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STEEL COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA (FORMER)

Other Name Fletcher Jones, Factory Location 14 FRITH STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 9061 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Steel Company of Australia

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Steel Company of Australia Complex (former), comprising thebuildings constructed prior to 1960, at 14 Frith Street, Brunswick.

How is it Significant?
The Steel Company of Australia Ltd complex (former) is of local historicand aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it Significant?
Of historic significance as a representative and perhaps the most intactexample of Brunswick's once prolific steel foundry industry that becamea characteristic form of manufacture in the suburb during the late 19thand early 20th Centuries. (AHC Criterion B.2)

Of aesthetic significance as a good example of twentieth centuryindustrial architecture, which is of note for its use of coloured brickand curved curved forms on a corner site in the Streamlined Modernestyle. (AHC Criterion E.1)