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PRINT - HORSES WITH BUGGY OUTSIDE CLAREMONT CONGREGATIONAL HALL

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B & W copy print of two horses with buggy outside Claremont Congregational Hall. White picket fence behind buggy. Man and child seated in buggy and a blurred image of man holding one horse at the head.

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Prior to building the hall, the congregation met under trees near the present Council chambers or Mr Holme's butcher shop. Claremont Congregational Church hall was built in 1895 by WA's first Australian born architect, Henry Stirling Trigg. The bell hung in the Bell Tower. The church was built in 1906 in Federation romanesque style with dressed limestone blocks with brick quoins. The hall continued as a place of worship until 1977. Was then in commercial use as: an antique gallery, a ceramic tile showroom, a wedding chapel, a floor rug showroom, an art gallery

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