Brunswick Memorial Hall

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Statement of Significance

demonstration of a way of life, custom, process or function:
The Brunswick Memorial Hall has been used by generations of Brunswick residents
since it was built in 1936.
historical significance of development of cultural phases; association with important figures:
The Hall was built as a memorial to local residents who were killed in the First World
War.
It is one of a group of local government buildings designed by the architectural firm
Powell, Cameron and Chisholm in the Harvey Shire.
Environmental importance; townscape or landscape value; high degree of unity of setting:
The Memorial Hall adds significant townscape value Brunswick in its situation on
Ommanney Road and the South Western Highway.

social signifance:
The Memorial Hall has great social significance to the residents of Brunswick.

Physical Description

Large imposing building of brick construction containing three public halls with ancillary rooms and communal facilities. The natural brick frontages to the two streets have a cement rendered band running around the building at lintel level on each of the two stories. The upper level facing Ridley St which houses the projection room is corowned with a complex modelled and stepped parapet featuring the daye of the builing's dedication with the name of the Hall on the spandrel between the main door and the steel framed window above. The interior of the main hall features a well arranged stage equipped to mount theatrical productions and has Art Deco detailing and decorative panelling to walls and ceiling.
The Memorial Hall section facing Ommanney Road is built in an earlier Inter War stripped classical style featuring cement rendered pilasts and linking panels with orizontally grooved detail and simplified classical mouldings to base and cornice with stepped parapet bearing the name. The netrance porch to one side and which contains a ticket-sales office has a memorial plaque to the fallen soldiers of the 1914 - 18 war. There is also a commerarive list of soldiers killed during World War II in the main hall.

History

Assessment 1997
Construction 1936
Builder J.Joseph

The Brunswick and Memorial Hall was constructed by the prominent architectural firm
Cameron Powell and Chisholm in 1936. It was built at a cost of 6,500 pounds on the
site of the previous hall which had been standing there since 1894. The builder was Mr.
Joseph Jotinson of Harvey. The building was opened on the 15th of July by Sir James
MitchelL The hall was used by the local residents for balls, weddings and functions
and picture shows were held there once a week.

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