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East Perth, Perth — Area Guide & Where to Stay
East Perth is an inner suburb beside the Perth central business district, rebuilt from industrial ground around Claise Brook and Claisebrook Cove.
About East Perth
Where to stay in East Perth
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Claisebrook Cove sits inside the suburb. Beds in East Perth stand on ground that was industrial until the state's largest inner-city renewal project replaced the works with streets laid out on new urbanism principles, and the walk to the Perth central business district is short. Two landmarks anchor that walk.
St Mary's Cathedral and the Western Australian Museum are the two big public buildings on the list here, and both put a guest within reach of central Perth on foot.
About East Perth
What are the main landmarks in East Perth?
Eight entries make up the list. The Western Australian Museum and St Mary's Cathedral, Perth are the public buildings on it, and the Monument to Migrants sits alongside a Serbian Orthodox Church of Holy Trinity that gives East Perth a second kind of landmark. Smaller things are listed too.
House 33 Wellington Street and the houses on Goderich Street are ordinary addresses that made the register, and The New Church closes a list running from cathedral to terrace.
What is the history of East Perth?
East Perth dates from 1890. Industrial land uses held the ground for most of that span, and the urban blight they left behind is what made East Perth the site of the largest inner-city renewal project Western Australia has run. It still holds that rank.
New urbanism shaped the residential neighbourhoods that replaced the works, which is why the rebuilt streets read as a deliberate plan rather than as infill dropped between Claise Brook and the Perth central business district.
Where is East Perth?
Claise Brook and Claisebrook Cove cut into East Perth, an inner suburb of a little over three square kilometres pressed against the Perth central business district.
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Updated September 2026