Fish Creek Memorial Hall
13 Falls Road FISH CREEK, South Gippsland Shire
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The Fish Creek Memorial Hall, designed by TE Molloy and constructed by Cunningham and Smith in 1930 at 13 Falls Road, Fish Creek.
Why is it Significant?
The Fish Creek Memorial Hall is of local aesthetic and social significance to South Gippsland Shire.
Aesthetically, it is a key public building that contributes to the historic character of Fish Creek and is also of interest as a substantially intact example of the work of the important local architect TE Molloy that may be directly compared with the more superior Mirboo-on-Tarwin Public Hall. (AHC criteria - E.1, F.1 and H.1) Socially, it demonstrates the importance of public halls to the development of small rural towns. (AHC criterion - G.1)
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Fish Creek Memorial Hall - Physical Description 1
The Fish Creek Memorial Hall is another example of a public hall design by local architect, TE Molloy, and is a simple gabled brick hall with a cinema projection box as a smaller projecting gable over the entry portico, which is supported on concrete "Doric" columns standing on pedestals at either side. The false gable end on the portico is a later addition, covering the original masonry parapet. This portico is flanked by matching hipped side rooms with paired sets of multi-pane metal windows.
The hall has a steel roof frame with a vaulted ceiling, presumably carried on the bottom chords of the trusses. It has an elevated rear stage and side wings with a rear supper room. The undercroft and base of the main structure is in reinforced concrete.
The nature of the design, apart from the portico columns is very utilitarian, but the massing is reminiscent of that of the Mirboo-on-Tarwin Public Hall by the same architect, which was built in the previous year. (see separate citation.)Fish Creek Memorial Hall - Historical Australian Themes
Thematic Context
Government and Community Institutions
Sub-Themes
Schools, Churches, Public Halls, Cemeteries & Hospitals
Fish Creek Memorial Hall - Physical Description 2
Designer
TE Molloy
Contractor
Cunningham & Smith
Style
Interwar Public Hall
Veterans Description for Public
Fish Creek Memorial Hall - Veterans Description for Public
The Fish Creek Memorial Hall was opened in April 1930. The architect was TE Molloy and the contractor was Cunningham & Smith of Korumburra. It replaced the original Fish Creek Public Hall that had been constructed in 1900 and was situated opposite this site, on land where the Butter Factory was constructed in 1934.
The building is a simple gabled brick hall with a cinema projection box as a smaller projecting gable over the entry portico, which is supported on concrete "Doric" columns standing on pedestals at either side. The false gable end on the portico is a later addition, covering the original masonry parapet. This portico is flanked by matching hipped side rooms with paired sets of multi-pane metal windows.Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
Grading:
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