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	Old Geelong Orphanage Aslyum & Common School Former Protestant Orphan Asylum McCurdys Road, HERNE HILL VIC 3218 - Property No B1191	A substantial two storey bluestone orphanage with sandstone trim, built in 1855 in the Scottish style and significant as an important early social institution of the Geelong district. It was built in 1855 as the result of an architectural competition inwhich designs were submitted by Geelong architect Andrew McWilliams. The Common school was built in 1865 to designs by architect Joseph Lowe Shaw. Both the Orphanage & school are significant at State level due to the ... more	B1191	State

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Old Geelong Orphanage Aslyum & Common School

Former Protestant Orphan Asylum

McCurdys Road, HERNE HILL VIC 3218 - Property No B1191

A substantial two storey bluestone orphanage with sandstone trim, built in 1855 in the Scottish style and significant as an important early social institution of the Geelong district. It was built in 1855 as the result of an architectural competition inwhich designs were submitted by Geelong architect Andrew McWilliams. The Common school was built in 1865 to designs by architect Joseph Lowe Shaw. Both the Orphanage & school are significant at State level due to the ... more

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