Boans

Boans
IndustryRetail
Founded1895; 129 years ago (1895)
FounderHarry Boan
Benjamin Boan
Defunct1986; 38 years ago (1986)
FateAcquired by Myer Holdings Ltd
Headquarters
Perth
,
Western Australia
Area served
Western Australia
The Boans Building in Wellington Street, shown here in 1936, was built in 1912 and demolished in 1987. Padbury Buildings and Forrest Place just visible in lower and mid right portion of picture
Boans c. 1938. Includes brass band playing in street with crowd gathered to listen and The Grand Central Shaftesbury Hotel in the background.

Boans was a department store chain that operated in Perth, Western Australia between from the late 19th century to the late 20th century.

It was located between Wellington Street and Murray Street and had the Padbury Buildings between it and Forrest Place.

The store was founded by Harry Boan and his brother Benjamin who both came to Perth in 1895 from Broken Hill in western New South Wales.[1] Harry and another brother, Ernest, had previously established a successful drapery known as "Boan Bros. Ltd." in that town.

  1. ^ Toby Manford. "Boan, Henry (1860 - 1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, Australian National University. Retrieved 6 May 2007.