Residence (Former Post Office)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The former Portarlington Post Office was opened in 1888 and designed in Victorian Tudor style by G B H Austin, assistant Public Works Department architect for the Western District. The building has been altered and its integrity is fair. See Physical Description It is of aesthetic, social and historic significance to the local Portarlington community

The former Portarlington Post Office is of significance in its contribution to the commercial main street of Portarlington and to the township and surrounding rural area as a centre of communication. It was important in linking Portarlington to the wider world by post and telegraph and later was also the site of the telephone exchange. It is one of the few elaborate architectural works constructed on the Bellarine Peninsula in the nineteenth century.

It is of LOCAL cultural significance.

References

REFERENCE

Duggan, C - History of Portarlington Post Office, Curator/Historian Port Office Museum, Victoria GHRC

Geelong Advertiser - 10.3.1888, 19.9.1888.

Trethowan B - Public Works Department 1851-1900 - Barch, These Uni of melb 1975.

Duggan op.cit.

Australia Archieves plans nos

Group

Commercial

Category

Office building