Chapel Street
Mile-long shopping strip of Victorian and Edwardian buildings turned fashion boutiques, bars, and nightlife.
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This guide to Chapel Street in Melbourne starts with a single unnamed wooden chapel on a dirt track around 1850, decades before the boutiques and nightlife that now line the strip. It follows the settler who built the street's first house, the ferry crossing that preceded any bridge over the Yarra, and the small church whose name outlived its own walls after it was pulled down. The chapel itself closed in 1859 and was demolished around 1883; nothing of it remains today.
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