page_title: Swanston Street, Melbourne
section_title: Notable buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Swanston Street, Melbourne / Notable buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Buxton's Rooms, Swanston Street, Melbourne
context_page_description: Swanston Street is a major thoroughfare in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is one of the main streets of the Melbourne central business district and was laid out in 1837 as part of the original Hoddle Grid. The street vertically bisects Melbourne's city centre and is famous as the world's busiest tram corridor, for its heritage buildings and as a shopping strip.
  Swanston Street runs roughly north-south in-between Russell Street to the east and Elizabeth Street to the west. To the south it becomes St Kilda Road after the intersection with Flinders Street, whilst the road's northern end is in the suburb of Carlton at Melbourne Cemetery. This northern section was originally named Madeline Street. The street is named after merchant, banker and politician Charles Swanston.
context_section_description: Many of Melbourne's most noteworthy precincts and prominent buildings face Swanston Street as the city's historic main avenue, including: 
  Flinders Street railway station
  Federation Square
  Young and Jackson Hotel
  Melbourne Town Hall
  Capitol Theatre
  City Square
  Manchester Unity Building
  Curtin House
  QV Village
  State Library of Victoria
  Melbourne Central Shopping Centre
  City Baths
  Both the University of Melbourne and RMIT University also have campus buildings fronting Swanston Street.
caption: Buxton's Rooms on Swanston Street, which were the site of the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition in 1889
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