Monsanto Building 2026

Written By Campbell Mattinson

The old Monsanto building at 454-460 Somerville Road in Brooklyn, Melbourne, in 2026, in black and white. PHOTO: Campbell Mattinson.

I’ve written about the deserted building at 454-460 Somerville Road in Brooklyn, Melbourne, in the past, on my other site, and I’m currently creating a new and expanded 2026 collection of images of this building. But this building – which used to be the Australian manufacturing base* of Monsanto – sure looks mighty in monochrome. The building was built in 1941, by the American chemical giant. The original building is heritage ‘protected’, as is the cafeteria building behind it, but most of the other buildings on the site were demolished around 2009.

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  • The front building here was mostly administration, but the main administration headquarters of Monsanto back in its prime days was in the Melbourne CBD.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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