the popular claim that there was not a street in melbourne's cbd where a barnet building could not be found was first coined by isaac selby and reiterated in barnet's obituary in the argus in 1931. the obituary relates that when challenged with the street "carpentaria place" (a short street opposite the windsor hotel, now pedestrianised), the reply was "you are wrong. you have overlooked the cabman's shelter." barnet had designed this in 1898, and it still exists, though relocated to yarra park along brunton avenue some time in the interwar years.