City of Brunswick Electricity Supply Substation (former)
Other Name
Citipower transformer substation
Location
25A STEWART STREET, and CONNELLY STREET, BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
Level
Included in Heritage Overlay
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25A Stewart Street, Brunswick
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The City of Brunswick Electricity Supply transformer station (former)located at 25A Stewart Street, Brunswick.
How is it significant?
The City of Brunswick Electricity Supply transformer station (former)located at 25A Stewart Street, Brunswick is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
Of historical significance as a representative example of an intact andfunctioning part of the infrastructure supplying Brunswick withelectricity since c.1914. It demonstrates the important role of localCouncils in the supply and distribution of electricity in the periodprior to the formation of the SEC in 1918.
Of aesthetic significance as a representative and intact example of apublic utility building that assists in demonstrating the range ofarchitectural styles used in the construction of substations and similarbuildings in Brunswick, and regionally, across Melbourne.