Queen Street, Melbourne

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Queen Street is a street in the Melbourne central business district, forming part of the famous Hoddle Grid. It runs roughly from north to south. The northern end of Queen Street intersects with Victoria Street, while its southern end intersects with Flinders Street. The northern end of Queen Street bisects the Queen Victoria Market into the dry section and wet section.

Queen Street is a mainly commercial and financial section of the central business district. There are many office buildings along the road. These include the world headquarters of ANZ at 100 Queen Street, the 32-storey building at 200 Queen Street, the Republic Towers at 299 Queen Street and the Bank of China building at 270 Queen Street

Victoria University also has a building on Queen Street.

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Republic Tower (corner of La Trobe Street)	Celtic Club (corner of La Trobe Street)	Former Records Office	200 Queen Street
Melbourne Safe Deposit Building	Gothic Bank, 388 Collins St (corner of Collins Street). Former head office of ES&A Bank; also includes the original Stock Exchange building.	Lombard House. Built in 1887 to the design of Reed, Henderson & Smart	Built in 1936 to the design of James Wardrop. One of the most striking Glazed architectural terra-cotta and glass brick clad Art Deco buildings in Australia
Bennelong House (Former Felton Building) at 9 Queen Street. Built in 1886. The last remaining and smallest of four office towers built for entrepeneur FW Prell.	ANZ World Headquarters, 100 Queen St. Built in 1993.

[edit] See also

• Queen Street Massacre, December 8, 1987 - Former law student, 22 year old Frank Vitkovic killed 8 people and injured 5 with a sawn off shotgun.