Ouyen. This Masonic Temple was built in 1923. It is no longer used for that purpose. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Ouyen. This Masonic Temple was built in 1923. It is no longer used for that purpose. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Ouyen.The white pastoralists moved into this area of the Wimmera in the mid-1840s. The town of Ouyen did not really emerge until the arrival of the railway from Melbourne on its way to Mildura in 1903. In 1903 the line was extended from Woomelang to Mildura. Settlers arrived in the Ouyen district in 1906 and the town was formally laid out in 1909 although the first Post Office opened in 1907. The surrounding farm lands were purchased around this time for cereal growing. The district was boosted further when soldier settler farms were offered in the area after World War Two. Settlement spread westwards from Ouyen towards Pinnaroo from1909 as the strip of land to the border had good underground water supplies and the soils were suitable for cereal growing. The first town created to the west of Ouyen was Walpeup. By 1924 Ouyen had a population of 900 people and it was the administrative centre of Walpeup Shire from 1911. Ouyen’s population peaked at almost 1,700 people in the 1960s and it is now down to about 1,000 people. Some old and significant buildings in Ouyen include-: the former Courthouse now the local historical society rooms built in 1914 and the oldest building in the town after the wooden schoolroom (closed 1989) and the former Berriwillock wooden Presbyterian Church( and later Torrita Methodist church) which was built in 1908 and moved to Ouyen in 1990. The architect of the Courthouse was Samuel Bindley who worked for the public buildings department and specialised in designing courthouses. Some of his other courthouses in Western Victoria include Rainbow, Boort, Melton, Nhill etc. He often used a clerestory windows in his courthouse roofs. His Ouyen courthouse was used until 1927. By the early 1920s Ouyen had a grand hotel, the Victoria (1918) which claimed fame as the best hotel between Adelaide and Melbourne with sewerage and 48 rooms and a further four bay were added to the hotel on the northerner end around 1930. The classically inspired State Savings Bank of Victoria built in 1926 in Georgian Revival style Bank in Pickering Street. This two storey shuttered bank and residence is worth the short walk from the main street. It is one of the most unusual buildings in Ouyen. It is just along Rowe Street near the RSL Club Rooms (created from two adjoining 1920s shops in 1948) and the impressive Victoria Hotel. The Masonic Temple (1923) was built in Scott Street but the Masonic Lodge in Ouyen was created in 1919. The red brick Arts and Crafts style Post Office with half rounded arched windows was built in 1922 and beside it is the Soldiers War Memorial Column. The column erected in 1929. The primary school in Ouyen opened in a local hall in 1909 until the state school was completed in 1911 and part of it is still in use. The 1911 school is one of the oldest buildings in Ouyen. Ouyen Higher Elementary School was established in 1928 and built in a Neo-Georgian style in Mt Gambier limestone with a Marseilles tiled roof and a fine columned portico. In 1953 the name was changed to Ouyen high School. It is similar in design to the Swan Hill High school which was built at the same time. The Victory Theatre with an Art Deco façade was built in 1936 but the rear is just galvanised iron! Its name was later changed to the Roxy in 1954 and it closed as a theatre in 1971 but reopened in 2007. A red brick Presbyterian Church was built in 1922 in Cooper Street before the congregation amalgamated with the wooden Methodist Church of 1913. This wooden church was moved and attached to the red brick one! The first Catholic Church was built in Ouyen in 1921 but a modern structure from the 1960s now serves the town. A wooden transportable Anglican church was erected in Ouyen in 1920 but it was replaced with a modern structure in 1959 which has now amalgamated with the Uniting Church (Presbyterian and Methodists). This 1959 Anglican Church designed by architect Wystan Widdows was erected on a commanding position on a slight hill in the town using Mount Gambier limestone. Widdows was the architect of over 30 Anglican churches in Victoria in the 1950s and 1960s. Some fine stores and offices were also built in Ouyen during the 1920s and into the 1930s. The railway line was extended from Ouyen to Murrayville in 1912 and finally once SA government approval was received it was completed from Murrayville to Pinnaroo in 1915. A through passenger service from Adelaide to Melbourne and vice versus via Pinnaroo and Ouyen operated until World War Two. The last passenger train on the Ouyen to Pinnaroo line was in 1968 and the last freight across the SA Victoria border was carried on this line in 1996 with line from Ouyen to the SA border finally closing in 2007. The railway station itself was built in 1913, the overpass footbridge was constructed in 1922 and the Railways Institute building was erected in 1922. Ouyen got its first silos in 1937 (SA got its first bulk handling silos in 1954 at Ardrossan.) As an important grain town Ouyen also had a chaff, oats and grain warehouse in Oke Street (no 14.) Check out the owl advertising on the galvanised iron walls at the rear of the building. It was built around 1930 for Albert Loveridge who eventually stood for parliament. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-01-15 14:06:51 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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