Heritage Buildings

Colonial Main Street

Glen Innes Highlands' main street, Grey street, has many heritage, grand 19th-century buildings.

Our main street is a popular attraction for visitors with an interest in history, with one of the highest concentration of heritage-listed buildings in our retail & business centre and neighbouring streets.

Glen Innes Highlands is committed to restoring, maintaining and helping businesses to re-purpose these buildings for new ventures.

The Bank Guest House, located at 320 Grey Street, is a recent example of this with the historic colours preserved on the exterior and the interior bringing elegance and comfort alongside history at every turn with soaring pressed metal ceilings, original polished wood floors and bird’s eye views over the heritage main street.

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Heritage Walk

Walk with history and gaze upon over 60 magnificent heritage buildings in the township of Glen Innes, like the basalt stone courthouse built in 1873… a year after the Adelaide-Darwin Overland Telegraph was completed and seven years before the first Edison-Bell telephone was installed in Sydney. Or the School of Arts building and impressively ornate Kwong Sing and Co department store, both built no more than six years after the hanging of Ned Kelly. Other buildings were going up as NSW bushmen volunteered for the Boer War, Australia planned and then united in a Commonwealth. Several buildings were completed in 1914 when our youth went off to World War 1, in the roaring twenties when they frenetically celebrated peace and in the 1930’s as we weathered the Great Depression.

Pick up your brochure from the Glen Innes Visitor Information Centre or download it here.

Buildings: 63 Time: 2 hours Length: 5.4km

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Town and District

There’s even more to see whilst driving around our town and district – federation and earlier homes, churches built by pioneers, showgrounds dating back to 1877, tranquil villages like Deepwater and Emmaville with a romantic past and reflecting the very essence of rural life. To absorb an impressive showcase of that history, spend time at the Land of the Beardies Museum & Research Centre.