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Frontages of successful merchant houses next to Christian churches (Slide 5)
Andrew Jakubowicz.
By the 1890s, the red-brick frontages of successful merchant houses sat side by side with Christian churches, society clubhouses and other 'respectable' premises that gave Little Bourke Street its distinctive late-Victorian solidity and human scale.
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unknown
Date Added:
03 February 2009
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Transcript
By the 1890s, the red-brick frontages of successful merchant houses sat side by side with Christian churches, society clubhouses and other ‘respectable’ premises that gave Little Bourke Street its distinctive late-Victorian solidity and human scale. The fabric of Melbourne’s ‘Chinese Quarter’ was added to and improved from its beginnings in the 1850s to its peak and then decline by the 1920s.
Museum of Chinese Australian History
Item: 2006.01.03; c. 1920s
Photographer Samuel Him, 55 Madeline St, Carlton
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