Melbourne's Little Lon Crime Tour

Punch Lane Wine Bar and Restaurant occupies a building that served as a Melbourne police station during the time authorities were searching for the bushranger Ned Kelly. The structure sits on a corner at forty-three Little Bourke Street,…

Thirty-two Lonsdale Street sits within the area once known as Little Lon, a district that became notorious in the nineteenth century as a center for Melbourne’s vice and slum life. While the neighborhood has been heavily redeveloped, the…

Casselden Place is a narrow, historic laneway located between Exhibition and Spring streets in the heart of Melbourne. Today, it is largely defined by the towering office complex that bears its name, but a single, red-brick cottage at…

Little Lon Distilling Company occupies the last remaining single-story red brick cottage in Melbourne's central business district. Built around eighteen seventy-seven, this compact structure sits at seventeen Casselden Place, a remnant of…

Exploration Lane is a narrow residential thoroughfare tucked into the grid of central Melbourne. It provides access to high-rise apartment living in an area defined by dense urban construction and vertical expansion. The lane runs between…

Building twenty at RMIT University, located on the corner of La Trobe and Russell streets, is the former Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Completed in nineteen fourteen, the building is designed in a French Romanesque style, characterized by…

The City Watch House stands as a solid brick building on Russell Street, distinguished by the fact that its original interior remains complete in every respect. Built between nineteen oh seven and nineteen oh eight, it replaced a disused…

The Old Melbourne Gaol is a fortress of heavy, dark-grey bluestone blocks that occupies a full city block on Russell Street. Between eighteen forty-five and nineteen twenty-four, this site functioned as the primary prison for the colony of…