FORMER ARARAT LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT AND TURNTABLE

ARARAT RAILWAY COMPLEX, HIGH STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

Ararat Railway Station was opened on 7 April 1875 and the main station buildings were completed by July 1875. In 1928 a new corrugated iron locomotive shed was built, replacing the original…

MIDLAND THEATRE

250 BARKLY STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

The Midland Theatre was built on a corner near the civic precinct of Ararat for Otto Spehr and J. Friedman. Designed by architect Rhys Hopkins to hold nearly 1000 patrons, it opened in 1938…

Ararat Drill Hall

Collings Street ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

Vic. War Heritage Inventory

The expansion of the armed forces from 1911 and then the outbreak of the First World War resulted in a large number of drill halls being constructed by the Commonwealth up to 1918. During…