Flagstaff Views is a building of forty apartments, built in 1996 on the former site of the Tattersalls headquarters in West Melbourne, Victoria.
Note that the original name for these apartments was Flagstaff Place, a name and logo which still appears on the glass panels at the four entrances on Dudley St – see the photograph below.
In November 2017 the Committee of Management, in planning for this website, discovered that Central Equity had registered ‘Flagstaff Place Apartments’ as a business name for their new building at 53 Batman St, West Melbourne – built in 2013, i.e. seventeen years after our building. Central Equity have also registered the domain names flagstaffplaceapartments.com, flagstaffplace.com and flagstaffplace.com.au – all of which resolve onto http://flagstaffplaceapartment
To avoid an expensive legal dispute, the Committee decided to register a new business name Flagstaff Views and the domain name flagstaffviews.com.au for our apartment building. Given that all our apartments have direct views onto Flagstaff Gardens, the new name seems a much better and more distinctive name for our building anyway.
RESIDENTS AND VISITORS ARE INVITED TO RESEARCH THE PRIOR HISTORY OF THE PROPERTIES NOW REGISTERED AS 18-30 DUDLEY ST (AND 313-333 WILLIAM ST) WEST MELBOURNE, AND SEND THE RESULTS OF YOUR INVESTIGATIONS BY EMAIL HERE.
THE STATE LIBRARY PROVIDES ONLINE ACCESS TO THE SANDS & McDOUGALL STREET DIRECTORIES FROM 1857 TO 1974 HERE.
Note: If you are interested in the history of West Melbourne and North Melbourne, join the local historical society: the Hotham History Project. Hotham was the original name for the municipality covering the areas of North and West Melbourne.
Some historical artefacts
The initial publicity for the apartments, in August 1996:
