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Brooklyn Migrant Hostel (Former)

Location

431 Francis Street BROOKLYN, Hobsons Bay City

Level

Not Recommended

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Brooklyn Migrant Hostel (former) comprising the Nissen hut (via Gate 1) and two early wool stores (84, 85) and land within nominally 5m of their perimeters, which operated between 1949-70, at 431 Francis Street, Brooklyn.

How is it Significant?

The Brooklyn Migrant Hostel (former) is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, it is significant for its strong associations with immigration in the post World War 2 era which was the foundation of a population surge in the Altona area (AHC criterion A4)

Socially, it has strong associations with the local community, many of whom were migrants or are related to immigrants and the memory held by local people of the place and its function as celebrated in the publication The Ten Quid Tourists. (AHC criterion G1)

Group

Commercial

Category

Woolstore