Lutana Community Hall

Community hall built by the EZ Company as part of the development of the new suburb Lutana, which was first called Lutana Village. The EZ Company started in the mid 1910s to produce zinc for a world market that was under threat from the impending World War 1. The company not only built a new manufacturing business but also a lot of social infrastructure required by their workforce. This included housing where the EZ Company established the new suburb Lutana Village which was close to the new work site. Lutana Village was somewhat cut off from a lot of other amenities and as the village grew there were numerous requests from the locals for the building of a hall to allow for social events. After World War 1 ended and as zinc prices increased in the early 1920s the EZ Company agreed to building a hall and village store, initially to be in the one building but were built as separate buildings next to each other. Once built the hall was used by the community for social, sporting and general activities including the establishment of a free kindergarten for the local children. In the early years it was more widely used across the broader community but as Lutana was cut off from easy public access from the late 1920s became more a space for the locals of Lutana Village and the EZ Company. Since 1999 it has been privately owned but with plans to continue community access.