1859-1860 Raphael Alexander. Alexander arrived in Melbourne in 1840 and set up a large wholesale and retail drapery business in Collins Street. He lived at 17 Powlett Street only briefly. His son was born there in 1859. He then moved to Ballarat. He continued to own the property until 1866. He died in Ballarat in 1882.
1861-65 Andrew King of King & Parsons, warehousemen, Collins Street
1866-67 Capt. Joseph Walker
1868 George Middlecoat
1869-70 Mrs. Anderson
1871-72 Albert Miller, son of Henry Miller, owner
1873-75 James H. Graves, J.P.
1876-79 Edward Baines, wholesale ironmonger
1881-83 Mrs. Sarah Harker
1884-91 Robert Reid, artist of Reid Bros. artists of 140 Chapel Street, South Yarra. Nancy Adams says, "Robert Reid was an architect and an interior decorator whose scrolls and arabesques in blue and gold and terra-cotta for walls and ceilings were very much in demand. Amongst other buildings, he did the E.S. & A. Bank House in Collins Street and the Scotch College".....[describing Scotch College] "The friezes beneath the ceiling, painted by Mr. Robert Reid, were in their way very good....".... "Like the Scotch College, Doona had been decorated by Mr. Reid." [Doona in Hopetoun Rd., Malvern, now Toorak, was the home of Henry Bourne Higgins, barrister, MLA, Attorney-General, justice of the High Court.]
c.1938-1956 Jean Campbell, romance novelist. Campbell lived in an apartment here, initially with her mother, Louise. Campbell is possibly best known for her book, Greek Key Pattern (1935), a biographical novel based on the life of Antony John Jereos Lucas, Greek community leader, philanthropist and restaurateur in Melbourne.