1874 Spring Street looking South from Lonsdale Street Treasury Building removed in 1885)

removed in 1885)

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sign on top of the theatre reads 'Barrister'

The New Opera House

1874 Spring Street looking South from Lonsdale Street Treasury Building removed in 1885)A photograph in 1874 of Spring Street, unusually looking south from Lonsdale Street. Parliament House is hidden behind the trees on the left (eastern) side of Spring Street. Way off to the south, across the Yarra, we can faintly see Government House, with its tower yet to be added. On the western side of Spring Street we can identify a number of properties from Collins Street up to Little Bourke Street. We have prepared an image highlighting these