1880 Exhibition Building Drawing - Ground LevelA beautiful drawing from 1880 of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne, drawn by the architect, Joseph Reed. The building was constructed for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880. Reed also designed or was involved in the design of many other Melbourne icons, such as the current Melbourne Town Hall, and the State Library building. The builder was David Mitchell, who also constructed Melbourne's Scots' Church and St Patrick's Cathedral.

cut into the Geebung's stern

In October 1836 Governor Bourke had sent a small team of surveyors

The building was completed in 1872 and the first Melbourne sovereign was minted on the 8th of July that year

looking south from Bourke Street

and was published in the Supplement to "The Australasian Sketcher

white and green

it's worth fighting for

some 700m away from the photographer

The notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "Pictorial map looking south

from Hadley's City Family Hotel

particularly since the 1860s

the first stage of which was completed in 1929