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Caulfield Primary School No. 773

Other Name

Caulfield State School

Location

724 Glen Huntly Road CAULFIELD SOUTH, GLEN EIRA CITY

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Caulfield State School 724
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Caulfield State School 724

Statement of Significance

Caulfield State School No. 773 is important at the State level as the first of similar designs for small schools prepared by the Education Department under H. R. Bastow at Little Bendigo (1878), Glen Waverley (1880), Ascot (1882), Sandringham (1885) and Carlsrich (1892). It is a representative example of the Department's Gothic Revival designs, distinguished, however, by the semicircular treatment of the master's office, which compares with Portland (1879), Queensberry St Carlton (1880) and Footscray (1881). It has local significance as the earliest surviving Government School in Caulfield and as a centre for education from 1877, comparing with St. Mary's Jubilee School (qv) of 1887.

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