the grid 10-19

Block 11 First exhibition building [1854-1866]
-construction of Melbourne’s first Exhibition Building, on the corner of William and Little Lonsdale Streets, commenced in August, 1854. -This predominantly glass building was intended as a temporary structure and was assembled with much haste in the shadows of the exhibition opening.
-The building’s initial grandeur faded. Built hastily, and always considered a temporary events space, the years had not been kind. In 1866 a new exhibition hall was built behind Melbourne Public Library’s Queens Hall
SOURCE
https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/melbournes-first-exhibition-building/
also check out for more detail
https://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/interexhib/exhibitionbuildings#:~:text=1854%20and%201861,Thomas%20and%20Samuel%20Henden%20Merrett.

The Mint

ST FRANCIS CHURCH BLOCK 13
One of Melbourne’s earliest extant buildings and certainly Elizabeth
Street’s earliest surviving building is St Francis Catholic Church on the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale
Streets. Building of the church commenced in 1841 and since its construction it was known as the
Mother Catholic Church of Victoria. It was designed by architect Samuel Jackson, a member of
Fawkner’s first 1835 expeditionary party.
-SOURCE p8 Elizabeth Street
Historical Character Study, Green Heritage Compliance and Research pdf

Block 14 MELBOURNE HOSPITAL current QV site
While Aboriginal people could be admitted to hospital, they were often refused visitors and treated poorly, as in the case of William Barak, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung head (ngurungaeta), and his son David.
David was admitted to hospital in 1881; his father was refused entry to see or visit his son. When David died a short time later, his body was never returned to his family. David was 10 years old. source https://aboriginal-map.melbourne.vic.gov.au/114

Block 16

ODDFELLOWS HOTEL . . 33 Little Lonsdale Street
BLACK EAGLE HOTEL …44 Lonsdale Street

These two buildings, both built in 1849, sit on parallel streets and are all that remain of one of Melbourne’s most notorious slum areas; a district known for a hundred years as ‘Little Lon.’ Little Lon’s boundary was marked by four main roads; La Trobe, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring, and within this boundary lay a rabbit warren of laneways and sidestreets, each full of run down houses, brothels, small factories and taverns.
Source https://marvmelb.blogspot.com/2012/11/melbournes-oldest-buildings.html
also – the fact that the two Mauds had fight in black eagle lane (melb crime historical tours)

TANKARD’S TEMPERANCE HOTEL BLOCK 19
John Tankard operated Melbourne’s first Temperance Hotel on the south side of Lonsdale Street, between Queen and William streets.

SOURCE ‘HOTELS’ DAVID DUNSTAN https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00727b.htm

source for pic unknown