Balcony and mural in the main dining hall, Café Australia, Melbourne
Photographer / artist:
not recordedCopyright:
all rights reservedSource:
National Library of Australia, Eric Milton Nicholls Collection, PIC/9929/682, Album 1092/3Architects:
Walter Burley Griffin Marion Mahony GriffinSubject Date:
Opened 8 November 1916Image Date:
1916-1919Type:
b&w photographNotes:
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.