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War Service Homes Heritage Area

Other Name

Birdwood, Mitchell, Monash and Prince Streets

Location

Birdwood, Mitchell, Monash and Prince Streets Maribyrnong, Maribyrnong City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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HO12(5) - War Service Homes,
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HO12(2) - War Service Homes,
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HO12(3) - War Service Homes,
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HO12(1) - War Service Homes,
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HO12(4) - War Service Homes,
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HO12(6) - War Service Homes,

Statement of Significance

The War Service Homes Precinct is historically significant to the City of Maribyrnong because:
- the War Service homes part of the precinct has a distinctive function related to events in the City and the State's history, this being the city's best example of such a war service estate (Criteria A4, B2) ; and
- the precinct as a whole is expressive of the immediate post WW1 era and thus reflects an important era of growth in the City, with well preserved, if simple, examples of single storey detached Californian Bungalow and Mediterranean villa style weatherboard houses, with common front and side setbacks and originally fronted with wire fabric or low simple timber picket style fencing (Criterion A4).

Australian Heritage Commission (AHC) criteria

The Australian Heritage Commission criteria consist of a set of eight criteria which cover social, aesthetic, scientific, and historic values. Each criterion has sub-criteria written specifically for cultural or natural values. The relevant criteria are:

A.4 demonstrates well the course and pattern of history, important historic events

B.2 rarity

Group