15 Bernard Street, Claremont

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c. 1983

Overview

Photograph of front elevation. Paint peeling from weatherboards. Red iron roof; decorative woodwork to verandah is broken in places. Door and sash windows have sidelights. Enclosed side verandah on right partly obscured by shrub.

Historical information

15 Bernard Street, Claremont sits on a 868 m² lot (aka 34.3 perches or just over a fifth of an acre in the 1900s terminology). Believed to have been built in late 1890s by the manager of a timber company.

Occupied by John Larkey Fenton (1829-1901) and Miss M Fenton (Ladies School) in early 1900s. Frank Weston shown as the owner with 1904 with Margaret Fenton (1835-1907) the occupier. Owned by same family from 1905 until left to 2 sisters in 1945 when they divided it into 2 separate units in which form it remained until sold by auction in March 1990 for $310,000. Cameron family home from 1910-1912.

Restored and extended by Mark Stoney and his wife, Susan Wynn, it was the winner of the 2000 Claremont Civic Design Award for appropriate conservation of a timber dwelling.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--5-276

Item type

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Material

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Contextual information

In 1873 the area of land which Bernard Street traverses was first purchased by Ignatious Boladarus, a migrant who came to Australia with Don Rosendo Salvado's Spanish Benedictines. First blocks of Bernard street were advertised for sale in 1885. Was the street named after prominent local Peter A Gugeri's vineyard St Bernard, unfortunately, we may never know.

Bernard Street
Streets Of Claremont, Town Of Claremont

Keywords

1980s

Place made

Claremont, Western Australia, Australia

Year

c. 1983

Geotag

-31.9839038, 115.7851816
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