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Caramut Memorial Hall

Other Name Former Mechanics Institute [?] Location Brown and Gibson Streets, Caramut VIC 3274 File Number Original Hermes No: 121855 Level -

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The RSL Hall in Brown Street, Caramut, is a simple, single-storey timber building with a hipped corrugated iron roof, which looks to have been erected in the c.1920s or 1930s.

How is it significant?
The RSL Hall in Brown Street, Caramut, is of historical and social significance to Moyne Shire.

Why is it significant?
The RSL Hall in Brown Street, Caramut, is of local historical significance to Moyne Shire as a local war memorial hall erected in the wake of World War I. The avenue of honour planted in Brown Street adds to this significance.

The RSL Hall, in Brown Street, Caramut, is of local social significance to Moyne Shire as a war memorial, and hence as a site of pilgrimage and remembrance. It is, in addition, an important community building.