Gordon Technical College original building and extensions 1887-1916 including interior

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - GRC (Historic Places Document Sheet)

The foundation stone of the Gordon Technical College was lain on 20th June, 1887 by the Jon Francis Ormond. M.L.C. a principal benefactor. Geelong architect Alexander Davidson designed the first building in the Scots Jacobean revival style derived from the work of his former master David Cousins of Edinburgh. The original was subsequently extended in a sympathetic and appropriate manner in 1889, 1891 and 1916. Like the former Working Men's College in Melbourne also founded by Ormond, the Gordon technical College has important foundations association with education of the working class in Victoria, is the genesis of the Deakin University, and a significant monument to General Gordon of Khartoum.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register.

Historic Buildings Council Register

Australian Heritage Commission register of the National Estate.

National trust of Australia (Victoria) register

REFERENCES

Liew, H. F. & Phau K. C. & Lian W. H. 'Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong' History of Architecture Research essay, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne 1961.

Geelong Advertiser - 19th January, 1887, meeting to establish the Gordon Memorial school of Arts. 23rd May, 1887, tender notice.

Jones C. W. - Guide to Geelong - Description and Pictorial, F. W. Niven & Co., Ballarat, 1890, for Huddart, Parker and Co Ltd pp. 15, 24.

Sillock, L. presently writing the History of the Gordon Technical College.

Gordon Institute of Technology, 'Golden Jubilee Brochure 1887-1937', List Print, Geelong, 1937.

Smith, James (Ed) - Cyclopedia of Victoria, Niven & Co. Melbourne, 1904 Vol 2 P. 435.

Williangham, Allan - 'Two Scots in Victoria' The Architecture of Davidson and Henderson', master of architecture thesis. Faculty of Architecture, University of Melbourne 1983.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House