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CFA Building

Location

227-229 Gray St HAMILTON, Southern Grampians Shire

File Number

HAMDS035

Level

Stage 2 study complete

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26501 CFA Building

Statement of Significance

SIGNIFICANCE: As the building housing the CFA and for its importance in this part of the Gray Street streetscape.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Country Fire Authority Building

227-229 Gray Street

This building has local significance for its architectural interest as a fire station in the late Classical style and for its historical associations with the Hamilton Fire Brigade, a volunteer fire brigade, having been formed as early as November 1880. ([i]) An earlier fire station was located in the Town Hall Reserve in part of Crown Allotment 16, Section 8 in Gray Street. ([ii]) The Hamilton Fire Brigade was rated for its new site in 1901, ([iii]) and the building was completed by 1902. ([iv]) The facade has been altered to accommodate larger vehicles thereby compromising its integrity but the building is in good condition.

[i] Garden, Don, Hamilton, pp 99, 156.

[ii] Hamilton Rate Book 1900, No. 230.

[iii] Ibid., 1901, No. 14.

[iv] Ibid., 1902, No. 13.

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