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PHOTOGRAPH (COPY): HOUSE, LOT 375 MUELLER (ROBERTS) ROAD, SUBIACO KNOWN AS 'JONES' FOLLY'

c. 1890
Overview

Copy of a sepia photograph of the first brick house in Subiaco, built by John Rowland Jones in 1886. The house features a corrugated iron roof, iron lace on the verandah and a bay window. A well was sunk in the area behind the house before it was built, and was an important facility for settlers and Afghan camel drivers.
Reverse: On back of original: 'taken 1896 Mum, Eva, Dad, Bowen, Frank, Fred, Jack'

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Registration number
cwa-org-43-2000.102
Item type
Width
260 mm
Height or length
205 mm
Year
Statement of significance

First house in Subiaco - historical importance

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