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Balcony and mural in the main dining hall, Café Australia, Melbourne

Photographer / artist:

not recorded

Copyright:

all rights reserved

Source:

National Library of Australia, Eric Milton Nicholls Collection, PIC/9929/682, Album 1092/3

Architects:

Walter Burley Griffin Marion Mahony Griffin

Subject Date:

Opened 8 November 1916

Image Date:

1916-1919

Type:

b&w photograph

Notes:

Designed by the Griffins, richly detailed and ornamented, Café Australia has been described as “undoubtedly the most handsome café in Australia”. Mural by Bertha Merfield (Turnbull and Navaretti p.138). Demolished in 1938.