Residential, Apartment & House Cleaning Services in Collingwood

Colling wood is a suburb in Melbourne known for its historical building, with many nineteenth-century dwellings, shops, and factories still in use. The suburb is an inner-city suburb located about three kilometers north-east of the Melbourne’s central business district. Collingwood is a part of the city of Yarra local government area, the suburb is one of the oldest suburbs in Melbourne and it is bordered by Smith street, Alexandra Parade, Hoddle Street and Victoria Parade.

The suburb got its name from Baron Collingwood or maybe it was just named after a hotel named after him. In the early days of the suburb, big commercial buildings often exist together with small dwellings most of these places were occupied by working-class families and the mixture of the industrial area and residential area has continued till present days. In more recent times, the older warehouses and factories have been converted into fashionable apartments and there has been modern townhouse infill and medium density apartments.

Collingwood technical school was established in the 20th century as a school for trades and technical training but it was unfortunately closed down later. The property which previously belonged to Foy & Gibson was repurposed for the Academy of Design Australia which is located in Collingwood. The Academy offers the “Bachelor of Design Arts” a degree unique to the state of Victoria. The suburb has a very great spot for eating out and good transportation to get to the restaurants.