| House | $486,200  |
| Unit | $317,600 |
| Land | $477,500  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Eagle Point | $465,600 |
| Forge Creek | $458,300 |
| Lucknow | $606,500 |
| Wy Yung | $705,000 |
| House | $405 |
| Unit | $306 |
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| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - March 8, 2005 What is significant? The former Mitchell Valley Motel was built by the prominent builder, later conservationist, environmentalist and academic, David Yencken. Itwas designed by the distinguished Melbourne architect John Mockridge, and opened in late 1957. It was the second motel to be opened in Victoria, and the first in country Victoria. In contrast to other Australian motels of the late 1950s, it was simple in design and was an inspiration to Robin Boyd in his design of the Black Dolphin Motel, Merimbula, in 1961. The former Mitchell Valley Motel consists of three single storey buildings: two blocks of motel rooms, and a reception building (which was extended in 1971). The 1957 buildings are timber framed, sawtooth gable-roofed pavilions, allowing high-light windows, all linked by flat roofed covered walkways. The external wall lining is vertical timber boarding and the roofs are corrugated asbestos cement sheets. The dividing walls between units are concrete blocks, for sound insulation, and all sit on concrete slabs. Services are slung beneath the roofs of the covered walkways, which are supported by timber posts on metal stirrups. How is it significant? The former Mitchell Valley Motel in Bairnsdale is significant for architectural and historical reasons at a State level. Why is it significant? The former Mitchell Valley Motel is architecturally significant as one of the earliest motels in Australia, the second in Victoria and the first in country Victoria. It is significant as an early example of a new building type which arose in the United States in the 1940s and was adopted in Australia in response to the dramatic rise on car ownership and travel in Australia in the 1950s. It is architecturally significant as the first motel in Victoria to be designed by an architect, and is a direct antecedent of the most significant motel building in Australia, Robin Boyd's Black Dolphin Motel at Merimbula, developed by David Yencken four years later. The Mitchell Valley Motel is historically significant as the second motel built in Victoria, as the first in country Victoria and amongst the first in Australia. It is significant as a reflection of the social and economic changes which were occurring in post WWII Australia, particularly the dramatic rise in family travel by private car in Australia in the 1950s. It is significant for its association with the prominent Melbourne architect John Mockridge and with the builder, academic and conservationist David Yencken. Classified: 'State' 28/02/2005 Demolished: 2008 |
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