Bank of Australasia Headquarters

Not to be confused with the building on the SW corner designed by Wright, Reed & Beaver for Mutual Life in 1886, later occupied by BZNA

Former Bank of Australasia
Bank of Australasia
View of building from Collins Street
Map
General information
TypeBank
Architectural styleNeoclassical
Address394-398 Collins Street
Town or cityMelbourne, Victoria
CountryAustralia
Coordinates37°49′0.43″S 144°57′40.51″E / 37.8167861°S 144.9612528°E / -37.8167861; 144.9612528
Current tenantsResidential and Apartments at Melbourne
Construction started1876
Completed1881
Renovated1929, 1970
Design and construction
Architect(s)Reed and Barnes, A. K. Henderson
References
[1] [2]

The former Bank of Australasia Headquarters is an historic bank headquarters in Renaissance Revival style located on the corner of Queen Street and Collins Street, the traditional heart of Melbourne's financial precinct, with 19th Century banks on three corners.

The design is an amalgam of two periods, the first two floors built in 1875-6 designed by noted architects Reed & Barnes,[3] with the top three floors added in matching style along with a new chamber in 1929–31, designed by A&K Henderson.[4]

The Bank of Australasia[5] merged with the Union Bank of Australia to form the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group in 1951, and the new bank sold the building in 1974.[3] Since 2013 it has been a rental apartment building known as Treasury on Collins.[6][7]

It was amongst the first buildings listed on the Victorian Heritage Register on 9 October 1974, and later on the Register of the National Estate in 1983.[8]

  1. ^ "Former Bank of Australasia". 5 July 1958. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Former Bank of Australasia: 394-398 Collins Street, MELBOURNE". Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b "FORMER BANK OF AUSTRALASIA". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Council of Victoria. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Architectural Masterpiece Beautifies City". Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). 24 April 1931. p. 8. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  5. ^ Port Philip Herald. 17 January 1840. p. 2.
  6. ^ "Treasury on Collins". Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  7. ^ Nancarrow, Kate (19 February 2013). "CBD hotel closes doors, converts to apartments". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Bank of Australasia (former), 394-398 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia". Australian Heritage Database. Retrieved 15 December 2019.