The Organ Factory

Former organ factory located in Melbourne, Australia. It was built in 1884 for a boot factory, and became an organ factory in 1927. Since 1974 the Organ Factory has been home to an amazing range of activities. It has been used as a Community Education Office and by local artists and numerous local theatre and recreation groups. It has also been the home of yoga, self defence and meditation classes, the Flying Bookroom Theatre Company, an experimental music centre, Fringe Festival productions, and the Bushwahzee Band. New Theatre became tenants in 1976 and remained the principal user of the upstairs theatre space until 2000. Today the Organ Factory is administered by Gold Street Primary School and is used for classes and the after school care program. Local artists hire some rooms as studios.