Beehive Corner

Nearby tenants included Edmund Wright the well-known architect, William Ekins the gunsmith[3] and James Allen's printing shop.

[6] It had been a well-known landmark for fifty years in 1895 when what is essentially the present Beehive Buildings were built for the owner, Henry Martin to replace the antiquated structure.

In the new design by George Klewitz Soward,[7] four shops had frontages on King William Street and three facing Rundle Street, each 8 ft. (2.4 m) high, with jarrah floors and plastered walls and rear access and one shop 14 ft. (5.3 m) high, all having large plate-glass windows and nickel-plated columns.

It was built three storeys above the pavement, and was Gothic in character, each gable finishing with crockets and a finial, and with open balustrades between them.

Sliding shutters were fitted to the windows facing King William Street, with a handsome iron verandah made by Fulton & Co.