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Chemistry Centre
The building on the corner of Plain and Hay Streets was part of the former State Government Laboratory complex. It…
St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
This impressive church building was the second St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church built in Perth, the first one built in 1882 on…
Location
36 St Georges TerraceYear
1882- first St Andrew's Church, 1906-present St Andrew's Church, 1929-McNess Memorial HallStyles
Federation Gothic
Two Attached Houses and Separate House (Newcastle St)
The houses at 219-223 Newcastle Street comprise three single storey brick and iron residences in the Federation Italianate style – two attached (219 and 221) and one detached (223),…
Royal King’s Park Tennis Club
From unpretentious beginnings of two asphalt courts and a shed in 1899, the Royal Kings Park Tennis Club became the mecca for tennis in Western Australia…
Location
Kings Park RoadYear
1914- Pavilion, 1926– Members’ Stand and Pavilion, 1935- McGibbon Stand (Association Stand), 1956– Mursell Stand, 1965 – Eastman BuildingStyles
House 52 Mount Street
This impressive residence, built in 1892 for Everard Firebrace Darlot and his family, was one of Perth’s first ‘mansions’. Darlot was a successful pastoralist and politician, serving as a…
Royal Perth Hospital Administration Building
Royal Perth Hospital dates back to 1855 when the first stage of what was then called the Colonial Hospital was…
Burt Way Buildings (site)
A group of ten blocks of flats, built during the period 1940 to 1954, once lined this section of Burt Way and…
Location
3-8 Burt WayYear
1940, 1949-50s
ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA COMPLEX (MAIN GALLERY BUILDING)
The Art Gallery of Western Australia consists of several buildings built at different periods and some originally for other purposes. There…
Location
4 Roe StreetYear
1897, 1905, 1979
ABC Australian Sound Broadcasting and Television Studios
Built in 1960, the ABC Sound Broadcasting and Television Studios on Adelaide Terrace represented the modernist ideals of Post-War International architecture. Most people associate the building…
Houses 51-53 Goderich Street
These two small brick houses at 51-53 Goderich Street, East Perth, were built in 1878 and 1881. Although they were originally constructed as…
Houses 257 and 259 Adelaide Terrace
Although separate and quite distinct buildings, former residences at 257 and 259 Adelaide Terrace share similar characteristics and histories which unites them as a unique pair of houses in…
Perth Girls’ Orphanage
This building, constructed between 1899 and 1904, was originally the Perth Girl’s Orphanage and was the first purpose-built orphanage built by the Anglican…
Railway Hotel
Although now only the 1906 façade remains, the Railway Hotel stands on the site of one of the earliest licensed…
Perth Court of Petty Sessions
The Perth Courts of Petty Sessions – also referred to as just the Police Courts – was opened for business…
Art Gallery and Museum Buildings (WA Museum Complex)
This group of buildings comprising the Jubilee Building, Hackett Hall, the old Gaol, Government Geologist’s Building and the first State Art Gallery represent many layers of…
Location
5 Francis StreetYear
1855 - Old Perth Gaol, 1897 - Jubilee Building, 1903 - Victoria Public Library (dem), Govt Geologist's Building, 1908 Art Gallery (first), 1913 Hackett Hall, 1972 new museum building (dem)Styles
Federation Romanesque Style
Hale School
These buildings were originally built as the School Building (including the Memorial Wing), the Boarding House and a separate Pavilion Classroom for the Perth High School, later renamed…
Wellington Buildings
The Wellington Buildings are an integral component of a precinct of buildings in Perth from the Federation and Interwar periods reflecting the…
Location
150-160 William StreetYear
1910Styles
Tom Burke House
The building now called Tom Burke House at 153 Newcastle Street was constructed c.1897 as a terrace providing three prestigious dwellings. Although it is not…
Chief Secretary’s Office/Public Health Department
Few places of this size can have housed so many civil service departments over its lifetime as a government building. Built in…
Location
57 Murray StreetYear
1912Styles
Victoria Square Cottages
These four modest red brick and iron matching Victorian Georgian style cottages, located just across the road from the dominant element of St Mary’s Cathedral, are a…
St John’s Ambulance Building
This attractive Inter-War Art Deco building was constructed in 1940 as the headquarters for the St John Ambulance Association. It also…
Royal Perth Hospital: Kirkman House and Moreton Bay Fig Tree
From the time the hospital was established in the 1850s, nursing staff were initially not well-regarded and the poor standard of living…
Location
10-14 Murray StreetYear
1909- Kirkman House, 1926- ExtensionsStyles
Federation Queen Anne
Theatre Royal and Metropole Hotel
Both the Hotel Metropole and the Theatre Royal were built by local businessman, Thomas George Anstruther Molloy, one of the largest landowners in Perth and also a successful politician, serving as Member for Perth…
Location
637-645 Hay StreetYear
1893 (Hotel Metropol), 1897 (Theatre Royal)
Royal Perth Hospital: Heritage Precinct
The Royal Perth Hospital Heritage Precinct is home to the first purpose built hospital in Western Australia, opened as the…
Location
51 Victoria SquareYear
1855 Old Colonial Hospital (N Block), 1894 – Administration Building (M Block), 1909 – Kirkman House (Nurses Quarters - K Block), Old Kitchen (L Block), 1923 – Outpatients Extension, 1930 – Cancer Clinic (P Block)
No. 6 Electricity Sub Station
The No. 6 substation at the corner of Brown and Glyde Streets is an important part of the story of the provision of power…
Aberdeen Hotel
The history of the Aberdeen Hotel, one of the oldest hotels in Perth, takes in three different buildings that were…
Swan Barracks
Opening in 1896, the architect had designed the main entrance of the new military administration offices and drill hall as…
Trinity Uniting Church Group
Trinity Church was designed by Henry Stirling Trigg, the grandson of Henry Trigg who founded the congregation back in 1843.…
Wesley Church
Wesley Church is the third church in Perth built to serve the Methodist community. The first chapel was built in…
West Australian Rowing Club
The West Australian Rowing Club was founded in 1882, and originally had its boat shed at the end of Barrack…