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Gembrook General Store

Other Name

Gembrook General Store & Newsagency

Location

60 Main Street,, GEMBROOK VIC 3783 - Property No B6885

File Number

B6885

Level

Local

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B6885 General Store Gembrook

Statement of Significance

A traditional general store of significance as a local community landmark. The present weatherboard and timber lined structure consists of a double gabled frontage added in the 1920s to an earlier store built between 1902 & 1905. The original 19th century store still exists, though somewhat altered, to the right of the present structure. This store, together with the Ranges Hotel, and the Gembrook Coffee Palace, formed the core of the town of Gembrook at the terminus of the Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Railway line (now Puffing Billy), and the building continues to evoke the timber and tourist trade of earlier days.
Classified: 06/07/1998

Group

Retail and Wholesale