Leeton is a purpose built town designed by Walter Burley Griffin in the early part of the Twentieth Century in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area of New South Wales.
The town features many Art Deco buildings and the district hospital is no exception. A mostly plain brick building but with a lovely entrance.
The grounds include what looks like nurses' quarters which is even plainer but again has some decoration around the entrance.
I particularly like the small balcony above the doorway.
Plaques inside the porch indicate the foundation stone for this building was laid on 9th February 1938 by H P Fitzsimons MLA, NSW Minister for Health and he then opened the building on 23 April 1941.
Badly flooded a few years ago. Oh for an appropriate wire screen door.
ReplyDeleteSounds bad Andrew! I know Yanco, nearby was cutoff by floods for a while but wasn't aware Leeton had been affected too.
DeleteWith the exception of the two decorative bits that you mentioned, the buildings are indeed extremely plain. Perhaps post-Depression and pre-the outbreak of war in 1939 was not a good time to be building luxuriously.
ReplyDeleteCould be a bit of cause and effect with the Deco style evolving into a simpler streamline version around this time.
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