St Laurence’s Memorial School – Ogilvy Street Leongatha
St Laurence’s Memorial School in Leongatha’s Ogilvy Street was opened on March 24th 1957 by the Bishop of Sale, the Most Reverend Richard Ryan.
Built of stuccoed brick, St Laurence’s Memorial School is a beautiful example of post-war Art Deco architecture. The scalloped edge of the parapet, the stepped skyline, the emphatic vertical piers and the streamlined windows of rippled glass all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that was so popular and iconic before the Second World War.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
St Laurence’s Memorial School – Ogilvy Street Leongatha
St Laurence’s Memorial School in Leongatha’s Ogilvy Street was opened on March 24th 1957 by the Bishop of Sale, the Most Reverend Richard Ryan.
Built of stuccoed brick, St Laurence’s Memorial School is a beautiful example of post-war Art Deco architecture. The scalloped edge of the parapet, the stepped skyline, the emphatic vertical piers and the streamlined windows of rippled glass all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that was so popular and iconic before the Second World War.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.