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DONALD SHIRE OFFICES

Other Names

DONALD SHIRE OFFICE (INCLUDING COUNCIL CHAMBER) , COUNCIL CHAMBERS , COUNCIL CHAMBER , BULOKE OFFICES

Location

31 MCCULLOCH STREET DONALD, BULOKE SHIRE

File Number

PL-HE/03/0640

Level

Registered

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November 2022
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3 distant front photo
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1 back
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Donald Offices Extent Diagram
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4 best foyer
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Donald Offices - Aerial 2023
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IMG 1876
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IMG 1881
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IMG 1882
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IMG 1877
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IMG 1878
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IMG 1880
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IMG 1883
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IMG 1898
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IMG 1899
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IMG 1904
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IMG 1916

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The Donald Shire Office, designed in 1911 by Harold Bunnett and Gerald Ryan in a Federation Freestyle under the supervision of the architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear.

How is it significant?

The Donald Shire Office is of architectural significance to the State of Victoria. It satisfies the following criterion for inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Register:

Criterion D
Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural places and objects

Why is it significant?

The Donald Shire Offices are architecturally significant as a fine example of a Federation Free style building. It has stylised Dutch gables, arched apexes crowned by orbs and corner towers surmounted by cupolas and arcaded loggias. Art Nouveau features include stained glassed entrance doors featuring ornamental wreaths into which is set a ‘DS’ for Donald Shire. The Council Chamber is particularly fine and includes a barrel-vaulted ceiling of pressed plaster and elaborate plastered cornices and a plastered curvilinear Art Nouveau pediment above a bas-relief of the Shire of Donald crest. [Criterion D]

Group

Government and Administration