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The Paris End
Collins Street east of Swanston, climbing to the Old Treasury.
Every city has one street everyone would live on if they could; Melbourne's climbs from Swanston Street to the Old Treasury. The shopfronts along the rise are the dressiest in the country, the Treasury Gardens sit behind the top of the street, and the apartment houses have been doing the same job since the twenties.
Collins Street east of Swanston, rising to the Spring Street institutions. The street trees, planted in the French boulevard manner from 1875, gave these blocks their name — in everyday use as 'the Paris End' by the early 1950s. Scots' Church (1874), the Athenaeum's 1886 facade, and the Old Treasury Building (1858–62) still set the register: dressed stone, deep foyers, and dinner within a short walk.
- Street trees
- Planted in the French boulevard manner from 1875 — the plantations behind the 'Paris End' name.
- City of Melbourne
- 'The Paris End'
- In everyday use by the early 1950s, when Mirka and Georges Mora took rooms at 9 Collins Street.
- St Kilda Historical Society
Buildings to start with.
- 011 ExhibitionCommercial Renaissance Palazzo1925
- 02Herald Sun BuildingNeo Classical1921
- 03
- 04Sargood HouseInter War Concrete Warehouse1929
- 05Sheraton Private ResidencesInter War Commercial2013
- 062001
- 072014
- 082023
The name arrived in the fifties.
Mirka and Georges Mora took rooms at 9 Collins Street in the fifties, when the comparison with Paris still needed making — the plane trees had been in since 1875, planted in the French style, and the street had grown into them. Seventy years on, nobody has asked for the name back.
Built in the twenties, never bettered.
The dressiest few blocks in the country are also a place people live. Sargood House by Godfrey & Spowers, Cavendish House by A & K Henderson, the Herald Sun Building of 1921 — deep foyers, dressed stone, staircases built properly the first time. A century on, these are still the addresses the east end is judged by.
On the market in The Paris End.
5 public listings currently filed to this precinct.
107/182 Collins Street
Not Just a Studio. A Piece of Melbourne History.
Clyde House · 1915
2009/35 Spring Street
Bates Smart Brilliance on the Paris End of Spring Street
35 Spring Street · 2017
501/182 Collins Street
Clyde House · 1915
707/182 Collins Street
The One They Didn’t Make Twice.
Clyde House · 1915
101/17 Spring Street
Protected views across the Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens
17 Spring Street · 2023
The Paris End
From the Journal
On the Paris End of Collins Street
Laid out in 1837, planted with elms in 1875, named by the early 1950s — the eastern end of Collins Street is where Melbourne's heritage is lived in, not visited.
One Exhibition, 1 Exhibition Street
The Victorian Cricket Association built this seven-storey corner tower in 1925 to fund the game — on a street then called Collins Place. It has been apartments since 1993.