Young & Jackson, Melbourne

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Young and Jackson

Established	1861
Address	Corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne, VIC 3000.

Young and Jackson is a famous pub in Melbourne, Australia, at the corner of Flinders Street and Swanston Street.

[edit] History

The site was purchased by John Batman in 1837 at Melbourne's first Crown land sale. On the site was built a home for his children, which became a schoolhouse in 1839. Warehouses were erected on the site after the schoolhouse was razed in 1853. The Princes Bridge Hotel opened there on 1 July 1861. The Hotel was renamed to Young and Jackson after the Irish diggers who took it over in 1875 - Henry Young and Thomas Jackson.

[edit] Chloe

The pub is well known for the nude painting Chloé, painted by French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre in 1875. It was purchased for 850 guineas by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald of Lonsdale Street in Melbourne. After being hung in the National Gallery of Victoria for three weeks in 1883, it was withdrawn from exhibition because of the uproar created especially by the Presbyterian Assembly [1]. It was bought for the Young and Jackson Hotel in 1908 for 800 pounds. The painting was damaged in 1943 by an American serviceman who threw a glass of beer at it.