PHOTOGRAPH: HOUSE AT 96 BARKER ROAD, SUBIACO

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Overview

A colour photograph featuring a large red brick house with two chimneys, a green corrugated iron roof and bullnose return verandah with white wooden posts. One gable on the left of the photograph has 'Ercildoune' in relief letters above the verandah roof. The corner of the house features a crenelated corner parapet with three garlands decorating the lower part. A wooden fence, with three horizontal panels at the front of the house holds a white sign 'Ercildoune Lodge'. The house was used as a C-Class hospital, which closed in 1988.
REVERSE: Handwritten in black ink '96 Barker duplicate'.

Historical information

''One of the earliest residents Charles Scrymgour (1839-1931), an accountant and his wife Maria moved to 96 Barker Road in 1907 where Maria sadly died. Charles stayed on in the house which he named ‘Ercildoune’, with one of his five daughters. The name Ercildoune is associated with Scotland which may have been Scrmygour’s origin. Charles Scrymgour relocated to the house next door at 98 Barker Road in 1913 and stayed on in that smaller property until his death in 1931.''
Heritage Council of WA - Places Database (dplh.wa.gov.au)

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1990.445.2

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Cardboard

Statement of significance

local and social history

Subiaco Museum

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