Brunswick Memorial Hall

Child Places

• 12858 Brunswick Memorial Gates

Statement of Significance

• The place has historic value for its association with the development of the district in the 1930s.
• The place has social value for the community as many events have been held at the hall, attended by many local individuals and families since 1936.
• The place has aesthetic value as a restrained example of the inter-war free classical style in good condition

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 Street which houses the projection room is crowned with a complex modelled and stepped parapet featuring the date of the building’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 pilasters and linking panels with horizontally grooved detail and simplified classical mouldings to base and cor nice with stepped parapet bearing the name. The entrance porch to one side and which contains a ticket-sales office has a memorial plaque to the fallen soldiers of the 1914-18. There is also a commemorative list of the fallen in World War 2 in the main hall.

History

The Brunswick Memorial Hall was constructed by the prominent architectural firm Cameron Powell & Chisholm in 1936. It was constructed at a cost of £6500 on the site of the previous hall which had been standing there since 1894. A portion of the original hall including the main entrance was retained. The builder was Mr. Joseph Johnson of Harvey. The building was opened on the 15 July 1936 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.

Integrity/Authenticity

High/ High

Condition

Good

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