Former Queen Victoria Hospital: 172-254 Lonsdale Street,

Building Profile

Location

Construction Details

Built in the Edwardian period in the Queen Anne style

Notable features

The central part of the building features a rendered loggia on the second and third floors, surmounted by a balcony. The Tower is really one of several pavilions that once made up the hospital, and its central bay is itself flanked by two towers crowned with cupolas. An iron palisade fence on blue stone footings runs approximately three-quarters of the length of the Lonsdale Street frontage from Swanston Street and north along part of Swanston Street. Remnant sections of the bluestone base remain on all street frontages. The entrance fittings on Lonsdale Street are a significant reminder of the hospitals former grand scale. Although the hospital was completed after the death of JJ Clarke, it was considered to be the culmination of his career and one of his most important works.

History

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