Falls Creek Buildings 1944 - 2022

Photos and brief histories of buildings at Falls Creek

1940s

1940 Bogong Ski Club at Rocky Valley (burnt 1944). 
1946 SEC Cottage (St Elmo-Beveridge's hut.) sold and removed to Toonalook at end of 1953. 

1947 - c.1973?, Skyline Lodge 1947-1973,

1947-1948 Ski Club of Victoria (relocated to become Red Hut which was burnt in 2003),
1947? Bogong Ski Club
1948, St Elmo-Beveridge's house

1948 , Albury Ski Club (burnt 1959, rebuilt 1960),

1948, Myrtleford Ski Club. 

1949, Red Hut aka Spion Kopje Lodge (½ way b/w Howmans & Falls) (burnt in 2003 wildfires). 

Dawn Ski Club 1950? (later Rocky Valley S.C.),

Grande Coeur 1950? burnt 1961, Nissen Lodge 1952.

1955. St. Trinian's, Bowna, ?Snowdon Ski Club?

Holbrook Ski Club [NSW} was planning to build in 1955.

Mid and late 1950's buildings include: Snow Crystal (since demolished & rebuilt), Nelse <1958 (extended c.1964, demolished & rebuilt 198?), Gundamurri, St Trinians, Kiewa Valley S.C., T & T (Transport & Trading) store (2 x old SEC huts on Winterhaven site, extended many times in the last 60 years), Diana Lodge, Galleon (ex SEC building, aka Cooroona), Bowna S.C., Mulligatawny (burnt c. 1956, replaced by Limlimbu), Four Seasons, Snowhaven (on site of Freuauf Village),

Frying Pan Inn 1958,

Arundel 1959 (extended 1964 & 1976, renamed Julian's in 1971), Snowden (later renamed Rim Rock) 1959.

1953 11 lodges: Albury, Myrtleford, Bogong, Hyman's, Nissen tow house, SCV Skyline, Kiewa Valley, Murray Valley, Galleon Ski Club, Dawn, Morona Towalla. Foundation ready for 1954 building Snowden Ski Club. (Ski Horizon 3/1953 p.11)

1961 Wat Thai

1961, Falls Creek Home Units (later renamed Alcatraz) c.1961 Woomargama S.C. (aka The Roundhouse) 

Rocky Valley Staff Camp (used as ski accom c.1962 until demolished in 1965),

1962. Wagga Alpine Ski Club, extended a couple of times before late 1970s, rebuilt 2020.

Cumming's Ski Hire c.1962,

(First) Australian Alpine Club (later Red Onion) 1963, Alpen Rose Flats c.1963, Ripparoo S.C. 1963, Pretty Valley (the top floor was the former mess building at Rocky Valley hydro camp) c.1963,

BSM Ski Club, first winter 1963  or 1964. Founded by employees of the architects Bates Smart and McCutcheon. Club still exists but website is restricted to members

Runaway Lodge c.1964, Molonys ski hire at base of Gully 1964,

Lions Club snack bar (on site of St Elmo's first hut) c.1964,

Karingal Flats 1964, Geelong S.C. 1964,

Koki c.1965, Avondale (later Feathertop) mid 60's, Pfefferkorn c.1965, Southern Cross Flats 1966, Spargo's (later Halley's) c.1966, The Man 1967 (extended 1978), Kilimanjaro Flats c.1967, Carey Alpine Club c.1967, CSIR S.C. c.1967, Naarilla Flats c.1967, Rainbow Club c.1967, Hukarere (later Alpha) c.1967.

1970's. Haus Innsbruck (called Karelia from '72) 1971, Attunga 1971, Les Chalet flats 1973, (New) Australian Alpine Club c.1972, Vikings S.C., early 1970's, (First) Falls Creek School 1972, The Hub shops 1978, Cedarwood c.1979.

1996. Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club day lodge at Windy Corner.

More on Falls Creek history:

Julian Newton Brown. Falls Creek: how it came to be. Janby Productions, 2005.

Bob Howe. Melting tracks: history and memories of Albury Ski Club and early Falls Creek. The author, 2004