Northam, Australia Tourism

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an army training camp.

Northam has a number of interesting old buildings: Byfield House (1902-4; 30 Gordon Street), a brick and stucco building with a tower, now occupied by an art gallery and restaurant; the Avon Valley Arts Centre, in an old girls' school (1878); the old post office (1892; corner of Hawes and Wellington Streets); the Courthouse (1896); the Italian-style Town Hall (1897-8); the Avon Bridge Hotel (1859); and the Grand Hotel (1904).

The old railroad station (c 1886) on Millington Street, now houses a museum. The oldest building in Northam is Morby Cottage (1836) in York Road, a typical colonial-style settler's house.

In Irishtown, a few kilometers north of Northam, is the Buckland Homestead, a two-story house of 1874 with beautiful gardens.