CAREY BAPTIST GRAMMAR SCHOOL
9 Era Court DONVALE, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
Carey Baptist Grammar School Donvale Campus is a purpose-built alternative secondary school of local historical significance and architectural interest, built in about 1971-72 by the Educational Reform Association as Australia's first alternative secondary school. It was probably the most ambitious of several such schools in Victoria.
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CAREY BAPTIST GRAMMAR SCHOOL - Physical Description 1
A group of skillion-roofed, concrete block buildings, which step down the hillside. Walls are now painted light green, with stained sawn timbers. The structure is mild steel parallel curved? Trusses and laminated beams on telegraph poles, supporting steel deck roofs. The Library is a steeply pitched octagon, with a central skylight. The caretaker's residence is a log cabin. The complex is set in remnant bushland on a steep site, within a basin of hills.
Other purpose-built alternative schools in Melbourne include : "Koornong School", Warrandyte North (c1940, now derelict?), Preshil The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School, 395 Barkers Road, Hawthron, Kevin Borland Architect (c1960-c1975); Melbourne Steiner School, 213 Wonga Road (cnr. Warranwood Road), Warranwood (c1985-90) and Montessori Schools (an early education centre adjoins). Warrandyte Kindergarten, John Hipwell (1957) is also comparable. Doncaster Campus, Box Hill College of TAFE, Deep Creek Drive, Doncaster East is later and broadly comparable inf orm, if not quite in function.
CAREY BAPTIST GRAMMAR SCHOOL - Physical Conditions
Condition Excellent
CAREY BAPTIST GRAMMAR SCHOOL - Integrity
Integrity Intact
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading: LocalManningham - Doncaster & Templestowe Heritage Study Additional Sites Recommendations
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1993
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