Questa Casa is an historical operating brothel in Western Australia.  

133 Hay Street Kalgoorlie

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A curious cloak of gentility shrouds this frontage; the front belies the friendly interior. This house tells more of the town’s history and social attitudes than all the restored pomp of Kal’s gold-rush grandeur.  Once, all the gates were decorated by under-clad ladies of the night… now most stand empty, a sign of the times.  Known to be operational in the early 1900’s, Questa Casa has had a working life of at least 116 years as a brothel… and continues to age.

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With its world famous corrugated-iron “starting stalls”, Questa Casa is the last of the original brothels built  during Kalgoorlies’ gold-rush era. It, like the others that followed, were subjected to Western Australias’ Containment Policy; an unofficial ‘official‘ government policy which was applied to selected naughty places trading illegally in the face of the WA’s Criminal Code.

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Of all the illegal houses  that constituted Kalgoorlies’ infamous Hay Street, we are the only operating brothel left, and as such, have become one of Kalgoorlies’ ‘must do‘ tours.

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A curious cloak of gentility shrouds this frontage; the front belies the friendly interior. This house tells more of the town’s history and social attitudes than all the restored pomp of Kal’s gold-rush grandeur.  Once all the gates were decorated by under-clad ladies of the night… now most stand empty, a sign of the times.

 

See them, before they vanish into the wastes of gentrification

click here for information on booking a tour

 

 

 

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