Melbourne Town Hall. Burnt down with a match and cotton candy!!!

Here is the bullshit history.........Bare in mind we only founded melbourne as a few convicts in 1835-40 and gawd damn we were industrious little slaves whipping this up basically in year one of occupation. Not a factory farm or toilet in site. Just some first settlers and THE MELBOURNE FUCK OFF TOWN HALL. Just saying ....... #historyisalie #tartarianhuntersmelbourne

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In the 1840s the question of a site for a town hall was referred to the council’s Works Committee. The committee recommended that 4.047 hectares (10 acres) of land situated on Eastern Hill should be granted to the corporation as a reserve on which to erect a town hall and that a foundation stone be laid on the site (where Parliament House now stands).

Superintendent La Trobe agreed to the committee’s proposal. However, influential council member Dr A F A Greeves opposed it, instead suggesting the site at the corner of Collins and Swanston streets because of its central position and convenience. Although the committee’s recommendations had already been adopted, the resolution was later amended in favour of the site suggested by Dr Greeves, which is where Melbourne Town Hall stands today.

Construction
Construction of the first town hall, a modest brick building, began in 1850, but a labour shortage brought about by gold discoveries in 1851 delayed completion until 1854. This building was demolished in the mid-1860s.

On 29 November 1867 the Duke of Edinburgh laid the foundation stone for a new town hall which was completed in 1870. The new building was officially opened by the Governor of Victoria on 9 August 1870.

The tower was named Prince Alfred’s Tower after the Duke of Edinburgh who, on his second visit to Melbourne in 1869, laid a capital on one of the columns of the town hall clock tower. The Duke was the first official guest in the soon-to-be-completed town hall.

The portico on the Swanston Street frontage of the building was added in 1887.