Original post 16 March 2020:

Frankston Primary School; two stages, both by #PercyEverett, Chief Architect of the #PublicWorksDepartment, and very characteristic, with that horizontal sunshade running all round and through vertical windows, and two tones of brick plus render. I thought the two storey end looked like maybe a good attempt to copy his style from the 80s or 90s, so neat, few details, but it’s 1945 (!), and was added to the earlier slightly more elaborate one storey section, built in 1938. Both parts have new aluminium window frames, chunkier than the original steel ones.

#FrankstonPrimarySchooln- the sign on this cute, tall single room classroom block implies it was built in 1874 when the school was established, but, I thought, ‘it doesn’t look very 1870s, looks almost Edwardian in fact’, and turns out it was built in 1889- the original school was timber. It’s not really Edwardian, all that timber work fooled me, the #polychromebrick is very 1880s, and this was when the department was moving from their typical brown brick gothic into other styles, it’s a bit eclectic actually.

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