Metropolitan Meat Market: 1-3 Blackwood Street, NORTH MELBOURNE
| Building ProfileName : Metropolitan Meat Market
LocationAddress: 1-3 Blackwood Street City: NORTH MELBOURNE
Postcode: 3051
Construction DetailsBuilt: 1879 - 1880 Original use: Commercial Current use: Commercial
number of floors : 2Built in the Victorian period in the Mannerist style
Notable featuresThe complex comprises a market hall with 16m span timber arches and a perimeter structure with offices, shops, bank, hotel and cooling chambers (added 1889-90). Other major additions were made in 1906-8 and 1918-22 (arches: Gibbs and Finlay). The two storey rendered brick facades are decorated with the giant Corinthian order. HistoryArchitect: G R Johnson
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