Aminya Reserve

Aminya Reserve, Watsonia, comprising approximately 0.7 hectares of parkland, including exotic and native trees, and the 1940s Watsonia Community Hall, is significant. Aminya Reserve also contains a second community building which is not significant in its own right.

How is it significant?

Aminya Reserve, Watsonia is of local historic, scientific, aesthetic and social significance to the City of Banyule.

Why is it significant?

Aminya Reserve, Watsonia is historically significant as a remnant section of land once used for farming and subsequently utilised as the site of Watsonia's Community Hall, built in the early 1940s. Its plantings of pine, cypress and a sole remaining fruit tree reinforce this early history. Aminya Reserve is historically significant as the location of Watsonia's Community Hall, one of the suburb's early community facilities. Gate pillars and boundary pine planting along Lambourn Road and Kenmare Street date back to this construction. (Criterion A)

Aminya Reserve is socially significant both as a passive recreation ground for the local community, and as a focus for community activities centred around the Watsonia Community Hall and the Watsonia Community Centre / Neighbourhood House. (Criterion G)

Aminya Reserve is aesthetically significant for its rich landscape featuring exotic and native tree plantings of mixed ages, remnant and regenerating indigenous trees, and grassy fields. This is further reinforced by the built landscape offering examples of 1940s public, and 1970s residential, building types. (Criterion E)

Group

Community Facilities

Category

Hall Public