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bought the Argus Building for $ 8 million with the intention to redevelop the building to house its legal and business schools as well as a ground-floor shopping precinct. Owing to the high estimated cost of renovating the building, La Trobe University sold the site for $ 15 million in 2010
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for the development of a six-storey purpose-built building to accommodate the numerous workers and massive composing and printing plant deployed in producing high-circulation
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An 1855 map shows St John's church and school at this location. Documents from 1880 and 1905 show an enlarged church and a row of two-storey shops along Elizabeth Street.
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emerged from the building on Saturday 19 January 1957. After the paper's closure, It was announced that the company's other activities would continue, including
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newspapers, as expounded in a special supplement, "Entering the New Home", published on 9 September 1926.
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The Argus Building, designed by Godfrey & Spowers, opened in 1926 on
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newspaper for 30 years (1926–1956). It is classified by the
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After twenty years of financial losses, the last issue of
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and other operations in radio and commercial printing.
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Argus Centre

La Trobe Street
La Trobe
Elizabeth
Melbourne
The Argus
National Trust
Victorian Heritage Register
Melbourne Institute of Technology
The Australasian
letterpress
Your Garden
La Trobe University
Shesh Ghale
Melbourne Institute of Technology
The Argus Building
Heritage at Risk 2012
Archived
Wayback Machine
National Trust of Australia
The Argus building
An Historic Souvenir
The Argus
Trove
Your Last Argus
The Argus
Trove
"Argus site to thrive as new La Trobe campus"
The Age

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