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MORELAND PARK BUILDINGS (AUSTRALIA HOUSE)

Other Name Shops Location 148-164 SYDNEY ROAD,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 38247 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Moreland Park Buildings

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Moreland Park Buildings (Australia House) at 148-164 Sydney Road, Coburg.

How is it significant?
The Moreland Park Buildings (Australia House) at 148-164 Sydney Road, Coburg are of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Of historic significance for their associations with Montague Dare and the development of the Moreland Park estate, one of the most prestigious to be developed in Coburg during the land boom of the late 1880s. They demonstrate the optimism for future development that characterized the speculative development at that time. They also have associations with the centenary of European settlement of Australia, which is reflected in both the name and design of the building. (AHC Criteria A.4 & H.1)

Of aesthetic significance as a representative example of a Victorian Italianate shop row, which contributes to the historic character of Sydney Road. (AHC Criterion E.1)