PICTURE : BALLARAT TOWN HALL EARLY 1900's A sense of history is evident in Ballarat's streetscapes and architecture. Lydiard Street and Sturt Street are renowned for their Victorian splendour. Craig's Royal Hotel, The Mining Exchange and Her Majesty's Theatre are just some of the buildings worth visiting. In Eureka Street, the typical wooden miner's cottages have their own special charm. "A Selection of Significant Ballarat Buildings" A detailed list of general buildings, warehouses, residences, hotels, schools, pavilions, and hospitals. Those with high significance are indicated. "Craig's Hotel and its Origins" Called "the pride of Ballarat" by Mark Twain. The present Lydiard Street building was opened in 1862, and the renowned poet Adam Lindsay Gordon ran the livery stables in 1867-68. "The Titanic Link" The Titanic Memorial Bandstand, erected in Sturt Street in 1915, is one of only two memorials in Australia to the bandsmen who went down with the ill-fated liner. A silhouette of the ship forms part of the weather vane on top. "Weeping Bailey and his Mansion" The story of the wealthy William Bailey and the magnificent, two-storey towered residence he built in 1883 that now forms part of St.John God of God Hospital.