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    Sackville House, 27 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
    The BuildingsFLINDERS LANE

    Sackville House

    ArchitectJohn Wardle (1999 extension)
    The building

    Sackville House is a six-storey brick and concrete warehouse at the eastern end of Flinders Lane, built before 1934. It was occupied by the clothing manufacturer John Sackville Pty Ltd until 1934, when the firm moved out and the building was sold; the name, used informally, traces to that tenant. It was later converted to apartments, with two floors added on top, to a design by John Wardle.

    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
    Nature506 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
    Dining475 m · 6 min walk
    Florentino
    The upstairs Mural Room has been a grand Italian dining institution since the 1930s, its frescoes National Trust-classified.
    3
    Character517 m · 6 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

    Sackville House in The Journal

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    Flinders Lane, the rag-trade corridor

    Gazetted in 1843, signposted as Little Flinders Street into the 1930s, and known to the clothing trade simply as the Lane — the street where Melbourne's rag trade lived, now lived in.

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