St. Joseph's College

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

St Joseph's College at Newtown is an interesting complex of buildings of diverse style and construction built over a period 1957-1903, originally a Catholic orphanage and school since 1935 as St Josephs College. The 1857 Italiante buildings, extended, is a distinguished early work of architects Shaw and Dowden and marred only by construction of a ponderous double store balconied cloister in recent times. St Augustine's orphanage is an important Geelong institution which continues operations at Highton

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register

REFERENCES

Saint Augustine's Geelong 1857-1957, Henwood & Dancy Pty Ltd, Printers, Geelong 1957

National Trust of Australia (Victoria) File No 3505,

Survey and Identification Data Sheet, PF Alsop, April 1974. Includes details of tenders, stages of construction, church/school history and references.

Geelong Advertiser - 30th January, 1857, 10th February, 1857, 16th April, 1857, 23rd October,1857, 14th December, 1857, 19th February, 1859, 23rd January, 1861, 7th February, 1861, 25th April, 1865. 13th February, 1866, 24th July, 1869, 24th July, 1969. 31st January, 1870, 13th August, 1885.

Smith Jamed (Ed) - The Cyclopedia of Victoria, 6 Volumes, The Cyclopedia Co, Melbourne, 190 Vol 2, p 434.

Group

Education

Category

School - Private