Austral Building, Collins St (Melbourne Central Activities District (CAD) Conservation Study 1985 survey images: approx 1200 Kodak colour negatives)
`Alex McKinley and Co., publishers of Melbourne Punch, engaged architect Nahum Barnet to design these shops and offices in 1890. Builders J and J Baxter had completed the contract by 1891, preceding a diverse list of tenants which included one Sydney Spark who specialised in magnetic massage among other things; E Thompson-Boyd, an American dentist and two clubs, the Lyric Club and Austral Dramatic Club. Charles Fraser and Miss E. Walter had artists' studios there, as did the renowned photographer, John W. Lindt. As a change from the usual dentist-doctor enclave, other tenants were music teachers, Thomas Hammond and William Hunter, and a botanist, William Terry. Felton Grimwade and Co. occupied the ground level around 1910 and, safely confined to the basement, was the Victorian Spiritualists Association.'
Austral Building, Collins St (Melbourne Central Activities District (CAD) Conservation Study 1985 survey images: approx 1200 Kodak colour negatives)
`Alex McKinley and Co., publishers of Melbourne Punch, engaged architect Nahum Barnet to design these shops and offices in 1890. Builders J and J Baxter had completed the contract by 1891, preceding a diverse list of tenants which included one Sydney Spark who specialised in magnetic massage among other things; E Thompson-Boyd, an American dentist and two clubs, the Lyric Club and Austral Dramatic Club. Charles Fraser and Miss E. Walter had artists' studios there, as did the renowned photographer, John W. Lindt. As a change from the usual dentist-doctor enclave, other tenants were music teachers, Thomas Hammond and William Hunter, and a botanist, William Terry. Felton Grimwade and Co. occupied the ground level around 1910 and, safely confined to the basement, was the Victorian Spiritualists Association.'