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Savoy Plaza Hotel: 630 Little Collins Street and 122-133 Spencer Street, Melbourne
Savoy Plaza Hotel: 630 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Looking north east from western side of Swanston Street.
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Hotel Alexander (or Alexander’s Hotel) was opened in early 1927 and run by Alexander Hotel Pty Ltd. At the time it was billed as “Melbourne’s most modern hotel” a fully licenced hotel with 200 rooms each with their own bathroom. At eleven storeys it was one of Melbourne and Australia’s tallest and most prominent hotels at the time taking advantage of its proximity to Spencer Street railway station. 1 A 20th Century American style hotel it claimed to be one the first in Australia to offer modern air-conditioning.
Chevron Hotel: 539 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Chevron Hotel: 539 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
The Chevron was built in to the design of Leslie M Perrott in 1934 with construction of the 200 room hotel with unusual tower by E.A. Watts taking 18 weeks.
The rooms featured ensuite bathrooms and garages for guests’ cars.
At its peak, it was a ritzy nightclub which hosted the likes of Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Winifred Atwell and Frank Sinatra.
The nightclub finally closed in 2001.
Posted in City of Melbourne, Low-rise (1-5 storeys), Melbourne 3004 | 
Tags: 1930s, 1934, 20th century, 4 storey, apartment building, decorative tower, hotel, interwar, leslie m perrott, palazzo, st kilda road | 
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Ansett House: 501 Swanston Street, Melbourne