Perth Town Hall

by richard.offen on 05/05/2009

Said to be the only convict-built capital city town hall in Australia, the Town Hall was built between 1867 and 1870. It was designed by Richard Roach Jewell and James Manning in the Victorian Free Gothic style to reflect its important role in the administration of the colony.

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