The Queen Victoria Building is a heritage-listed late-19th-century building located at 429–481 George Street in the Sydney central business district, in the Australian state of New South Wales. Design
Queen Victoria Building, as viewed from George Street
Wood-engraving of former Sydney Markets (1850)
The Grand Central Dome is accompanied by 20 other smaller domes
The QVB's George Street facade
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecess
Queen Victoria Building
…centre of trade will be established here." In 1897, the council resolved to "dedicate the new market buildings", then still under construction, to Queen Victoria and to name them The Queen Victoria Market Buildings in commemoration of her Diamond Jubilee: "...in order to mark in a fitting manner the unprecedented…
Victoria as a child with her mother, by William Beechey
Portrait by Stephen Poyntz Denning, 1823
Portrait with her spaniel Dash by George Hayter, 1833