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Coburg Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station (former)

Location 725 Sydney Road, Coburg VIC 3058 - Property No 38631 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] 725 Sydney Rd. Coburg

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former Coburg Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station located at 725 Sydney Road, Coburg.

How is it significant?
The former Coburg Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station located at 725 Sydney Road, Coburg is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Of historic significance, for its role housing the Coburg Fire Brigade (which was already in existence) from its construction in 1925 to its closure in 1992. (AHC Criterion A.4)

Of aesthetic significance as a typical example of inter-war civic architecture, and good example of the work of the Brigade's long serving architect Cedric Ballantyne. (AHC Criterion E.1)