The Old Courthouse, Alice Springs
27 Hartley Street, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
The building now called The Old Courthouse, originally began life as government offices. When John Cawood came to Stuart in 1927 (as Alice Springs was known until 1933) to take up office as the Government Resident for Central Australia, he suggested that the government offices be sited across the road from The Residency instead of next door as first proposed.
Perhaps Cawood was attempting a bit more distance between home and work in the tiny and isolated township that was Alice Springs in the 1920s?
