Exhibition Street, Melbourne
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Exhibition Street Stephen Street Victoria |
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| Exhibition Street looking north from Bourke Street | |
| Coordinates | 37°48′47″S 144°58′16″E / 37.8130411°S 144.97107270000004°ECoordinates: 37°48′47″S 144°58′16″E / 37.8130411°S 144.97107270000004°E |
| Type | Street |
| Opened | 1837 |
| North end | Victoria Street |
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La Trobe Street Lonsdale Street Nicholson Street Bourke Street Collins Street |
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| South end | Flinders Street |
| Suburb(s) | Melbourne CBD |
Exhibition Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. The street is named after the International Exhibition held at the Royal Exhibition Building in 1880, and was previously known as Stephen Street from 1837. The street runs roughly north-south and was laid out as part of the original Hoddle Grid.
Situated in the east of the Melbourne city centre, Exhibition Street is a major thoroughfare for city traffic.
At its southern end, Exhibition Street becomes Batman Avenue after its intersection with Flinders Street and the Batman Avenue Bridge. Batman Avenue links the central business district to the Monash Freeway, and the section immediately south of Flinders Street is also known as the Exhibition Street Extension. At its northern end it becomes Rathdowne Street, which runs along the western edge of the Carlton Gardens, Royal Exhibition Building and Melbourne Museum.
Stephen Street, as Exhibition Street was originally known, was established in April 1837 as one of the eight north-south streets on Robert Hoddle's original survey of Melbourne. Stephen Street was named as a tribute to Sir James Stephen, the Permanent Undersecretary for the British Colonies in London who was at the peak of his power within the Colonial Office at the time of the naming of the streets in the Hoddle Grid.
In 1847, the Eastern Market was opened on the corner of Stephen Street and Bourke Street. It was the second major market in Melbourne, after the Western Market. It was intended to be Melbourne's main fresh food market, but it proved less popular than the Queen Victoria Market, and eventually became closer to an amusement park. It was demolished in 1960.
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