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[[File:The Yarra River Birrarung meandering past South Yarra. September 2023.jpg|thumb|The Yarra River Birrarung meandering past South Yarra. September 2023.]]
[[Hoddle Highway|Punt Road]] divides the suburb between Stonnington (east) and Melbourne (west). The main shopping region of South Yarra runs along Toorak Road and [[Chapel Street, Melbourne|Chapel Street]]. Trade along these two arteries are focused on trendy and upmarket shopping, restaurants, nightclubs and [[coffee culture|cafe culture]]. The area of South Yarra centred along Commercial Road was for several decades one of Melbourne's [[gay village]]s.
South Yarra is also home to some of Melbourne's most prestigious residential addresses. Residential land price records (per square metre) have been set by properties in Domain Road, Walsh Street and Fairlie Court.
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[[File:Prahran Market early morning.jpg|thumb|right|Prahran Market on Commercial Road]]
South Yarra has several local attractions. Perhaps the best known is [[Chapel Street, Melbourne|Chapel Street]]. The South Yarra section of the famous street is the most fashionable and upmarket end. A major landmark is [[The Jam Factory]], old factories converted into an upmarket shopping centre and cinemas. ''The Como Centre'' is a large shopping centre on the corner of Toorak and Chapel Streets, which combines with an office building, South Yarra's tallest, which houses the headquarters for [[ATV-10]] and Global Television's TV production facilities.<ref>[http://www.globaltv.com.au/index.php Homepage] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416055650/http://www.globaltv.com.au/index.php |date=16 April 2009 }} Global Television.com</ref>
The [[Prahran Market]], located in South Yarra, is one of Melbourne's most popular and historic fresh produce markets.
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Other grand South Yarra houses include Wavendon, formerly home to film director [[Fred Schepisi]], in Walsh Street, and Raveloe, in Domain Road, former home of Dame Mabel Brookes. Domain Road, with its proximity to the [[Kings Domain]], the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne|Royal Botanic Gardens]] and [[Government House, Melbourne|Government House]], is at the centre of the exclusive Domain precinct. Fairbairn, built for the pastoralist Fairbairn family and the next-door property, Poolman House, on the corner of Domain Road and Punt Road, are among the largest mansions in South Yarra. Poolman House, originally known as Ernest Poolman House, was built by stock and station agent Richard Goldsbrough in 1865 and extended in 1880. Poolman House was owned by the Poolman family from 1921, who entertained grandly in the ballroom that they added in 1928. In 1956 Mrs Audrey Poolman donated the house to Christ Church South Yarra, who used it as a nursing home for genteel old Anglican ladies for thirty years, until in 1986, the house was bought from the Church of England by international interior designer the late John Coote, who restored Poolman House at vast expense. Snainton at 80 Clowes Street, South Yarra, is a notable example of grand Federation architecture, as is its sister property at 72 Clowes Street, South Yarra, which sold for a notable $8.8 million in 2008. Caroline House, a Victorian mansion with a tower at 72 Caroline Street, changed hands in 2014 by way of off market transaction for $12.5 million. Caroline House was formerly home to Australia's foremost art dealer Joseph Brown who between 1966 and 1999 gifted 154 works of art valued at $30 million to the National Gallery of Victoria.
South Yarra also has some notable clusters of terrace house. Park Street features rows of Melbourne's best preserved, richly decorated and highly sought-after [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[terrace house]]s, some as high as three and four storeys. Adjacent
An important area for Art Deco enthusiasts can be found along Alexandra Avenue, Lawson Grove and Darling Street. This area was subject to renewal in the 1920s and 1930s by entrepreneurial builder Mr Lawson, as a kind of medium-density village enclave development. As a result, a large number of Art Deco apartment buildings were built in a [[Hollywood Hills]] style overlooking the [[Yarra River]]. One of the most famous of these apartment buildings, "Beverly Hills", on Darling Street, retains the original 1930s grotto-style swimming pool for the use of all residents. Nearby in Lawson Grove the Lawson Grove Café can be found on the ground floor of a 1930s Art Deco building. It was originally intended to run as a convenience store for local residents, but is now a chic café for those in the know.
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