City Love Companions

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.

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.

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

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.