27 Riley Road, Claremont

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1961

Overview

Front and side view of the house and front garden at 27 Riley Road, Claremont.

A building known as 'The Camp' can be seen behind the house on right of photograph.

Historical information

27 Riley Road, Claremont has a land size of 1,012 m² (aka 40 perches or a quarter of acre in the 1900s terminology). The house was built in 1940 and has 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The house was built for Mary Horne Douglas (1905-1987), after her marriage in 1937 to Bernard James Bennecke (1905-1956), by her father William Selby Douglas (1865-1940).

The 'Camp' was a shack probably used during the 1910s and early 1920s as the kitchen for Public Works Department employees while they installed a gas pipeline and other amenities in the surrounding streets.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--5-294-a

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Contextual information

The Anglican Church was originally granted 100 acres (40ha) in Claremont in 1873. Swan Location 907 was created in 1886 and the resized block, now 40 acres (16ha), was granted to the West Australian Synod of the Anglican Church. Part of this land was subdivided into quarter acre housing blocks and advertised as the Glebe Estate in 1896. The Estate was bounded by Bay Road to the west, Alice Road (now Melvista Road) to the north, Stone Road to the east and Goldsmith Road at the south. Riley Road was named after Anglican Archbishop Charles Owen Leaver Riley (1854-1929).

Riley Road
Streets Of Claremont, Town Of Claremont

Keywords

1960s

Place made

Claremont, Western Australia, Australia

Year

1961

Geotag

-31.989534796891, 115.79093775423
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