Tour our Heritage Buildings
For an interactive tour view our Park Map
The Buildings of Old Gippstown
Old Gippstown contains 48 individual heritage buildings situated on sites nestled in parkland.
These buildings house a collection of furniture and artefacts to suit their periods:
- Browse through the squatting era by visiting Bushy Park Homestead (c.1840)
- selection times with ‘Calagero’ Log Cabin (c.1870)
- early farming days ‘Ashdale’ farmhouse and shearing shed (c. 1880)
- gold mining (miners’ hut)
- early travelling days ‘Rhoden’s Cobb & Co. Inn (c.1863)
- horse-drawn carriages
- motor vehicles collections
- police and emergency services Maffra Police Station (c.1883)
- Yallourn fire engine (1938)
- Sunny Creek School (opened 1889)
- Holy Trinity Church (consecrated 1895)
- Neerim Post Office (c.1917)
- Narracan Mechanics’ Institute Hall (1905)
- Tynong Mechanics’ Institute Hall (1886)
- Print Shop
- Bootmaker’s Shop (1906)
- Funeral Directors
- Meeniyan Bank (1889)
- Solicitor’s Office (c.1922)
- Narracan General Store (1889)
- ‘Loren’ Iron House (1853)
- Yallourn House (1930)
- and many more….
Listen to the audio recording of memories of power industry workers and their families from the Yallourn coal mine and power station, as well as residents of the now-extinct town of Yallourn. This recording also includes anecdotes from the life of Dr James Moore Andrew, the township’s first medical officer. Also, do not forget to visit our significant collections.
Maffra Police Station
This building originally stood in the yard beside the 1882 Maffra police residence. It was then a small office. In 1937...
National Bank, Meeniyan
The first banks in Gippsland were mainly set up in mining areas to purchase gold from the miners. In selection districts,...
‘Loren’ Iron House
Loren, which is on the Victorian Heritage Register and the Register of the National Estate, and owned by The National...
‘Calagero’ Log Cabin
A small, square log-and-mud-wall cabin with a corrugated iron roof, and a front verandah. There is a chimney on one wall...
‘Ashdale’ Farmhouse, Dumbalk
The building that we see today is as relocated from Dumbalk, although it has not yet been possible to reinstate the...
Tynong Mechanics’ Institute Hall/Theatre
Relocated from Tynong to Old Gippstown in 1978, it was refurbished as a cinema, with an adjoining store room and an...
Camera Display
A comprehensive collection of photographic equipment in showcases is housed in this room, including artefacts from keen...
Narracan General Store
This timber building was relocated to Old Gippstown in 1976 after dismantling and removing the post office and storage...
Solicitor’s Office
A small, rectangular, timber office, with a corrugated iron roof and pressed metal hoods over the front door and front...
‘Ashdale’ Shearing Shed and Fowler Steam Traction Engine
This shearing shed (sometimes called a woolshed) c.1880 was part of the Ashdale farm complex from Dumbulk North moved to...
Narracan Mechanics’ Institute Library
This new building was constructed in 2011 to house the original, and unadulterated collection of the Narracan Mechanics’...
Livery Stables, Warragul
Originally located at Warragul and used by the Williams family, general carriers, from the late 1880s. Skillions were added...
Wagon Shed
Purpose built on site to house some of our horse-drawn vehicles.
National Bank Stables
A replica built in the 1970s by Old Gippstown from recycled materials.
Dr Andrew Collections & Yallourn House
In 1975 the State Electricity Commission donated this Yallourn house to display the Dr J.M. Andrew collection and paid for...
Neerim Post Office
Joseph and Ethel Callow built this shop about 1917-1918 at Neerim. Ethel Callow sold sweets and school / stationery...
Dressmaker’s Shop
This building came as a shop from Traralgon some time prior to 1972 and the verandah has been added. In the early 1900s,...
Blacksmith Shop
Jim Mayze set up a coach building and blacksmithing operation in Traralgon in 1886 with a Mr West. Mayze and West...
Fire Station
This Old Gippstown fire station was originally a tennis pavilion from Moe, relocated in 1971. It houses the 1938 Dodge Fire...
Rhoden’s Cobb & Co. Inn
This drop slab and plaster inn was built in 1863 by David Connor on the north side of the road between Pakenham and...
Narracan Mechanics’ Institute Hall
This hall was built in 1905 to replace an earlier hall at Narracan East. In August 1978, the ownership of the building was...
Tuck’s Collection of Tinsmithing/Plumbing
Our Tuck display is a rare collection of tinsmithing and plumbing tools spanning 3 generations of the Tuck family. On...
Bootmaker and Saddlers’ Shop, Neerim South
Old Gippstown’s shoemaker’s building comes from the Main Street of the relatively small town of Neerim South, where it was...
Bushy Park Shed
Built around 1972 at Old Gippstown to represent one of the out buildings of McMillan’s time.
Maffra Lock-Up
This building was transferred from Rosedale to Maffra in 1869. These police cells, imported from England, were designed to...
Woods Point Lock-Up
This lock-up was transported from Trafalgar/Thorpdale RSL in 2015. The framework of iron bars in these lock-ups made it...
Gippsland Motor Garage
This building was constructed on site in 1972 and was named after a garage established in 1929 in Maffra by W.O. Fulton, a...
Wash House
This display shows a typical outside laundry up to the mid 20th century. Items on display include a wooden laundry trough,...
Coach Builders’ Workshop
This building was built on site by Old Gippstown, and in early days was used to restore many of the horse-drawn vehicles....
Contractors’ Shed
This building was built on site and is currently used as part of our restoration workshop. It houses a collection of...
Buggy Shed
This shed, from ‘Nyaalinga’ House, Moe, is typical of the sort of building that would have been behind the Narracan General...
Narracan Mechanics’ Military Display
This display is housed at the front of the Narracan Mechanics’ Institute Library building. To honour the sacrifices made by...
Rotunda
The rotunda, built in 1973, is a replica of the Yallourn Bandstand that was taken down when the town was demolished in the...
Water Wheel
This water wheel was originally from Buxton. It was used to generate electricity for a boarding house.
Farm Contractors’ Shed
Constructed in 1971 by Old Gippstown from materials on site, this large shed includes a variety of farm equipment including...
School Shelter Shed
Constructed in 1912, this shelter shed is from the Grey Street State School, Traralgon, and was relocated to Old Gippstown...
Sunny Creek School
SS2903 Sunny Creek State School, first called Yarragon East, situated on Sunny Creek Road, between Yarragon and Trafalgar,...
Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Moe
Dedicated on 3 December 1895 by Archdeacon Langley, deconsecrated in 1968 after a new church was built, and moved to Old...
Out Kitchen
A slab construction cottage built in Ripplebrook in 1880 as a home for a single female land owner, and later relocated to...
Bushy Park
A square shaped pit sawn timber house, with a corrugated iron roof over shingles. It has a verandah that covers both the...
Kilmany Railway Goods & Trolley Shed
Planned to be used as a railway display in the future.
Coach House, Willow Grove
Built in the 1920s on Tom Fowler’s farm at Willow Grove and used as a shed. This building was moved to Old Gippstown in...
The Print Shop
A collection of printing equipment, some still in operational order. This collection includes an 1870s Wharfdale flat bed...
Funeral Parlour, Traralgon
Arch Templeton of Traralgon, having worked for another funeral director (and driven the Hudson hearse in the collection, in...
Miners’ Hut
This hut came from the Tanjil goldfields, and was in use around 1900, the home of two miners on an old goldfield. The...