Queen Street Melbourne underground public toilet

Queen Street is a street in the

Melbourne central business district The Melbourne central business district (colloquially known as "the City" or "the CBD", and gazetted simply as Melbourne) is the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As of the 2021 census, the CBD had a population of 54,941, and is ...

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. The street forms part of the original

Hoddle Grid The Hoddle Grid is the contemporary name given to the approximately grid of streets that form the Melbourne central business district, Australia. Bounded by Flinders Street, Spring Street, La Trobe Street, and Spencer Street, it lies at a ...

and was laid out in 1837. It runs roughly north-south and is primarily a commercial and financial thoroughfare of the central business district. Queen Street is named for

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline; 13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King ...

Geography

The northern end of Queen Street intersects with Victoria Street, while its southern end intersects with Flinders Street. Queen Street bisects the

Queen Victoria Market The Queen Victoria Market (also known colloquially as the Vic Market or Queen Vic) is a major landmark and public marketplace in the central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Covering over , it is the largest open air ...

into the dry section and wet section.

Notable buildings

As part of the traditional financial district of Melbourne, Queen Street is home to many buildings listed on

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and/or classified by the

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. These include: *

(1878) &

Old Melbourne Cemetery The Queen Victoria Market (also known colloquially as the Vic Market or Queen Vic) is a major landmark and public marketplace in the central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Covering over , it is the largest open air m ...

(1837) * John Smith's House (1852) * Former Bank of New South Wales (1860) * 203 Queen Street (1869) * Former Titles Office (1875) * Felton Building (1886) * Former ES&A (English, Scottish & Australian Bank) Building (1887) * Lombard Building (1889) * Former Safe Deposit Building (1891) * Former Records Office (1904) *

Aldersgate House Aldersgate is a Wards of the City of London, Ward of the City of London, England, named after one of the northern City gate, gates in the London Wall which once enclosed the City. The Ward of Aldersgate is traditionally divided into Aldersga ...

(1924) *

Alkira House Alkira House is a historic building in Melbourne, Australia. It is widely regarded as one of Melbourne’s most stunning examples of Art Deco architecture. Built in 1936 by architect, James Wardrop (architect), James Wardrop, Alkira House is lo ...

(1937) * ACA (Australian Catholic Assurance) Building (1937) * National Trustees Executors & Agency Co (1939) * Several underground

public conveniences A public toilet, restroom, bathroom or washroom is a room or small building with toilets (or urinals) and sinks for use by the general public. The facilities are available to customers, travelers, employees of a business, school pupils or pris ...

There are also many notable high-rise office buildings along Queen Street, including: * 200 Queen Street (1982) *

ANZ Bank The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly known as ANZ Bank, is a multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is Australia's second-largest bank by assets and fo ...

Tower (1993) *

Republic Tower A republic, based on the Latin phrase ''res publica'' ('public affair' or 'people's affair'), is a State (polity), state in which Power (social and political), political power rests with the public (people), typically through their Representat ...

(299 Queen Street) *

Bank of China The Bank of China (BOC; ; Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Banco da China'') is a state-owned Chinese Multinational corporation, multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Beijing, Beijing, China. It is one of ...

(270 Queen Street) *

Former Fletcher Jones Building A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the ...

(1873)

Architecture

File:Oriental Bank in Melbourne, Australia (1870s).jpg, The Oriental Bank, pictured here in the 1870s, was located on the south-west corner of Queen Street and

Flinders Lane Flinders Lane is a minor road, street and thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district of Victoria, Australia. The laneway runs east–west from Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street to Spencer Street in-between Flinders Street, Me ...

, circa 1870s. The bank went out of business in around 1884 and was demolished shortly afterwards. File:Former Records Office Melbourne.jpg, Former Records Office File:Queen Street Melbourne Heritage Buildings.jpg, A. C. Goode House File:Victorian era buildings Queen Street Melbourne.jpg, Lombard Building File:Melbourne safe deposit building.jpg, Melbourne Safe Deposit Building

Queen Street massacre

On 8 December 1987 a gunman killed eight people and injured five others at the

Australia Post Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation and also known as AusPost, is an Australian Government-State-owned enterprise, owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is loca ...

offices at 191 Queen Street. The gunman Frank Vitkovic eventually fell from a building window taking the death toll to nine. A memorial window for the victims is located at the

General Post Office The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific ...

on Elizabeth and Bourke Streets.

Geography

Notable buildings

Architecture

Queen Street massacre

References

See also