The BuildingsCOLLINS STREET
Merigold on Collins (Merigold) — 241-243 Collins Street, aka 1 Manchester Lane
The building
Two four-storey brick warehouses went up on Collins Street in 1884. In 1912 the building's owners, the Fourth Victoria Permanent Property Building and Investment Society, had the architect Robert Haddon raise it to six storeys and reface it: a plain white-rendered front with whimsical decorative touches, one of Melbourne's earliest buildings to look to modern European design. It was later converted to apartments.
In brief
- 1884Two four-storey brick warehouses built on the site
- 1886The Fourth Victoria Building Society acquires the building
- 1911The Society commissions Robert Haddon to redesign it
- 1912Remodelled to six storeys with Haddon's white-rendered Collins Street facade
- 1971The Society's ownership ends
- 2004Added to the Victorian Heritage Register
The record
What has sold at Merigold on Collins (Merigold) — 241-243 Collins Street, aka 1 Manchester Lane.
Sales recorded
One
Sold at
$435,000
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
Nature484 m · 6 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
Dining318 m · 4 min walk
MoVida
Frank Camorra's tapas bar opened in 2003 down graffiti-covered Hosier Lane and taught the city to eat Spanish.
3
Character165 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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