1880 Exhibition Building Drawing - Ground Level Elizabeth Street Notes from the State Library

Notes from the State Library of Victoria say that the image is "Looking along Spring Street with balustrade and street lamp of Treasury building in left foreground

The original of this map is Plate IX from A Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders

until it was deemed advisable to erect a 3 foot timber barricade forward of the bridge

Paul's Cathedral before spires erected at a fire watch tower visible in background

taken from the steps of Parliament House in Spring Street

1880 Exhibition Building Drawing - Ground Level Elizabeth Street Notes from the State LibraryA 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.