Vancouver House (Albany, Western Australia)
Vancouver House, also known as the National Bank building, is a heritage listed building located on Stirling Terrace, Albany, Stirling Terrace overlooking Princess Royal Harbour in Albany, Western Australia, Albany in the Great Southern (Western Australia), Great Southern region of Western Australia. The building is named after George Vancouver, who named King George Sound and Princess Royal Harbour and claimed the southern part of Western Australia for the British Crown in 1791. Tenders were called for in February 1881, and the building was constructed in 1881 by local builder Charles Keyser, who also built Albany House located further along Stirling Terrace. It initially operated as a branch of the National Australia Bank, National Bank but later was used as a cafe and food store and became a guest house in 2000. The building is of a Victorian architecture, Victorian free classical style and is part of a group of significant buildings along Stirling Terrace. It has two store ...
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Albany, Western Australia
Albany ( ; nys, Kinjarling) is a port city in the Great Southern region in the Australian state of Western Australia, southeast of Perth, the state capital. The city centre is at the northern edge of Princess Royal Harbour, which is a part of King George Sound. The central business district is bounded by Mount Clarence to the east and Mount Melville to the west. The city is in the local government area of the City of Albany. While it is the oldest colonial, although not European, settlement in Western Australia - predating Perth and Fremantle by over two years - it was a semi-exclave of New South Wales for over four years until it was made part of the Swan River Colony. The settlement was founded on 26 December 1826 as a military outpost of New South Wales for the purpose of forestalling French ambitions in the region. To that end, on 21 January 1827, the commander of the outpost, Major Edmund Lockyer, formally took possession for the British Crown of the portion of N ...
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