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Former P.S. Carey Motors (Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies)

Other Name

P.S. Carey Motors. Simon's Garage.

Location

105 - 105A Main Street Main Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft

Statement of Significance

A two-storey brick Edwardian building which was the first known purpose-built motor garage in country Victoria, the second in the State and the earliest in Bacchus Marsh and remained a garage from 1913 until 1980. From 1938, its first floor apartment was the childhood home of Peter Carey, the internationally renowned Booker Prize-winning novelist.

It has historical significance regionally as the pioneering building of this type and represents a rare representative embodiment of the motoring world of over eighty years ago . It is also historically significant for its association with an important and influential person, in Peter Carey.

Finally, it is architecturally significant as an example of a building type, a very early motor garage, although altered.

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