A New Age for a Nostalgic Building – EMC House 18 Colin St, West Perth WA 6005
EMC has recently moved to the heritage-listed building at 18 Colin St West Perth once known as Lexbourne House.
Lexbourne House (fmr) was built during a time of prosperity in Western Australia and is one of the more substantial houses built in West Perth, a prestigious residential suburb close to the city of Perth that became popular in the early twentieth century for its elevation and proximity to the city.
Lexbourne House was built for Robert Law, a prominent West Australian builder and entrepreneur in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In partnership with William Atkins, Law was responsible for the construction of a number of prominent buildings and structures throughout Western Australia. Law established a number of brickworks, which were consolidated as Metropolitan Brick and was the founder of Monier, the first company in Western Australia to manufacture concrete pipes and concrete roof tiles.
Lexbourne House was designed by the architectural firm Cavanagh, Cavanagh and Parry and is one of the more elaborate residential designs of the firm’s principle designer, Michael Cavanagh. The firm designed a number of residential, commercial and ecclesiastical buildings throughout Western Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The building is 100 years of age (in 2011) and holds great architectural value in Western Australia’s history. It is ornate and grand in scale and design; it is an excellent example of the residential design of the period.
Within its walls, the historic building would have many stories to tell, but none more exciting than its eminent future – housing the dedicated EMC team, influential in the changing landscape of Western Australia’s clean energy sector.