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There was a trio of houses around this corner in the 1850s, apparently a terrace pair and an isolated small cottage further north, sometimes given the address Creswick Street and sometimes Denham Street. The trio seems to have been owned, although not occupied, by politician Charles Gavan Duffy by 1856/7, later Henry Rushworth. In early 1873 the pair was occupied by Nicholas Maine and George Gordon McCrae. The latter moved to his own new house in Muir Street, now demolished. The Maines and the McCraes were related and apparently a frequent resident was Georgiana McCrae (1840-1890), the famous diarist/artist, recorder of Melbourne life in the 1840s, who died here in 1890. A building is now on its front garden and the other original buildings in Denham Street have been replaced by flats.

George Gordon McCrae, Georgiana McCrae (Images: Pictures Collection, State Library of Victoria)