Dongara Library
Waldeck Street
This building was the third post office in the Dongara townsite. Prior to its construction, mail
was delivered to Maley’s Mill in 1866 and later to the Police Station. The building was
designed in 1891 by Chief Architect of the Public Works Department George Temple Poole
and built by WH Linthorne in 1894. The building incorporated the telegraph office and
manual telephone exchange run by a government appointed postmaster. Postal services
were transferred to a new building in Batavia Boulevard Shopping Centre in 1989. The
building is currently owned by the Shire of Irwin and is used as a library and visitor centre.
Telephonist Roma Tonissen inside Dongara Telephone Exchange, Dongara Post Office, 1947. IIRME1956
