Doctors built townhouses at the Spring Street end and grand hotels like the wedding-cake style Federal went up. The gold rush funded a boom of neo-Gothic and Italianate bank and insurance buildings, handsome stone churches, and the most fashionable shops in the country. Named for Lieutenant-Governor David Collins, the western end near the port developed quickly but the eastern end initially was bushland, and the centre section between Swanston and Elizabeth was a haberdashery district. Melbourne was established in 1835 at the height of a globalised wool industry and 16 years later became known as New Gold Mountain with the gold rush. From the civic precinct around the Treasury at the ‘Paris end’ we head downhill to the religious, commercial and retail city and to the early ‘village’ settlement at the western end. Experience 180 years of iconic Melbourne places and explore the golden age of the Melbourne boom era. Other terms such as New Gold Mountain and the Land of the Golden Fleece described a city only 50 years old, yet bustling with boom-era palaces of commence, theatres, hotels, vaults, cathedrals, galleries, banks, artists and stock exchange.Īustralia’s ‘Premier Street’ extends from Parliament House to Southern Cross Station. When writer George Sala coined the term Marvellous Melbourne on a visit in 1885, the ‘Queen of the South’ was the biggest and wealthiest city in the British empire after London.
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