Media
West Wallsend Community Centre, alternatively the School of Arts building. Supplementary information supplied by Ken Boyle.
Photo Ref: 2722
Creator: Unknown
The School of Arts building was officially opened 12 December 1892. The original building comprised a hall and a library and reading room on the first floor, with a billiard room and offices on the upper storey. There was a large balcony on the upper story from which many official speeches were delivered over the years. The foundation stomes were laid on either side of the front steps in a ceremony on 20 April 1901. This building was the original School of Arts building opened 12 December 1892. The building has had many uses. It doubled for some time as the community hall, The rear portion of the building was the temporary home of West Wallsend Workers club for a period.from August 1947-1954. It also operated as a branch of Lake Macquarie Library from 1954-1986, and as a Community Centre.
This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
- Related search terms
- buildings
- buildings
- community centres
- schools of arts
- schools of arts
- west wallsend
- west wallsend