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Former Royal Australian Army Medical Corps Training Depot

Other Name RHSV Location 249 A'Beckett Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6139 File Number B6139 Level State

[1/1] B6139 Former Royal Australian

Statement of Significance

Built in 1938 for the Army Medical Corps, this drill hall and offices is a superior and intact example from a distinctive public building design-type which successfully combined the prevailing Moderne influences with the formal classical revival solemniity desired for public architecture.
It is also symbolic of a development of a continuing use-type (drill halls), reflecting a re-interpretation of what had been hitherto an almost sterotyped design response to the type and a substantial, well-preserved and prominent example of the Australian preparation for World War Two. This new type of drill hall was designed by the talented architect, G H Hallandal, working under the Director of the Victorian branch of the Department of Works, H J Mckennel.
Classified: 01/10/1990