Warracknabeal Town Hall
36 Scott Street,, WARRACKNABEAL VIC 3393 - Property No B7015
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Statement of Significance
The Warracknabeal Town hall, designed by noted early modernist architects Seabrook Fildes, and completed in 1940, is of State architectural and social significance.
Architecturally, the Town Hall is a stylish early modern design, employing simple boldly modelled cream brick volumes, cut by deep-set vertical slot windows, accentuated by a slim clocktower on the corner, contrasted with a vertical section of dark tiles. The design is clearly inspired by the early Dutch modernists such as Willem Dudock, particularly his Hilversum Town Hall, and is comparable to other similarly inspired works in Victoria, notably the MacRobetson Girls High School, 1934 by the same architects, and the Heidelberg Town Hall, opened 1937, by Leith, Bartlett, Peck & Kemter.
Socially, the town Hall is important as the focus of the town community for most of its life. It was built and operated as the major cinema in town form the opening of the hall in 1940.
Classified: 07/08/2000
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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