In 2015, the City of Whitehorse recognised the ‘Former Kildonan Children’s Home’ as a significant local landmark.

‘What is significant?
Kildonan Children’s Homes were established as a residential care home by the Presbyterian Church in Elgar Road Burwood from 1937 and buildings remain from 1937, 1941 and 1946 to designs by architects, F Bruce Kemp, L Hume Sherrard and K
Murray Forster (1937) and Marcus Martin & Tribe (1941, 1946). They were one of a number of similar homes established particularly by the church, in the City of Whitehorse.

How is it significant?
The buildings that remain at the former Kildonan Children’s Home site are of historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Whitehorse.

Why is it significant?
The buildings that remain at the former Kildonan Children’s Home site are of historical significance as a visual reminder of the original purpose of this important site. Together with the buildings that remain at the former Orana Methodist Peace Memorial
Homes, Tally Ho Boys Village and Salvation Army Boys Home, these buildings are illustrative of an important historical theme
in the municipality.
The Administrative Block is of aesthetic significance as a fine, distinctive and intact building designed in the moderne style of
the 1930s.
The former Kildonan Children’s Homes are of social significance for their strong associations with a significant number of
people who were accommodated at the facility over a period of time.’