City of Melbourne Buildings: 112 - 118 Elizabeth St
, MELBOURNE 
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| Building ProfileName : City of Melbourne Buildings
LocationAddress: 112 - 118 Elizabeth St
City: MELBOURNE
Postcode: 3000
City of Melbourne Buildings is a landmark
Construction DetailsBuilt: 1888
Original use: Commercial
Current use:
Built in the Victorian period in the Queen Anne style
Notable featuresAn eclectic Victorian composition. A very Anglo-Dutch version of the Queen Anne style with gaudily picturesque motifs. Two buildings of different style in combination. HistoryThe Melbourne City Building is a four-storey brick building designed by W.H. Ellerker and E.G. Kilburn in 1888 for the short lived City of Melbourne Building Society, chaired at one time by Alfred Deakin. The building has two facades, to Elizabeth Street and Little Collins Street and returns on a curved rather than a splayed corner. The design eclectically combines classical elements such as columns, pilasters, aedicules and Baroque-style pediments with a picturesque roofline of steeply pitched slate roofs, wrought iron decoration and massive chimneys. The building was originally served internally by an Otis hydraulic lift.
Architect: Ellerker And Kilburn
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