Mount Gambier Fire Station | |
Coordinates: | -37.8322°N 140.7844°W |
Location: | Mount Gambier, South Australia |
Built: | 1955 |
Designation1: | South Australian Heritage Register |
The Mount Gambier Fire Station, at 40a Sturt Street, in Mount Gambier, South Australia is a historic site listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. It was built in 1955. It was deemed notable as "an unusual and intact example of a mid-1950s utilitarian purpose built service building. The building is representative of post-war functionalist architecture on a minor scale, and was the basis of the prototype for of a number of new regional fire stations. It demonstrates the provision and upgrading of public utilities after World War Two (Mt Gambier Heritage Survey, 1994)."[1]
As of 2018, the building is being used as an optometrist office.[2] [3]
The current Mount Gambier Fire Station is located at 20 Crouch Street. It is staffed by alternating shifts of 5 firefighters during the day, and is backed up by retained crew overnight.