Freemasons Hall (Formerly Geelong Unity & Prudence Lodge)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Architecturally, this Masonic hall shows a typically innovatory approach to the strict iconography of the Masonic craft by tow of Geelong's best-known architects, Percy Everett and J Angus Laird. It also represents the first structure to be custom-designed for the Geelong Lodge, which itself is on of the oldest in the State. It is remarkably well preserved externally and faithfully represent the aesthetic choices made by some of Geelong's foremost citizens of the time and one of its most celebrated designers, Percy Everett, as demonstrated in the praise meted out the Geelong Advertiser. It also plays a role in the Geelong's civic thoroughfare, Gheringhap Street, with its fine array of notable public and ecclesiastic structures.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House