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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