

There Was Once an Asylum



This site not only provides an overview of mental health history and its implications for Goodna but also explores the complex relationship between memory and history
There are stories we may never know, but this site uncovers the history, revealing the layers of understanding that form the foundation of the present.
It is done in a way that honours the patients, clients, and the people.
Garage
Built before 1944
The Garage is a highly intact, small, freestanding single-car garage building located east of, and facing toward, the Shelter Shed for Female Patients.
Features of the Garage of state-level cultural heritage significance also include
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Structure and materials: concrete slab floor; timber-framed walls and gable roof; corrugated metal sheets cladding walls and roof; sheet-and-batten gable infill; timber-framed and boarded garage doors; timber-framed rear window; unlined interior walls and roof
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Large slate stone slabs in the ground outside garage doors.