The Everett Buildings are a group of heritage listed buildings in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
| Everett Buildings | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Heritage listed building |
| Location | Albany, Western Australia |
| Coordinates | 35°01′38″S 117°53′13″E / 35.02721°S 117.88697°E |
| Type | State Registered Place |
| Designated | 7 December 2007 |
| Part of | Stirling Terrace Precinct, Albany (14922) |
| Reference no. | 15548 |
They are located on the corner of Stirling Terrace and Spencer Street almost directly opposite the Old Post Office building.[1] The Everett Buildings are part of a group of similar scale two storey buildings that have an asymmetrical facade. The buildings have rendered brick walls and parapet walls above the roof line.[2]
The building was originally a single storey with a second storey added on much later. The buildings also have massed informal windows, recessed doors, rendered chimneys with moulded caps and a cantilevered box verandah.[2]
In 1936 the buildings were auctioned. They were a grocery, hardware store, drapery, tea-rooms, confectioners and a four bedroom private residence.[3]
A drapery in the building that had existed since 1911[1] nearly burned down in 1938 when a fire started in the building. Volunteers extinguished the fire after establishing a bucket chain. The building was owned by Percy McCarthy at the time.[4]
In 2014 a heritage grant was awarded to the Everett Building and other heritage buildings for work such as painting and repairs to facades, brickwork and windows as part of Anzac Centenary commemorations.[5]
Albany Backpackers now takes up part of the buildings which was originally Everett's store.[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Details". Albany Public Library. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ a b c "Everett Buildings". InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Advertising". Albany Advertiser. Vol. 9, no. 977. Western Australia. 9 March 1936. p. 2. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Fire in the Drapry". The West Australian. Vol. 54, no. 16, 187. Western Australia. 18 May 1938. p. 9. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Media Releases Heritage shines for Anzac Centenary". Heritage Council of Western Australia. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2016.