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    Merigold on Collins (Merigold) — 241-243 Collins Street, aka 1 Manchester Lane, 243 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
    The BuildingsCOLLINS STREET

    Merigold on Collins (Merigold) — 241-243 Collins Street, aka 1 Manchester Lane

    ArchitectRobert Haddon
    Completed1884
    StyleArts and Crafts
    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.

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    In brief

    1. 1884Two four-storey brick warehouses built on the site
    2. 1886The Fourth Victoria Building Society acquires the building
    3. 1911The Society commissions Robert Haddon to redesign it
    4. 1912Remodelled to six storeys with Haddon's white-rendered Collins Street facade
    5. 1971The Society's ownership ends
    6. 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
    $486,000

    23/243 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

    $486,000

    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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    From The Journal

    Merigold on Collins (Merigold) — 241-243 Collins Street, aka 1 Manchester Lane in The Journal

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    Manchester Lane, off Collins Street

    A short lane off Collins named the way drapers talk, where Robert Haddon's green-tiled 1912 front startled the trade press — and the warehouses now hold homes.

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