Former IOOF Lodge - Williamstown Victoria
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S 37° 51.664 E 144° 54.012
55H E 315285 N 5807521
A former Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Hall, now used as a private dwelling.
Waymark Code: WM8769
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 02/12/2010
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The trustees of the hall included a record of the event when the foundation stone was laid for this, then, two-room stone hall on the ninth day of September, 1863; the 27th year of the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria. Erected at a cost of £652/10/-, the designer was Lawrence Worthington (listed as a Williamstown plumber in 1868 and later Superintendent of the Williamstown fire brigade), and the builders Messrs. Goss and Pitt.
Some of the officers and trustees at the time of the construction of the Hall were Henry Douch (q.v.), John Fowler (q.v.) and a blacksmith, John Gilbert, secretary from 1870-1880. Gilbert was the 'foreman' of Williamstown's first fire brigade (1854) and a councillor. Later trustees were Frederick Woods and Roger Barnes who Wilson Evans in Port of Many Prows writes was a well known Inspector of Nuisances.
The Baptists worshipped there for the period prior to the erection of their own church in 1884.
It has been claimed to be the first Oddfellows hall erected in Victoria, outside of Melbourne town.
Historical information about this hall has been borrowed from Heritage Victoria
Location Details:
26 Pasco Street, Williamstown VIC 3016
Date of construction: 1863
location website: [Web Link]
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