PHOTOGRAPH: ENTRANCE OF 'HARVEY HOUSE' (PREVIOUSLY MATERNITY HOSPITAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL)

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Overview

This black and white photograph shows the entrance of the colonial era building on Barker Road now known as 'Harvey House'. Now home to the Western Australian Medical Museum, this building was originally built as the Government Industrial School and from 1916 housed the King Edward Memorial Hospital, WA's first maternity hospital.
In the photograph the entrance is almost obscured by trees and shrubs on either side of the steps. The large doors are rounded at the top to follow the curved brickwork pattern around the entrance, with three small windows above the doors. On both sides of the entrance are towers with cupolas on the top. There is also a low decorative concrete wall at the edge of the roof to one side of the building, and three cars parked in front of the building.

Historical information

This building was originally built as the Government Industrial School and was converted into the state's first maternity hospital in 1916. Now home to the WA Medical Museum, it is named Harvey House in honour of the hospital's first Matron Eleanor Harvey.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1984.187

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

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Width

200 mm

Height or length

290 mm

Keywords

King Edward Memorial Hospital

Health and Hospitals

Architecture

For Digitising April 2023

Government Industrial School

Statement of significance

This image is significant for documenting a particular stage in the ongoing reuse of 'Harvey House', which although originally constructed for use as a reform school, has also functioned as a maternity hospital and now houses a medical museum.
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-31.948063918138, 115.81893728836

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