1888–1900Melbourne

Collins Street, Grosvenor Chambers

Uncertain. State Library of Victoria holds the view; a possible attribution to Charles Cheney Simpson is not fixed on the print.

Street photograph

Collins Street, Grosvenor Chambers, 1888–1900. Uncertain. State Library of Victoria holds the view; a possible attribution to Charles Cheney Simpson is not fixed on the print.. Street photograph. — 1888–1900·Melbourne
Collins Street, Grosvenor Chambers
Uncertain. State Library of Victoria holds the view; a possible attribution to Charles Cheney Simpson is not fixed on the print.
Street photograph · Altered

What this plate shows

A street photograph. Collins Street: Grosvenor Chambers lettered on the facade, arcades and a balcony, a horse cab, a cable tram, a domed block further along. After 1888, and within a catalog range that runs to 1900. Not a bird’s-eye of Melbourne.

Image type: Street photograph
Structure: Grosvenor Chambers, Collins Street.
Region: Australia
Documented completion: 1888.
Architect: John Beswicke.
Present status: Altered — Grosvenor Chambers still stands. The cable tram, the roadway, and the neighboring fronts do not match the present street. The photographer is uncertain.
Source: State Library of Victoria albumen print, Collins Street near Spring Street. Catalog range 1880–1900. The facade in the picture is lettered Grosvenor Chambers, completed 1888, so the exposure is not earlier than that. Scale of that scan.
License: Public domain.

Collections where this plate appears

08B.S. | Before SkyscrapersWhat was already standing before the skyscraper skyline. Period photographs, about 1840–1900. Streets, plazas, and city views first. Named structures only where the plate actually shows them. No claim about why they were built.