mushroom flat-slab concrete system
    2. 1938Two storeys added, again designed by Hugh Ralston Crawford
    3. 1989Added to the Victorian Heritage Register
    4. 2019Awarded an Engineering Heritage Marker by Engineers Australia
    The record

    What has sold at Dover's Building.

    Sales recorded
    Three
    Range
    $905,000 – $980,000

    8/7 Drewery Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000

    $980,000

    38/7 Drewery Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000

    SOLD - Price Withheld

    1/7 Drewery Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000

    $905,000

    The doorstep

    Three places within a short walk.

    What each one is, and how far it is from the front door. Select a place to see it on the map.

    1
    Nature153 m · 2 min walk
    State Library Victoria forecourt
    The city's de facto front lawn, where the chess players and the lunch crowd gather beneath the Library's columns.
    2
    Dining448 m · 6 min walk
    Flower Drum
    Gilbert Lau's 1975 Cantonese fine-diner on Market Lane, still the room Melbourne books for an occasion.
    3
    Character609 m · 8 min walk
    The Melbourne Athenaeum
    Founded in 1839, it housed the city's first library and gallery and still runs a subscription library above Collins St.
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