Minnivale Hall & Honour Rolls

Statement of Significance

Minnivale Hall has both historic and social significance. It is one of the few community halls of this nature and style remaining in the central wheatbelt. Built in 1914 and in use until the 1960s the hall was central to the sense of community expressed in Minnivale and surrounding country. Weddings, balls, polling booths and welcomes to returning soldiers took place in this hall. Amateur dramatics, musical events and films were performed or shown here. The hall is still used for an annual Christmas function and is occasionally let to groups for parties. A community committee looks after its maintenance, adding to its social significance.

Physical Description

Large Community Hall raised on stumps, half-clad with asbestos fibre sheeting and half timbered. Interior of hall has stage, and one particularly fine first world war memorial as well as a plainer second world war memorial. The walls of the hall have timber dado. The floor is timber boards which are not tongue in groove but straight edged It is a 1950's replacement of an earlier floor. The hall also has a kitchen with fuel stove and copper. There is a small ticket office and window. The general condition of the hall is reasonably good Its main features are intact, but it requires maintenance from time to time and some replacement of plaster sheets behind the stage.

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