The Korumburra Masonic Hall Sign - Bridge Street, Korumburra
Located at 25 Bridge Street, the Korumburra Masonic Hall is a tribute to how large and influential a centre this little town once was. With a concrete Art Deco facade built in the late 1920s or early 1930s in front of two earlier gabled halls, the Masonic Hall has a large street frontage opposite the former post office and diagonally across from Korumburra’s Austral Hotel on the crest of a hill, commanding a great deal of attention.
The Art Deco facade decoratively, is extremely stripped back and the only piece of ornamentation identifying it as a Masonic hall are a sign stating so and the symbol of Masonic tools located above two of the four entranceways. The building is very Inter-War Stripped Classical in style because of the limited decoration, its symmetrical façade, the division of the frontage into vertical bays indicating classical origin and the element of the Art Deco style in its decoration. This Art Deco detailing is perhaps the building’s main attraction as a continuous frieze across the stepped pediment features geometric patterns, fans and swirls so evocative of the Jazz Age. Two of the double doors once used have been filled in, but the two remaining are subtly recessed.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.
The Korumburra Masonic Hall Sign - Bridge Street, Korumburra
Located at 25 Bridge Street, the Korumburra Masonic Hall is a tribute to how large and influential a centre this little town once was. With a concrete Art Deco facade built in the late 1920s or early 1930s in front of two earlier gabled halls, the Masonic Hall has a large street frontage opposite the former post office and diagonally across from Korumburra’s Austral Hotel on the crest of a hill, commanding a great deal of attention.
The Art Deco facade decoratively, is extremely stripped back and the only piece of ornamentation identifying it as a Masonic hall are a sign stating so and the symbol of Masonic tools located above two of the four entranceways. The building is very Inter-War Stripped Classical in style because of the limited decoration, its symmetrical façade, the division of the frontage into vertical bays indicating classical origin and the element of the Art Deco style in its decoration. This Art Deco detailing is perhaps the building’s main attraction as a continuous frieze across the stepped pediment features geometric patterns, fans and swirls so evocative of the Jazz Age. Two of the double doors once used have been filled in, but the two remaining are subtly recessed.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.