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BABY HEALTH CENTRE
Location2 MERLYN STREET, COBURG NORTH, MORELAND CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later additions and alterations to the place are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant? The Merlynston Baby Health Centre is architecturally significant as a representative example of a small baby health centre, which illustrates the simple domestic scale and design that is typical of these buildings and reflects the philosophy of the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association. (Criterion D)
The Merlynston Baby Health centre, designed by T.D. Gibson and constructed in 1955, situated within the DS Bain Reserve at 2 Merlyn Street, Merlynston. The form, external materials, and detailing all contribute to the significance of the place.
The Merlynston Baby Health Centre is of local historic, social and architectural significance to Moreland City.
The Merlynston Baby Health Centre is historically significant as an example of a place associated with an important program that encouraged the provision of modern and up-date maternal and child health facilities, particularly throughout the growing suburbs on the fringe of metropolitan Melbourne, after World War Two. It is socially and historically significant as a place that symbolises the determined efforts of the Council and local community to establish a place that would improve the health and welfare of women and children. The building has a strong and continuing sense of attachment for the local community (Criteria A & G)
Group
Community Facilities
Category
Childcare facility