page_title: Exhibition Street, Melbourne
section_title: Founding as Stephen Street
hierarchical_section_title: Exhibition Street, Melbourne / History / Founding as Stephen Street
caption_attribution_description: Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Royal Exhibition Building
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