b'151145 MELBOURNE CLUBAn antique Australian blackwood hall seat settle, Melbourne, Victorian origin, 19th century,110cm high, 145cm long, 55cm deep[See also Lot 147]The Melbourne Club is a private social club established atAt the rear of the Club building is a private courtyard garden, a gathering of 23 gentlemen on Saturday, 17 Decembera rarity in Melbournes central business district. It is also 1838, and initially used John Pascoe Fawkners hotel on thelisted on the Victorian Heritage Register, and is the location corner of Collins Street and Market Street. The Club movedof garden parties and private functions. The garden contains to new purpose-built premises at the eastern end of Collinsthe largest plane tree in Victoria, according to the National Street, designed by Leonard Terry in Renaissance RevivalTrusts Register of Significant Trees.style, in 1859. A dining room wing with a bay window wasDespite (or perhaps because) the Melbourne Club continuing added at the western end in 1885, designed by Terry &to insist on a male only membership policy, it has Oakden. It includes, among other rooms, a library, mainattracted many high profile members, including Governors dining room, private dining room, breakfast room, billiardGeneral Sir Isaac Isaacs and Sir Ninian Stephen, Chief rooms, lawn room and bedrooms. The building is listed onJustice Sir Owen Dixon, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and the Victorian Heritage Register. artists, Arthur Streeton, William Dargie and Daryl Lindsay.$1,5002,500145'