Walter House
169 Gray St and 101-103 Brown St HAMILTON, Southern Grampians Shire
Gray St Commercial Precinct Hamilton
Statement of Significance
SIGNIFICANCE: Keystone building on corner. Represents the major development in Gray Street in the 1950s.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Walter House
169 Gray Street
This building was constructed in 1954 or earlier with substantial additions made c1958. ([i]) Fabric from the bank building previously on the site was incorporated into the present structure. It has local significance as a key building on the corner of Gray and Brown Streets and for its architectural interest as an example of the work of the architects, Walter & Auty, of Walter House, Warrnambool ([ii]) and for its innovative use of aluminium sheeting and the steel flagpole. These architects also designed the Eventide Lutheran Homes in Hamilton (1962-65). ([iii]) Walter House has historical associations with its owner in the 1950s, H Walter, who is quite likely the H F Walter, grain store proprietor, leading citizen and mayor, referred to in Don Garden's Hamilton: A Western District History. ([iv]) The Union Bank was formerly on this site. The existing building has been altered on the ground floor but survives substantially intact and in good condition.
[i] HSA DP No. 3 (1954, 1958). Additions shown in 1958 plan.
[ii] Ibid.
[iii] Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the opening of the Eventide Lutheran Homes, Hamilton 1962-1987, Glenelg Regional Library, p 9.
[iv] Garden, Don, Hamilton, p 215.
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