
Area around Forrest Fire Station,
Canberra
The blocky Forrest Fire Station, overlain
with hints of Stripped Classicism, is just one element of
the group of buildings in the block contained by Canberra
Avenue, Empire Circuit, Fitzroy Street and Manuka Circle.
The block also contains seven residences – two storey
dwellings at each corner, three two-storey duplexes in between
– that originally housed Fire Brigade and Ambulance
Services staff.
The buildings were designed in the department of Interior
Works Branch by Chief Architect Edwin Henderson and Cuthbert
Whitley. The hand of Henderson is possibly more evident in
the Fire Station, that of Whitley in the Modernist dwellings.
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