Stories behind the places we pass.
Midtown
Dover’s Building was built in 1910 as a cigarette factory for 900 cigarette makers. The staff had a skating rink on the roof.
Read the storyMidtown
The Mutual Store opposite Flinders Street Station burned out on New Year’s Day 1891 and was trading again the next morning. It was rebuilt to survive the next fire, and in 1897 it did.
Read the storyThe Theatre District
In 1891 Melbourne paid to stand in the middle of a painting of Paris under siege, in a round hall behind Little Collins Street. Its curved walls are still under The Georges.
Read the storyThe conversion census — every building here that began as something else.
