York Street, Albany
York Street is the main street in the centre of Albany, Western Australia. It runs south from a junction with Albany Highway, Lockyer Avenue and Middleton Road downhill towards Princess Royal Drive and the Anzac Peace Park at the foot of the hill adjacent to Princess Royal Harbour.
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As a historic street, with streetscape and precinct into adjoining Stirling Terrace,[1] it has the Albany Town Hall, opened in 1888,[2] and other buildings of significance.
In the 1880s, an issue of the lower portion of the street was over restrictive fencing;[3][4] the issue was resolved by the construction of a gate.[5]
The Premier Hotel was built opposite the Town Hall in 1891.[6]
The Albany Advertiser has its office in lower York Street.
Many photographs have been taken over the last hundred years of the street.[7][8]
Notes
- Donaldson Smith Architects & Urban Designers; Royal Australian Institute of Architects; RAIA Architects Advisory Service (1983), Evaluation for restoration : historical precinct, Stirling Terrace and Lower York Street, Albany, Western Australia, The Architects, retrieved 3 May 2016
- "Albany Town Hall, 217 York Street, corner Grey Street West". Albany Gateway. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- "Public Meeting at Albany". The Daily News. VII (2270). Western Australia. 28 July 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Public Meeting at Albany". The Inquirer And Commercial News. LXVII (1323). Western Australia. 1 August 1888. p. 5. Retrieved 20 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- "ALBANY". The W.A. Record. XVI (497). Western Australia. 6 March 1890. p. 8. Retrieved 20 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Premier Hotel". InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- Western Australia. Government Photographer (1900), York Street, Albany, 1946, retrieved 3 May 2016
- [Views of Western Australia], 1900, retrieved 3 May 2016