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An important part of the central Bayley Street historic core.

Physical Description

Two of a row of four shops with deep verandahs and authentic shopfronts.

History

An important part of Bayley Street's commercial development.

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High

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Denver City Hotel

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Architecturally significant as a surviving, defining element in the streetscape and the Bayley Street precinct; close to its original character.

Physical Description

A two storied stone building with a two storied wide verandah and corrugated iron roof, still fully operative as an hotel and representative in design and materials of the corner pub of the late 1890s with evidence of many adaptions and alterations to original building fabric through time.

History

This is the third hotel built on this site, the first two were destroyed by fire. It is now the only remaining licensed hotel in this town which boasted 26 at its peak, 16 of these in Bayley Street. The original hotels on this site were single storey and the last built had the second floor added at a later date in about the 1930s.

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Architecturally significant as a surviving element in the streetscape and the Bayley St precinct close to its original character.

Physical Description

A two storied stone building with two storied verandah and CGI roof, still fully operative as hotel (1976) and representative in design and materials of the corner pub of the late 1890's. 1897/98 after the 1897 fire.

History

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Railway Hotel (fmr), Coolgardie

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• 00566 Row of 3 Shops & Lodge

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• 00566 Row of 3 Shops & Lodge

Statement of Significance

Architecturally significant as a surviving element, close to its original character, in the Bayley Street streetscape. Important in the definition of the historic Bayley Street precinct.

Physical Description

A simple two storied brick corner hotel with a two storeyed verandah and corrugated iron roof, originally built as a bonded store and later converted and extended as an hotel. The exterior is fairly authentic but the interior has been compromised by a series of alterations and additions and the removal of the bars. The hotel was de-licenced in the 1960s.

History

A representative type of hotel in a relatively unchanged state from the main period of Coolgardie's development when 26 hotels operated in the town.

Integrity/Authenticity

Moderate-High

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Coolgardie Town Hall

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A characteristic building type, still in use, with Historic and social associations with the establishment of the town and its early administration.

Physical Description

Town Hall and municipal chambers were built with a 'respectable' neo-classic brick facade, however behind this the building is a simple timber framed structure, clad in galvanized iron. The proposal to replace thi building with a town hall as grand and opulent as those at Ballorat & Bendigo never came to fruition.

History

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A modest example of a characteristic building type, still in use, with historical and civic aspirations. Demonstrates the establishment of the town and its early administration. A critical element in the streetscape of the Bayley Street Precinct.

Physical Description

The original town hall and road board office built in the 1890's with a respectable 2 room deep brick facade and characteristic timber-framed, corrugated iron clad structure behind. The brick part of the building employs classical motifs and has stucco strings, pilasters and pediments. A later classically derived entrance portico to the offices.

History

The place represents the earliest remaining evidence of accommodation for the local government. It also served as the meeting place of the Mechanics Institute. It also served as a cinema and had a picture garden on the eastern side. The latter's projection room is still intact.

Integrity/Authenticity

High

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Row of 3 Shops & Lodge

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00570 Railway Hotel (fmr), Coolgardie

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A significant part of the Bayley Street precinct. A minor but important surviving part of Bayley Street's 19th Century streetscape illustrating its small scale, lightly constructed commercial nature.

Physical Description

A group of 4 places with shop front windows and a verandah over the footpath constructed from tiber framing. One has an original sign stating "Billiards" hanging from under the verandah. Part of the eastern end of the structure was built from brick and formed part of the neighbouring hotel.

History

Part of the late 19th Century main street development terminating the western edge of the commercial centre.

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Moderate-High

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House

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An unexceptional typical house important for the way in which it contributes to the overall streetscape of Bayley Street.

Physical Description

An expansive hipped roof with a broken back roof over the verandah that encircles most of the house is a strong feature. Part of the verandahs have been filled in.

History

A moderately important representative house.

Integrity/Authenticity

Moderate-High

Condition

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Country Womens Association

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An important site now marked by a modest building that makes a positive contribution to Bayley Street.

Physical Description

A former CWA building it is a simple structure set in the centre of its site and with its neat appearance contributes to Bayley Street as part of the overall streetscape.

History

Set on the site of Coolgardie's most westerly hotel, the United Club Hotel, the CWA accommodation was constructed there in its wake.

Integrity/Authenticity

High

Condition

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Exhibition Building Site and Ruins

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These ruins are significant due to their industrial, archaeological, historical and social significance and in that they are associated withthe first school of mines.

