Howey Place

Also known as Howey Court, Howey Lane, Howies Court, Howies Lane, and Howies Place.

Covered over as arcade, late 1800s/early 1900s.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 279-281 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry Howey, pastoralist & landowner (Crown Grantee 11 June 1837).

Location is approximate.

For more information, see: Bate, W., Broome, R., Davis, N., May, A. J., & Stitt, H. (2024). The story of Melbourne’s lanes: Essential but unplanned (pp. 11, 79, 83). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"That complex was a classic case, quite literally, of name-dropping. After the City Property Company, thinking perhaps of the success of Royal Arcade, gained permission in the early 1890s to roof over privately owned Carpenters Lane, it dispensed with that down-market name and latched onto the prestige of The Block, which was especially high at that corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets. About the same time, further east on Collins Street, Howies Lane [today, Howey Place] was bridged as the first step towards the complete covering that made it Howey Court. Bridges appeared at that time over six or seven other lanes, but only in the central shopping area was this likely to lead to a complete roof, sometimes attractively skylit." p. 79.