Hawkesbury People & Places
Freemans Reach School of Arts
School of arts
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This community hall is located on Blacktown Road near the intersection with Gorricks Lane, Freemans Reach, New South Wales. It was built by contractors E J and F A Cupitt of Windsor and the architect was Mr Lancaster of Richmond on a small parcel of Crown Land and was opened in July 1904.
The community hall was renovated in 2023 with funding from the NSW government. Works included landscaping, fencing, new driveway, polished floorboards and a bright, fresh paintjob. Read more about the rejuvenation https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/news/rejuvenated-hall-freemans-reach
Reference: 10 November 1900, p 7
‘An endeavour is being made to have a School of Arts built at Freeman’s Reach and we understand that the Progress Association has already taken the initiative’.
Source: NSW Government Gazette
Reference: 560
Appointment of trustees for the land therein specified - Reserve No 32994 at Freeman’s Reach, County of Cook, Parish of Wilberforce, area 3 roods, notified 13 July 1901, for Mechanic’s Institute site. - Messrs George Nicholls, James Farlow, Lawson Smith, Samuel Smith, George Greentree.
Excerpt from the Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 23 July 1904, p. 4. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/8911502
Excerpt from the Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 6 August 1904, p. 6. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/85892282
Reference: Reference: SRNSW Series 15318 Item 2031
State Archives and Records NSW [www.records.nsw.gov.au] holds files for Freemans Reach School of Arts from from 1/1/1951 to 31/12/1979.
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