Physical Description

The site contains a small number of arhcaeological remains of the large structure of stone, timber frame construction and iron that once stood on the site. The photograph above is contemporaneous and shows the building as it stood in about 1900.

History

The building was erected for the Coolgardie International Mining and Industrial Exhibition in 1899. The School of Mines was established in it in 1903 before being transferred to Kalgoorlie the following year. The bulk of the building burnt down in 1929 and the corrugated iron wings were moved to Perth as the first building of the W.A. University in Irwin Street.

Integrity/Authenticity

Moderate

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Statement of Significance

Historic associations with the boom period of Coolgardie. The building was erected for the International Mining and Industrial Exhibition 1899. The school of mines established in 1902 before being transferred to Kalgoorlie in the following ear the corrugated iron wings were later moved to Perth as the first buildings of the University of WA in Irwin St.

Physical Description

The site of the special building constructed around 1898/99 to house the Coolgardie International Mining and Industrial Exhibition which attracted over 60,000 people including from overseas. The building was later used as a School of Mines until 1917. The timber framed CGI wings were moved to Perth to become the first University of WA. It was destroyed by fire around 1930. The local authority intends to expose the remaining base of the walls and to re-erect parts of the corner portico as n exercise in upgrading the visual historic value of the site.

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House

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A minor cottage that contributes positively to the character of Bayley Street.

Physical Description

A small timber framed cottage with a gabled roof and timber joinery, iron clad walls and iron chimney flutes. It has a simply framed verandah.

History

Probably constructed in the late 1890's

Integrity/Authenticity

High

Condition

Fair

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Park

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• 00565 Mercy Gregory (Taylor) Monument in Park

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• 00565 Mercy Gregory (Taylor) Monument in Park

Statement of Significance

A place laid down i the 1897 townsite plan as parklands, to be a place of public pleasure, and maintained and used for that purpose today.

Physical Description

grassed and treed public space in the centre of the town, still used and well maintained. A critical place in the rigorous climate of the goldfields district

History

Assessment 1976 A.

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• 00565 Mercy Gregory (Taylor) Monument in Park

Statement of Significance

Important as a focus for leisure, relaxation and tourism, and as a symbol of civic pride.

Physical Description

A grassed and treed public place in the centre of the town, bounded by Bayley, Sylvester and Wilson Streets. Still used and well maintained. A critical place in the rigorous climate of the goldfields. The park is a perennial green oasis.

History

A park laid down in the 1897 townsite plan as parklands, to be used as a place of public pleasure and has been maintained for that purpose to the present day. Also the site of the first inland swimming pool in the southern hemisphere.

Integrity/Authenticity

High

Condition

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Burra Rock Woodline

Values

The place is associated with the gold rush in the Goldfields as it was used to source timber to fuel the industrial components of the gold mining industry as well as small commercial enterprises and domestic wood consumption.

The place is rare as a visable woodline track in Wester Australia associated with the Gold Mining Industry.

The place is representative and a good example of the woodlines that existed throughout the goldfields.

The place represents an industry comprising a large proportion of immigrant workers from the Southern and Eastern Europe.

The place is representative of a way of life no longer practised.

Physical Description

□ Distinct raised path through the bush. □ The compacted ground has prevented the return of plants once use stopped thus preserving the tracks for clear viewing. □ It is impossible to determine a curtilage to any chosen site at this time. Extensive time is required in the area with an experienced local guide with a 4WD. □ The actual tramline construction has been removed. The formations through the bush remain.

History

Wood was needed in the early 1900s in Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie to support machinery for mining as well as for private domestic use. More and more firewood were needed as the population rapidly increased in response to the gold rush experienced at the time. The stocks of wood around Kalgoorlie were rapidly depleted and woodcutters began to move further afield. Entrepreneurs such as W.N. Hedges devises a solution to these problems – a railway line ‘Woodline’ along which private trains operated transferring wood long distances into Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. Woodcutters who provided wood for these trains often lived in remote locations, leaving wood at the side of the rail to be collected. They lived in rustic conditions. They were also considered to be of a lower class than the miners. Relics from the woodcutters' camps can be seen along some of the tracks. The Woodlines were narrow gauge railway lines used to haul timber into Kalgoorlie-Boulder for the mines and fuel for industry. They were developed around 1900 following the discovery of gold in Coolgardie in 1892 and in Kalgoorlie the following year and operated until the 1960s. There have been reports from four-wheel drive users that use the tracks still contain many of the original railway elements remain such as loading ramps, landings, rubbish pits and camp remnants scattered in the vicinity of Burra Rock Road. Timber cut from the arid inland forests and woodlands was also used as fuel in the pumping stations along the Goldfields water pipeline between Mundaring and Kalgoorlie, completed in 1903. The last of the wood-fired boilers and pumping stations converted to diesel in 1960. By 1965 the Goldfields Woodlines and timber-fueled pump stations had been consigned to history. This Woodline is significant in that they are rarely found in such a good condition. The Shire of Coolgardie is in the preliminary stages of developing an interpretation centre based on the woodlines in the region.

