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The oldest surviving building of Wagga Wagga is a little slab cottage in Gardiner Street dating back to the 1830s or early 1840s. Also of note are:

• Wagga South Public School in Edward Street (1890-91 and 1900)
• The railway station (1880-81) with its award-winning gardens
• Union Club Hotel (1851-58), the only old building in town to retain its original lacework verandah

Railway Station

 

The visitor's centre at the corner of Tarcutta and Morrow Streets has a pamphlet outlining a walk which takes in some of the City's historic buildings. Some of the buildings mentioned in it are:

Cross Street

• St Andrew's Presbyterian Church and manse (c.1890) this reflects the the Gothic Revival architectural style and has a particularly fine spire

Church Street

• St John's Church of England was begun in 1876 according to a design of William Blacket, although extensive alterations and additions have greatly changed its character. The main window is from an English church and of an unknown age. One of the memorial tablets is to Corporal John Edmondson who was posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross in 1941 for an act of bravery which saved an officer's life at Tobruk

• St Michael's Catholic Cathedral was erected in two stages. The original structure (1885-87) served as a parish church and the second stage (1922-25) converted it into a large Victorian Gothic sandstone cathedral. Some highlights are so me beautifully crafted marble in the altar and the Edwardian presbytery, the 'Bishop's House' (1910) which has some impressive timber detailing around the verandahs, bay windows and gables

Fitzmaurice Street

• The Court House is an outstanding Edwardian courthouse complex (1900). With its massive square clock tower belltower, cupolas, decorative iron work and cedar joinery and fittings it is considered one of the finest of its type in Australia

• The National Bank  (1885) and post office (1886-88) buildings are two fine buildings in the Classical Revival style which also make significant contributions to the cityscape

Baylis Street 

• Council Chambers are set in the Civic Gardens, built in 1881, though they have had sympathetic modern a dditions. Acress the road from the Council Chambers is the Victory Memorial Gardens (1928) on the banks of the Wollundry Lagoon. Here, there is a sunken garden, a 'senses garden' for the blind, a children's play area, picnic facilities, swans, duck, geese, waterfowl, fish and tortoises