General Post Office, St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia
| dc.coverage.spatial | St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Barrack Street, Perth, Western Australia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2004-02-25T06:10:51Z | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-05T11:52:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2004-02-25T06:10:51Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-05T11:52:26Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1890s | |
| dc.description.abstract | View looking along St Georges Terrace, of the Treasury Building that was used for a period as Perth's General Post Office. The scene includes several men standing near the entrance, bicycles, a weighing machine and tall white-painted posts through which wires are threaded. The building is constructed in the typical style of colonial Perth in decorated bricks and rendered facings. It has a high, steeply sloping roof with dormer windows, projecting pilasters and some Victorian classical ornament around the higher windows. The Treasury was built in two stages. The two storey Barrack Street frontage was designed by Richard Roach Jewell and completed in 1874. Around 1887 Chief Architect George Temple Pool designed the St Georges Terrace section and added a third storey to the earlier part of the complex. | |
| dc.format.extent | 58976084 bytes | |
| dc.format.extent | 58979952 bytes | |
| dc.format.medium | photograph | |
| dc.format.medium | b&w | |
| dc.format.medium | 14.8cm x 20.1cm | |
| dc.format.mimetype | image/tiff | |
| dc.identifier | K334 | |
| dc.identifier.other | AU NBAC 23-48-23 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/181 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Intercolonial Investment and Land Building Company | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Noel Butlin Archives Centre. ANU Archives Program. | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 77 photographs of land in Western Australia, c. 1890-1902. | |
| dc.rights | This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University. | |
| dc.subject.other | Photographs | |
| dc.subject.other | buildings, structures & establishments | |
| dc.subject.other | official buildings | |
| dc.subject.other | Colonial architecture | |
| dc.subject.other | post offices | |
| dc.subject.other | roads & streets | |
| dc.subject.other | street scenes | |
| dc.subject.other | dormer windows | |
| dc.subject.other | arches | |
| dc.subject.other | brickwork | |
| dc.subject.other | balustrades | |
| dc.subject.other | bicycles | |
| dc.subject.other | scales (apparatus) | |
| dc.subject.other | Jewell, Richard Roach | |
| dc.subject.other | architect | |
| dc.subject.other | Temple Pool, George, architect | |
| dc.title | General Post Office, St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia | |
| dc.type | Image | |
| dspace.entity.type | ANUArchivesItem | |
| local.description.notes | Inscribed in white on image, l.r.: POST OFFICE PERTH. W.A. | |
| local.description.notes | The Intercolonial Investment and Land Building Company was formed in 1885 to deal in real estate and to operate as banker and financial agents in the Australian colonies. In 1887, it absorbed the Joint Stock Building, Land and Investment Company Limited. The Company became a subsidiary of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd in January 1960. |