The building
Location
493- 495 Little Bourke Street, MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
Municipality
MELBOURNE CITY
Heritage Listing
National Trust
Level of significance
Regional
Category
Commercial
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An elegant four-storey office building, Stawell Chambers was erected in 1890. Designed in a restrained renaissance revival style, it houses many of the legal professions associated with the nearby Supreme Court.
Click to read more about the building's historySir William Stawell
Sir William Foster Stawell (27 June 1815 – 12 March 1889) was a British colonial statesman and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Stawell was the first Attorney-General of Victoria, serving from 1851 to 1856 as an appointed official sitting in the Victorian Legislative Council, and from 1856 until 1857, as an elected politician, representing Melbourne.
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