‘Lawson’– Perth, WA

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What

The ‘Lawson’ building namesign.

Where

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Street address

2 Sherwood Ct, Perth WA 6000

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Location

Find it on The Esplanade near the corner of Sherwood Court

When

1937

Built1

c. 1984–1986

Karrakatta Club occupies the two lower floors2

By 20 Oct 2020

Karrakatta Club moved to ANZAC House

Who

Built by

Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society3

What else

AKA (also known as)

Lawson Flats4


Listing description

The building’s address is listed as Sherwood Court, but this entryway to the building faces The Esplanade.


References

  1. Horsley, L and Wynne, E, Lawson flats: One of Perth’s finest surviving inter-war apartment buildings is set to lose its view, 2014, 15 September [webpage], ABC Radio Perth, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-15/lawson-apartment-building-set-to-lose-its-view/5745162. ↩︎
  2. Horsley and Wynne, 2014. ↩︎
  3. Horsley and Wynne, 2014. ↩︎
  4. Horsley and Wynne, 2014. ↩︎

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  • Photo: Elliott Bledsoe, ‘Lawson’ at 2 Sherwood Court, Perth, 2012 [digital photograph]. Taken at 7:10 am AWST on Wednesday 15 August 2012. © and image courtesy: Elliott Bledsoe. Licensed for reuse under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) The Creative Commons icon; two lowercase Cs in a circle, similar to the global symbol for copyright but with a second C inside the circle. The Creative Commons attribution icon; a representation of a person inside a circle.

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