The electronic shop where my bollard battery wires were soldered was within The Argus building. What is The Argus, you may ask. Well, The Argus operated out of this very handsome building, purpose built in 1926.
In the late 90s or earlier 2000s it was abandoned, although obviously still owned. That is when my nephew and a couple of mates 'investigated' the building. One night they reached the top and took photos and perhaps put them out on whatever social media was around then.
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The Argus was a Melbourne morning newspaper, first published in 1846 and closed in 1957. It's main competitor was the very conservative The Age. The Argus was less conservative and became quite liberal at some point in its life. You can read more about The Argus at Wikipedia.
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In 2004 La Trobe University bought the Argus Building for $8 million with the intention to redevelop the building to house its legal and business schools as well as a ground-floor shopping precinct.[6] Owing to the high estimated cost of renovating the building, La Trobe University sold the site for $15 million in 2010 to Shesh Ghale, owner of the Melbourne Institute of Technology, who converted the site into its Melbourne campus which re-opened in October 2016.
All links in this post were my work. While I was a little impressed by the Blogger's linking feature, you can't single click to remove the links. You have to do so link by link yourself.
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Interesting. I haven't been subjected to the linking feature yet . . .
ReplyDeleteIt would be a shame to have lost such a fine building, despite the newspaper's demise. I hope it can be conserved for the future.
ReplyDeleteI love how buildings carry stories through time, from newspapers to education, and now even soldering adventures. It’s wonderful to see The Argus given a new life. I just shared a new post too and would be delighted if you stopped by to take a look.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I'd like to see your nephew's photos of the building from 25 years ago. Do you have access to them?
ReplyDeleteSteve, I've spent 15 minutes looking in various places for the photos, but I can't find them. I can't remember how I saw them.
DeleteWhat interesting history! Be well, my dear.
ReplyDeleteThe Argus was a fine Melbourne morning newspaper, first published in 1846 and closed in 1957. My parents had it delivered every morning.
ReplyDeleteIt's good that this fine-looking building wasn't abandoned for long.
ReplyDeleteI am always sad reading of the demise of newspapers, so many now and so much vital news delegated to usually biased on line mouthpieces.
ReplyDeleteLovely building.
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The loss of local newspapers worries me the most, WWW.
DeleteOld building and stories is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of The Argus and at first thought you meant a Hotel but a newspaper it was and I am glad that lovely building is still being used and useful without being torn down and replaced by a modern monstrosity.
ReplyDeleteI agree with River, It is good the building has been repurposed and still has a life.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous building and saved after being empty.
ReplyDeleteThe links are good for blogger, Andrew.
Interesting how properties change hands and evolve.
ReplyDeleteA nice old building.
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