Nurses Home and Surgeons Residence (former), 2,4 Edward St, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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S 37° 03.654 E 144° 12.756
55H E 252159 N 5894736
The former Nurses Home and Surgeons Residence.
Waymark Code: WM16384
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 04/25/2022
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The two buildings are the surviving structures of the now demolished nineteenth century Castlemaine Hospital. The former nurses' home was constructed in 1890-91 of face brick on a stone plinth and with a corrugated iron roof. Asymmetrically arranged with a projecting room housing the old hospital board room (which still has its Tobin ventilating tubes), the front section also contained the matron's room .
The former doctor's residence was constructed in 1880-81, symmetrically arranged, the face brick house has a central stuccoed porch over the entrance and cast iron decorated verandahs which return down both sides. The roof is slate and the dressings stucco
List: Register of the National Estate
Place ID: 15474
Place File No: 2/06/092/0029
URL database reference: [Web Link]
Status:
Registered
Year built: 1880 , 1890
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