I took this photo in #Melbourne in 2019,
probably with the intent of looking up what it was about. So...
"The 25 blocks making up the Colonial Square sculpture at Melbourne Museum represent most of the ornamentation seen on the former Colonial Mutual Life building, one of the grandest ever built in Melbourne. The blocks give an indication of the scale of the construction and the superb workmanship that went into the stonemasonry."
Built 1890s. Demolished 1960 over "nearly 12 months".
More & quote from https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/16557
Colonial Square, Melbourne Museum
A Grand Building In the late 1880s, fuelled by riches from the Victorian goldfields, the price of land in inner Melbourne skyrocketed. In 1890, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the USA paid £360 000 for a rectangular block of land, measuring 132 by 79 feet, on the NW corner of Collins and Elizabeth Streets.Just over half a century earlier, in June 1937, the same blocks had been bought for ...

