Dutch Houses Story Collection
The Dutch Houses were built in the early 1950s
We are helping the Dutch Australia Cultural Center (DACC) collect stories from people who are associated with the Dutch Houses of Coopers Plains. The DACC Dutch Houses Story Collection Initiative is open to current residents of these houses as well as Dutch individuals who once lived in them and who are related to those who built them. Our primary goal is to gather stories, especially those related to the early days in the 1950s and the migration experiences of the residents during that period. We plan to showcase and archive these stories on both the DACC website and the Coopers Plains History Group website. If you have a story to tell, please read the information we already have in the links above and then you can either comment below or send your story in by email via the Contact page.
Suggest heritage list property as part of our History
Dawn, 6 of the Dutch Houses were proposed to have heritage protection as part of the very recent City Plan amendment. See HERE. It is much less than we lobbied for over many years (for a prime example in a prominent position such as #4 McKoy Street CPs) to be made open to the public. However, it is something at least to preserve these post war homes that are not eligible even for character overlay protection, so maybe in time when they are rarer and older there will be these few left and they may be better appreciated.