The BuildingsMANCHESTER LANE
Manchester House
The building
Manchester House was built in 1911–1912 to a design by the architecture firm Bates, Peebles & Smart, for the Adelaide clothing manufacturers G & R Wills and Company, marking their entry into the Melbourne clothing industry then centred on Flinders Lane. Built as a warehouse, showroom and offices for the clothing trade, it later took in retail and was converted to include apartments above the lower office floors.
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
Nature424 m · 5 min walk
Birrarung Marr
The city's first major new parkland in a century, terraced down to the Yarra with a Wurundjeri name meaning river of mists.
2
Dining270 m · 3 min walk
MoVida
Frank Camorra's tapas bar opened in 2003 down graffiti-covered Hosier Lane and taught the city to eat Spanish.
3
Character156 m · 2 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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