Albany Club (Western Australia)

This article is about the Albany Club in Western Australia. For the Albany Club in Toronto, see Albany Club.

Albany Club
Map
Former namesAberdeen House
General information
Address23 Aberdeen Street
Town or cityAlbany
Coordinates35°01′30″S 117°53′05″E / 35.0249°S 117.8847°E / -35.0249; 117.8847
TypeState Registered Place
Designated9 May 2006
Reference no.3
References
Heritage Council of Western Australia

The Albany Club also known as the Aberdeen House is a heritage listed building located on Aberdeen Street in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

In Western Australia, only the Weld Club in Perth is older than the Albany gentlemen's club, which was established in 1894. No private club outside the metropolitan area has occupied the same building for so long.[1]

John Moir, who served as the mayor of Albany for four terms, built a new residence on Aberdeen Street in 1886; his wife died shortly before the residence was completed. Moir, who was also a founding member of the Albany Club, let it be used as a club facility from 1895 until 1939 when the club acquired the building. The Albany Club building later became heritage listed.[2]

The building has two storeys and is constructed of stuccoed brick and with a corrugated iron roof, designed in the Victorian Style with Italianate elements.[3]

In 2005 the building received interim heritage listing.[1]

Foundation members of the club include: Albert Young Hassell,[4] John Moir, S. J. Haynes[5] and W. H. Angove.[6]

  1. ^ a b "More protection of Albany heritage". Media Statements. Government of Western Australia. 22 July 2005. Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Albany Club". inherit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Permanent Entry". Register of Heritage Places. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  4. ^ "One of the Pioneers". The Daily News. Perth, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 21 September 1918. p. 2. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Personal". The West Australian. Vol. XLVIII, no. 9, 240. Western Australia. 5 February 1932. p. 16. Retrieved 6 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Hawthorndene". inherit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2016.