Hackett Hall

Hackett Hall
Hackett Hall in January 2021
General information
Type	Heritage listed building
Location	Perth, Western Australia
Coordinates	31.949807°S 115.860486°E / -31.949807; 115.860486 (Hackett Hall)
Western Australia Heritage Register
Type	State Registered Place
Designated	16 October 1992
Reference no.	2026

Hackett Hall is a heritage listed building, previously housing part of the State Library of Western Australia. It is now a part of the new WA Museum Boola Bardip complex in the Perth Cultural Centre, in Western Australia. The name of the Hall is related to the benefactor of The University of Western Australia, John Winthrop Hackett.

It was located on James Street, Perth and its western end was adjacent to the southern end of Museum Street. The Museum Street section between the former James Street and Francis Street was closed from traffic to create the Perth Cultural Centre.

It was designated as the main building of the Library in the 1930s as the "Public Library of Western Australia in Hackett Hall".^[1] There is a hall of the same name at The University of Western Australia.^[2][3] It was photographed at the early stages as a library space.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} It was renovated in 1957.^[9] It was registered as a heritage building in 1992 with the State Register of Heritage Places,^[10] and had been listed by the National Trust.

Hackett Hall is now the home of Otto, the WA Museums giant whale skeleton.

Gallery

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  Hackett Hall in 1913.
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See also

• Winthrop Hall

References

1. Illustrations Ltd (1935), Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery corner of James and Beaufort Streets, Perth and Public Library of Western Australia in Hackett Hall, retrieved 24 January 2020
2. Melville-Jones, John, The Hackett Memorial buildings at the University of Western Australia, Carlisle, W, A. Hesperian Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-85905-543-7
3. Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Corporate Photography; HRRC (1974), Hackett Hall, University of Western Australia, retrieved 24 January 2020
4. Mitchell, E. L. (Ernest Lund) (1913), Hackett Hall, premises of the Public Library of Western Australia, James Street, Perth, 18 August 1913, retrieved 24 January 2020
5. Hackett Hall, Public Library, 1920, retrieved 24 January 2020
6. Mitchell, E. L. (Ernest Lund), State Reference Library of Western Australia, inside Hackett Hall, retrieved 24 January 2020
7. Sharr, F. A. (Francis Aubie) (1961), State Reference Library of Western Australia in Hackett Hall, Perth, retrieved 24 January 2020
8. Sharr, F. A. (Francis Aubie) (1962), State Reference Library of Western Australia in Hackett Hall, Perth, retrieved 24 January 2020
9. West Australian Newspapers (1957), Library Board photographs including photographs of reorganisation of the State Library, retrieved 24 January 2020
10. "Hackett Hall". InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 January 2020.