Former Ballarat Girls School - Barkly Street, Ballarat
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
The former Ballarat Girls School, now part of Ballarat Secondary College, is a beautiful example of post war Art Deco architecture. Although built between 1954 and 1955, the school's main building of honey yellow clinker bricks is very Art Deco in its design. It features an emphatic vertical fin and a stepped facade and roofline. Minimalist in its decoration, it has Functionalist Steamline Moderne windows. Even its round porch lamp, is very modern in design. All these features give the building a very elegant and striking appearance in comparison to the 1860s architecture surrounding it.
Former Ballarat Girls School - Barkly Street, Ballarat
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
The former Ballarat Girls School, now part of Ballarat Secondary College, is a beautiful example of post war Art Deco architecture. Although built between 1954 and 1955, the school's main building of honey yellow clinker bricks is very Art Deco in its design. It features an emphatic vertical fin and a stepped facade and roofline. Minimalist in its decoration, it has Functionalist Steamline Moderne windows. Even its round porch lamp, is very modern in design. All these features give the building a very elegant and striking appearance in comparison to the 1860s architecture surrounding it.