Melbourne as "Melburnians". The city was founded on 30 August 1835, in what was the British colony of New South Wales, by free settlers from the colony of Van Diemen’s Land. It was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837 and named in honour of the British Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847, after which it became the capital of the new colony of Victoria in 1851. In the wake of the 1850s Victorian gold rush, the city entered the "Marvellous Melbourne" boom period, transforming into one of the most
William F. Lamb also designed 521 Fifth Avenue, the Forbes Magazine Building, the Standard Oil Building, the Bankers Trust Building and worked with H. Craig Severance on 40 Wall Street in New York. He also designed the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina He died in New York on September 8, 1952. William F. Lamb William Frederick Lamb (November 21, 1893 – September 8, 1952), was an American architect, chiefly known as one of the principal designers of the Empire State Building. Lamb joined the New York architecture firm Carrère & Hastings in 1911, shortly after returning from Paris, where he earned a