This building has historic importance as the first permanent structure to be erected by the University on the Crawley campus. Its lecture theatre is the University’s oldest lecture theatre still in active use today.

The parcel of land on which the Park Ave Building stands was originally set aside for Kings Park. However, in the 1920s the Kings Park Board was keen to create an imposing western entrance to Kings Park and offered to give this land to the University in exchange for the property owned by the University on the corner of Winthrop Avenue and Stirling Highway where University Hall now stands. The Senate agreed to this land swap, as part of its on-going negotiations with the Kings Park Board because many members of the Senate wished to acquire a substantial part of Kings Park for use as the main campus of UWA.

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