The Art Deco Facade of the Colac Police Station - Dennis Street, Colac
The Colac Police Station and Court House complex has been built on the corner of Queen and Dennis Streets with the entrance facing onto Dennis Street.
Designed by Public Works Department the Colac Police Station is very Art Deco in spirit. Built of cream clinker bricks it features very Functionalist Moderne windows, a concrete enclosed vestibule with Deco detailing and a stepped skyline with red brick detailing, upon which may also be found the crown of King George V which may be found on similar Public Works Department designed police stations of the 1930s around the state of Victoria.
The new Colac Police Station and Court House were built on the site of the former Court House and Police Station that were built in 1889. The original bluestone cells from the original complex still exist to this day and are in use in the Twenty-First Century.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
The Art Deco Facade of the Colac Police Station - Dennis Street, Colac
The Colac Police Station and Court House complex has been built on the corner of Queen and Dennis Streets with the entrance facing onto Dennis Street.
Designed by Public Works Department the Colac Police Station is very Art Deco in spirit. Built of cream clinker bricks it features very Functionalist Moderne windows, a concrete enclosed vestibule with Deco detailing and a stepped skyline with red brick detailing, upon which may also be found the crown of King George V which may be found on similar Public Works Department designed police stations of the 1930s around the state of Victoria.
The new Colac Police Station and Court House were built on the site of the former Court House and Police Station that were built in 1889. The original bluestone cells from the original complex still exist to this day and are in use in the Twenty-First Century.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).