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Mooroopna & District Base Hospital

Other Name Mooroopna Extended Care Centre Location McLennan Street,, MOOROOPNA VIC 3629 - Property No B6773 File Number B6773 Level Local

[1/3] B6773 Entrance Portico [2/3] B6773 Front Entrance Drive [3/3] B6773 Mooroopna Hospital 1917

Statement of Significance

This hospital complex, mainly built between the 1910s and 1930s, is of historical, social and architectural significance at local level. First established on the site in 1876, the hospital was added to in the succeeding decades to become one of the largest outside Melbourne by the 1920s. It was the main hospital in the Goulburn Valley area until the Shepparton Base Hospital, begun in the 1950s, eventually led to the closure of the Mooroopna Hospital in 1974. Up until then, the hospital had been a major employer in the town, and had become a major centre for the training of nurses. The Hospital is architecturally notable as a complex where a number of different wings, built 1910s to the 1930s, are related by the consistent use of red brick. The main entry wing, built in 1936 to the design of A & K Henderson, is individually notable as a very large, severe, classically inspired institutional building, with a finely detailed stripped classical portico.
Classified: 06/10/1997