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Sewerage Vent West Perth
One of the more curious heritage structures in Perth is a series of sewerage vents which have been entered in…
Location
Cook StreetYear
Styles
Sewerage Vent, East Perth
One of the more curious heritage structures in Perth is a series of sewerage vents which have been entered in…
Location
Royal StreetYear
Styles
Saunders Building
Saunders Building was built in 1892 for the Silver Pan Confectionery Company. The site comprised a single storey shop fronting…
Location
499 Wellington StreetYear
1892Styles
S Chester Building
The Sydney Chester Building was erected in 1891 as a grocery store. It was a good location on Hutt Street,…
Location
176-178 William StreetYear
1891Styles
Royal Hotel (Wentworth Plaza/Raine Square/Royal Hotel, Complex)
There has been a Royal Hotel on this site since 1882. The first Royal Hotel was designed by Irish patriot…
Rosen Buildings
The Rosen Building was constructed in 1923, and had shops on the ground floor while the first-floor level was originally…
Location
218-220 William SquareYear
1923Styles
Rechabite Hall (Independent Order of Rechabites Hall (fmr), Commonwealth Trading Bank Store)
Rechabite Hall was erected in 1925 for the Independent Order of Rechabites (IOR), a friendly society which also promoted total…
Location
224 William StreetYear
1925Styles
Railways Institute Building (fmr) (Chief Mechanical Eng WAGR Bldg (fmr))
605 Wellington Street was erected in 1897 for the Metropolitan Water Works Board. As the name suggests, this department’s role…
Queen’s Gardens (East Perth Clayfields Reserve, East Perth Park)
Queen’s Gardens in East Perth is an attractive open space with lakes with waterlilies, displays of flowers, manicured lawns and…
Location
Hay StreetYear
1899Styles
Queens Buildings
Queen’s Buildings were opened in 1898 and constructed for the nearby Wesley Church. Designed by architects Wilkinson & Smith, the…
Location
97-107 William StreetYear
1898Styles
Protestant Hall (fmr), Perth
Protestant Hall (1901) is a distinctive building on Beaufort Street with its relief of William of Orange on horseback, with…
Location
160-162 Beaufort StreetYear
1901Styles
Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade
One of Perth’s best Art Deco buildings, Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade was constructed in 1938 for shifty mining investor, Claude…
Phineas Seeligson’s (fmr), Perth (City Loans Office, Commercial Building)
One of the most distinctive buildings on Barrack Street was erected in 1894 for pawnbroker Phineas Seeligson. A three storey,…
Peter Pan Statue, Queen’s Garden
Queen’s Gardens in East Perth is an attractive open space with lakes with waterlilies, displays of flowers, manicured lawns and…
Location
70 Hay StreetYear
1899Styles
Perth Technical College
Before 1900, apprentices received only on-the-job instruction, and although the Swan River Mechanics Institute had offered courses of lectures from…
Perth Railway Precinct (Perth Railway Station)
The foundation stone for the first Perth Railway Station was laid on 10 May 1880. It was part of the…
Perth Mint
The discovery of gold in large quantities in the early 1890s not only brought people and money into Western Australia,…
Perth Government Stores (fmr) (Department of Mines, Murray House)
When the Government Stores opened on Murray Street in 1911 it proved controversial with Fremantle residents. As the name suggests,…
Location
70-74 Murray StreetYear
1911Styles
Perth Girls School (fmr) (Police Traffic Dept, Police Traffic Branch)
When the Girls School at East Perth opened in 1936 it replaced a building on James Street which had become…
Location
2 Wellington StreetYear
1936Styles
Perth General Post Office (Perth GPO)
To say that the General Post Office took a long time to build would be an understatement. The Commonwealth Government…
Perth Concert Hall
Perth Concert Hall opened in 1973, and has long been considered to be superb example of brutalist architecture, with its…
Location
5 St Georges TerraceYear
1973Styles
Perth Chest Clinic (Hibernian Hall, Cathedral Hall)
When it first opened in 1902, Perth Chest Clinic was known as Hibernian Hall and served the local Irish-Australian community.…
Location
15-17 Murray StreetYear
1902Styles
Park Avenue Building, University of Western Australia (Zoology Building, UWA, Biology and Geology Building)
Completed in 1924, the Park Avenue Building was the first structure for the University of Western Australia on its new…
Location
Cnr Park & Crawley AvsYear
1925Styles
Palace Hotel (fmr) (Bankwest)
Not only is the Palace Hotel on the site of one of Perth’s oldest taverns, it was also the centre…
P&O Building (fmr) (Orient Line Building, MAS Building, Malaysian Airlines)
When the Orient Company’s new building was opened in September 1930, Governor William Campion remarked on the “great services” the…
Location
56-58 William StreetYear
1930Styles
Outram Street Terraces (Kent VilOutram Street Terraces (Kent Villa, Heimath, Echuca, Wainera, Janey’s Supper House Cafe, Office, Restaurant)
This row of single-storey houses is a reminder of time when West Perth was one of the most prestigious suburbs…
Location
74-82 Outram StreetYear
1904Styles
Old Swan Brewery Precinct
The former Swan Brewery is not only one of the finest groups of brewery buildings in Australia, it is also…
Location
Mounts Bay RoadYear
1879Styles
Old Observatory
When the foundation stone for Perth Observatory was laid in October 1896, almost every important person in the city was…
Nurses Memorial Centre (Kathleen Reidy House)
Although it is now used as commercial offices, 34 Kings Park Road was once a fashionable residence called ‘Fiona’ and…
Location
34 Kings Park RoadYear
1899Styles
Noarlinga Chambers
Noarlinga Chambers was constructed in 1923, and had shops on the ground floor while the first-floor level was originally residential.…