State Buildings
Victorian government complex of grand colonnades and courtyards, reborn as dining, bars and a rooftop restaurant.
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This guide to the State Buildings in Perth starts on the corner where the city was founded in eighteen twenty nine, with the ceremony said to have marked the moment. It follows the story into a painting commissioned decades later for Western Australia's centenary, by Melbourne-born artist George Pitt Morison, who never witnessed the scene he had to paint. Along the way you will hear about the government offices and a Depression-era protest that later filled this same corner. Stand at Saint Georges Terrace and Barrack Street to take it in.
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