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Queen Street, Melbourne

Street in Melbourne, Victoria

Queen Street, Melbourne

Street in Melbourne, Victoria

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direction_bSouth
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end_aLily Street
North Melbourne, Melbourne
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end_bFlinders Street
Melbourne CBD
imageColoured postcard of Queen Street, Melbourne.jpg
captionQueen Street circa 1890
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alternative_location_mapAustralia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne

North Melbourne, Melbourne

  • Victoria Street
  • Franklin Street
  • A'Beckett Street
  • La Trobe Street
  • Lonsdale Street
  • Bourke Street
  • Collins Street Melbourne CBD
A classic underground toilet on Queen Street

Queen Street is a street in the Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia. The street forms part of the original Hoddle Grid and was laid out in 1837. It runs roughly north-south and is primarily a commercial and financial thoroughfare of the central business district.

Queen Street is named for Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.

Geography

The northern end of Queen Street intersects with Victoria Street, while its southern end intersects with Flinders Street. Queen Street bisects the Queen Victoria Market into the dry section and wet section.

Notable buildings

As part of the traditional financial district of Melbourne, Queen Street is home to many buildings listed on Victorian Heritage Register and/or classified by the National Trust of Australia. These include:

  • Queen Victoria Market (1878) & Old Melbourne Cemetery (1837)
  • John Smith's House (1852)
  • Former Bank of New South Wales (1860)
  • 203 Queen Street (1869)
  • Former Titles Office (1875)
  • Felton Building (1886)
  • Former ES&A (English, Scottish & Australian Bank) Building (1887)
  • Lombard Building (1889)
  • Former Safe Deposit Building (1891)
  • Former Records Office (1904)
  • Aldersgate House (1924)
  • Alkira House (1937)
  • ACA (Australian Catholic Assurance) Building (1937)
  • National Trustees Executors & Agency Co (1939)
  • Several underground public conveniences There are also many notable high-rise office buildings along Queen Street, including:
  • 200 Queen Street (1982)
  • ANZ Bank Tower (1993)
  • Republic Tower (299 Queen Street)
  • Bank of China (270 Queen Street)
  • Former Fletcher Jones Building (1873)

Architecture

File:Oriental Bank in Melbourne, Australia (1870s).jpg|The Oriental Bank, pictured here in the 1870s, was located on the south-west corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane, circa 1870s. The bank went out of business in around 1884 and was demolished shortly afterwards. File:Former Records Office Melbourne.jpg|Former Records Office File:Queen Street Melbourne Heritage Buildings.jpg|A. C. Goode House File:Victorian era buildings Queen Street Melbourne.jpg|Lombard Building File:Melbourne safe deposit building.jpg|Melbourne Safe Deposit Building

Queen Street massacre

Main article: Queen Street massacre

On 8 December 1987 a gunman killed eight people and injured five others at the Australia Post offices at 191 Queen Street. The gunman Frank Vitkovic eventually fell from a building window taking the death toll to nine.

A memorial window for the victims is located at the General Post Office on Elizabeth and Bourke Streets.

References

References

  1. "Melbourne city grid {{!}} Ergo".
  2. "Melbourne's Streets & Lanes". [[Royal Historical Society of Victoria]].
  3. "About - Queen Victoria Market". Queen Victoria Market.
  4. (6 December 2007). "Melbourne remembers Queen St massacre".
  5. Design, UBC Web. "Australian Post and Telecom Credit Union Victims Memorial {{!}} Monument Australia".
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