Newtown and Chilwell Free Kindergarten

The Newtown and Chilwell Free Kindergarten has regional historical significance as a good example of municipal enterprise and as one of the many free kindergarten centres established throughout the state in the early decades of the present century, offering facilities regarded at the time as among the best in Victoria. It was used for its original purposes for more than 64 years, demonstrating Newtown I s role as part of the metropolis, and from 1925 providing specialised functions in the Geelong area. Its honorary architect was I. G. Anderson. When opened it was regarded by the President of the Free Kindergarten Union as "tone of the best" of the fourteen free kindergarten buildings then in Victoria.

Group

Community Facilities

Category

Childcare facility