War Veteran's Home including interior
1 Crimea Street, DRYSDALE VIC 3222 - Property No 248672
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Statement of Significance
B Listing - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The War Veterans home was erected in 1891 to designs by Major Albert Purchas, Honorary architect to the United Services Homes Institution, as a welfare establishment for impoverished war veterans of the British Army and Navy. The chaste brick structure is an unusual, eclectic design by prolific Melbourne architect Albert Purchas and most notable for the pointed window heads and entrance doorways and squat decorated tower. The institution was modeled on the Chelsea and Greenwich hospitals in London similarly serving Crimea War Veterans.
RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Geelong Regional Commission Register.
REFERENCES
"Eighteenth Report of the United Services Home", Drysdale 1909.
Brownhill, W. R.. - History of Geelong and Corio bay, Wilke and Co Ltd, Melbourne 1955 - pp 634-4
Henry, J. A. and Collie N. J. (Compliers), Early Geelong - Do You Remember, Henry Thacker Pty Ltd, Geelong Reprinted 1971, Vol 1 AND 2. P 5
Hutchinson, M. L. "Tourists guide to Geelong and Southern Watering Places". Melbourne 1892. pp 55-56.
Smith, J (Ed), Cyclopedia of Victoria, Niven and Co, Melbourne, 1905 Vol 1. p 55.
National trust of Australia (Victoria) - File No 2498.
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Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Bellarine Heritage Study
Author: Huddle, Howe, Lewis and Francis
Year: 1996
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DRYSDALE STOCK POUNDVictorian Heritage Inventory
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ResidenceGreater Geelong City
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ResidenceGreater Geelong City
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