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Moderate

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Statement of Significance

This woodline is significant in that they are rarely found in such good condition with most facets of early timber harvesting present, so close to the Coolgardie / Kalgoorlie area. The 39kms of line also covers a good area of typical goldfields vegetation types and is an excellent scenic route to travel between Cave Hill and Burra Rock.

Physical Description

A classic example of a 1930s woodline. This woodline stretches for 39kms and has a loading ramp, holding yards, landings and associated camps and rubbish pits scattered along the line.

History

Woodlines were rail tracks laid extending out from Coolgardie and Kalgorlie into the surrounding woodland to collect fuel for domestic and industrial consumption.

Integrity/Authenticity

High

Condition

Fair-Poor

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Wongi Dam (Hunts Old Dam at Wongi)

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24806 Hunt's Wells Group

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Higginsville

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Statement of Significance

An important site worth marking.

History

Site of the Two Boys mine and the discovery by Paddy Higgins. An integral part of the goldfields story; a brief success followed by disappointment and extinction. The Two Boys mine has been re-activated by Samantha Gold NL.

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Bonnievale Town site

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Impotant as a mining site but probably more important for the assocaite tale of determination and heroism associated with the Varischetti rescue.

History

An important mining town site made more important by the story of the Varischetti rescue after a 10 day ordeal underground. He was rescued by his workmates and Hughes and Heame are particularly important figures in the successful rescue bid.

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Kintore Town site

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An important site worth marking.

History

Kintore was famous for the alluvium found in 'cement', a conglomerate material of detritus held together with calcium or silcerous material. Gold had been discovered in Kintore in 1895. An integral part of the goldfields story; brief success followed by disappointment and extinction.

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Horse Rocks Well (Well No.23)

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24806 Hunt's Wells Group

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Original Pioneer Cemetery

Condition

The register entry includes two intact headstones, other stone grave markers, and a memorial, and the land on which they stand being Reserve 6441.

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Statement of Significance

Historical and social associations with the first settlers of the district.

Physical Description

The cemetery is a fenced area of land, approximately 50m by 50m. It contains two graves which are intact and several piles of stones marking locations of other graves. There is also a memorial to the early pioneers.

History

Assessment 1976: Site and intant headstones and railings The first burial ground in Coolgardie, containing the graves of the first 32 burials, the most notable of which is the grave of Holland, the renowned discoverer of underground water sources and trail blazer in the early days of the district.

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Statement of Significance

As Coolgardie's first burial ground, the cemetery is significant for its historical link with the early history of the town and important figures in the town's development.

Physical Description

The cemetery is a fenced off area of land, approximately 50m x 50m. It contains two graves which are intact, and several piles of stones marking the location of other graves. There is also a memorial to the early pioneers. This was the first burial ground in Coolgardie, containing the graves of the first 32 burials, the most notable of which is the grave of Walsh, the noted discoverer of the underground water source and early explorer.

History

The first cemetery in Coolgardie, later abandoned as being too close to the rapidly expanding town in 1894.

Integrity/Authenticity

Moderate

Condition

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Peter Pan

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The house has been built without foundations, which has led to problems with movement and cracking. The roof is in poor repair and requires attention.

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Statement of Significance

One of the few surviving examples of the more opulent houses in Coolgardie.

Physical Description

A stone house with brick quoins and corrugated iron roof, featuring the generous verandahs and general opulence of permanent buildings of the late 1890s; bought in 1903, by Samuel Roe. The front elevation is richly detailed with french windows, double hung windows and panelled doors. It is of a very similar design to that at 85 Shaw Street.

History

The house is associated with Samuel Roe, though not built for him. A. E. Thomas owned it for a time and named it Leighton House; it was later bought by Eric Seahill and renamed Peter Pan by him. It was also used as offices for Anaconda Mining for a time.

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John Morgan Well, John Morgan Park

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