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    Mutual Building, 9 Degraves Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
    The BuildingsDEGRAVES STREET

    Mutual Building

    ArchitectReed, Smart & Tappin
    Completed1891
    StyleVictorian
    The building

    The Mutual Store was Melbourne's first department store, run by a company set up in 1872 in which the staff shared the profits alongside the shareholders. After a fire destroyed the original store on New Year's Day 1891, the architecture firm Reed, Smart & Tappin designed the present building, rebuilt the same year. The Council of Adult Education occupied it for almost forty years before it was converted to apartments in 2006.

    In brief

    1. 1872The Mutual Store company established, with staff sharing in the profits
    2. 1891Rebuilt after a fire destroyed the original store on New Year's Day
    3. 1965The department store closed
    4. 2006Converted to apartments
    The record

    What has sold at Mutual Building.

    Sales recorded
    Two
    Range
    $608,000 – $761,000

    303/9 Degraves Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

    $761,000

    208/9 Degraves Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

    $608,000

    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
    Nature266 m · 3 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
    Dining91 m · 1 min walk
    MoVida
    Frank Camorra's tapas bar opened in 2003 down graffiti-covered Hosier Lane and taught the city to eat Spanish.
    3
    Character130 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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