Chamber of Mines Building

Author

Heritage Council

Place Number

01273

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Detail of museum building, corner of Egan Street and Cassidy Street

Location

115-145 Egan St Kalgoorlie

Location Details

Cnr Cassidy St

Other Name(s)

includes School of Mines and Mines
Museum

Local Government

Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Region

Goldfields

Construction Date

Constructed from 1895 to 1903

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
State Register	Registered	20 Sep 1993	Register Entry

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type	Status	Date	Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	09 Jul 2001	Category 1	Category 1 The place is registered with the Heritage Council of WA as it has a high level of significance to the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and to the state of Western Australia. All applications to carry out work on the place will need to be referred to the Heritage Council of WA for its approval.	City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Register of the National Estate	Permanent	21 Mar 1978
Classified by the National Trust	Classified	08 Mar 1976

Child Places

Condition

This building was formerly laboratory and offices çof the London and Hamburg Co. The Chamber of çMines is an unostentatious single-storey çbuilding. It has a red brick wall with stuccoed çparapet and corrugated galvanised iron verandah çfacing the street. There is a small stone wall çand hedge in front of the building. The School çof Mines and the Museum are large single storey çred brick buildings, built in a simple vernacular çstyle with corrugated galvanised iron roof and çwide verandahs. The museum has a neo-classical çentrance portico with arched gateway and çornamental pediment (N. Trust).

Associations

Name	Type	Year From	Year To
Clarke, Arthur Edward	Architect	-	-

State Heritage Office library entries

Library Id	Title	Medium	Year Of Publication
4012	Conservation and Museum Development Plan for Western Australian School of Mines Museum Kalgoorlie	Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan}	1999

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	SCIENTIFIC	Laboratory or Research Station
Present Use	EDUCATIONAL	Museum
Other Use	EDUCATIONAL	Technical School
Original Use	COMMERCIAL	Office or Administration Bldg

Architectural Styles

Style
Federation Free Classical

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Roof	METAL	Corrugated Iron
Wall	BRICK	Common Brick

Historic Themes

General	Specific
OCCUPATIONS	Commercial & service industries

Creation Date

30 May 1989

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

31 Dec 2016

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