About Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre
Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Urban Environment, Interesting Places
The Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre is a heritage-listed former juvenile detention centre and now parkland and redevelopment precinct on the Pacific Highway at Somersby, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by James Nangle and built from 1912 by the New South Wales Public Works Department. It was also known as The Farm Home for Boys, Girrakool and Kariong Juvenile Detention Centre. Today, the site is referred to as the Mount Penang Parklands, a redevelopment precinct containing parks and gardens, a high school, an events park, commercial and office space and residential development. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 19 September 2003.