Springvale Football Ground Memorial Grandstand and Trees

Location

Newcomen Road SPRINGVALE, Greater Dandenong City

File Number

Original Hermes No: 45617

Level

-

Statement of Significance

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The Springvale Football Ground Memorial Grandstand & trees are significant to the City of Greater Dandenong:

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As an externally well preserved example of an uncommon building type erected in the city during the inter-war period (Criteria B.2, D.2)

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For its close association with the Springvale branch of the Returned Soldiers & Sailors Imperial League of Australia,who financed the grandstand, and RobertWoodcock, the Springvale Shire who purchased the land and the shire engineer who aided in the grandstand's design and construction. (Criteria H. 1)

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As perhaps the city's largest memorial for those who fought in the FirstWar and, by the size and the scope of the project, an indication of the status given to their memory within the community. (Criteria B.2, G. 1)

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for the long Monterey cypress row which creates a period setting for the grandstand as well as being a striking landscape element in the surrounding landscape

Group

Monuments and Memorials

Category

Memorial