Robert Henry Burnside Downes was born in 1861. He was an engineer, architect and surveyor who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in ...
Architectural draughtsman, watercolourist, illustrator and teacher of technical drawing. He was a member of the West Australian Society of Arts from 1905-1910.
In Coolgardie he designed the Turkish Baths, the Jewish Synagogue, the Presbyterian Church, the Mechanics Institute and worked on the Exhibition Building. He was a ...