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The Atlas Building (also known as the Phoenix Building) is a five-storey building located at the corner of St. Georges Terrace and the Esplanade, Perth, Western Australia.

Plans for construction began on 9 July 1929 as an office for the British insurance company and the building's namesake, "The Atlas Assurance Company", which in turned was named after the Greek god Atlas.

A statue of Atlas supporting the world once crowned the top of the building as the company's logo. The statue was eventually removed at some point in 1969 due to ongoing maintenance issues. The statue still exists on the ground floor however, and there are plans to build a replica of the statue which will soon be placed on top of the building.

Opened 28 April 1931 by Governor William Campion. The West Australian at the time deemed it "a handsome addition to the architecture of Perth".

Architect Margaret Pitt Morison (WA's first female architect)

Ninety-five per cent. of the material used in the building is Australian, and 80 per cent. West Australian.

Notable Occupants: Women's Australian Nation Service (WANS), Perth Road Board, Australian National Committee of the United Nations, Perth Junior Chamber of Commerce and the A.B. Webb School of Art. Currently it is the location of the Museum of Perth.

During WWII, it was sturdy enough to be considered a reasonably safe shelter in the event of an air raid.

Listed as a WA hertiage site on 9th February 1996 as a rare example of a building created during the 1930s made up of mostly Western Australian materials.

Djh9406 (talk) 03:43, 12 June 2018 (UTC) Just a little source dump of info I'll be using on a future article.