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Phillimore Street, Fremantle
Phillimore Street is a street in Fremantle, Western Australia; it runs between Queen Street, outside the Fremantle railway station and Cliff Street. It is the location of a precinct of archaeological interest as well as being located in the Fremantle West End Heritage area. The street includes several heritage buildings: * Falk & Company Warehouse, between Henry and Pakenham Streets, constructed in 1888. * Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, built in 1912. * Fremantle Customs House, corner of Cliff Street, built in 1908. * Fremantle Fire Station, built in 1909. * Fremantle railway station, built in 1907. * Howard Smith Building, corner of Mouat Street, built in 1900. * P&O Building, built in 1903. * Robert Harper Building, built in 1890 * Wilhelmsen House Wilhemsen House, also known as the Elders Building, Elder Building, Barwil House and the Dalgety & Co. Building, is a heritage building located at 11 Cliff Street on the corner of Phillimore Street in the port cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle
Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo. Prior to British settlement, the indigenous Noongar people inhabited the area for millennia, and knew it by the name of Walyalup ("place of the woylie")."(26/3/2018) Inaugural Woylie Festival starts tomorrow" fremantle.gov.au. Retrieved 5 July 2020. Visited by in the 1600s, Fremantle was the first area settled by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle Chamber Of Commerce
The Fremantle Chamber of Commerce is a business and commerce advocacy association in Fremantle, Western Australia. History In 1853 the Western Australian Chamber of Commerce was founded. In 1873 the Chamber of Commerce requested and was granted land by the State Government land upon which to develop a headquarters. The name of the Chamber was altered to the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce. The first meeting of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce was held on 29 May 1873 at Maloney's Hotel, with Mr. William Dalgety Moore serving as its first chairman (although the Chamber's own information disagrees with this, and suggests that it was William Marmion). Nothing was done with the Chamber's landholdings until the block was exchanged for a site on Phillimore Street, adjacent to the Fremantle Fire Station, which had become free when the railway yards moved to Midland. The Chamber originally met at premises in Henry Street before the Philmore Street premises were constructed. The curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmsen House
Wilhemsen House, also known as the Elders Building, Elder Building, Barwil House and the Dalgety & Co. Building, is a heritage building located at 11 Cliff Street on the corner of Phillimore Street in the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia. The building dates from the gold rush boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is of historic significance. Description The building is of Federation Free Classical style, containing French Renaissance elements with a skyline of a tower, gables. turrets and ornamental chimneys. The dominant feature on the skyline is the circular, domed, dragon's scale copper clad, turret. The general layout of the building is a U-shape with the open end of the U facing away from Cliff Street. It rests on a wide foundation of concrete, above which is Melbourne bluestone. Between the base and the first floor is Cottesloe stone; above this is constructed from brick and cement dressings. When constructed the building ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harper Building
The Robert Harper Building, also known as Jebsens, is a heritage-listed building located at 49 Phillimore Street, on the corner of Pakenham Street in the Fremantle West End Heritage area. It is one of many commercial buildings constructed in Fremantle during the gold boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The two storey building was constructed in 1890 for the Fremantle branch of Robert Harper and Co., a manufacturing and distribution business. It was designed in the Inter-War Stripped Classical style. It was a built with a combination of offices and warehouse space, but comprised only offices. There is a basement level partially below ground. The building was gutted by fire in 1922, causing between £40,000 and £50,000 worth of damage. The building was classified by the National Trust in 1974 and placed permanently on the Register of the National Estate in 1978. In 1976 a development application was made to build a 9-storey office block on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P&O Building (Fremantle)
The former P&O Building, also known as the Australian Union Steamship Navigation Company building, is a heritage-listed building in Phillimore Street in the west end of Fremantle, Western Australia. Following the opening of the deep water port in Fremantle in 1897, many shipping and transport companies acquired land in the area built offices and warehouses. The Australian Union Steamship Navigation Company acquired land along Phillimore Street and constructed the existing building there in 1903. Its principal architect was Charles Lancelot Oldham, who designed the two-storey, brick and stone structure in the Federation Free Classical style with an imposing facade and arches around a large central pediment. The ground level has a recessed colonnade entrance porch while the upper storey has a recessed colonnade arcade with balustrading. There are horizontal shadow lines on the ground floor, with a balustrade parapet and a triangular stuccoed central pediment. The initials AU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouat Street
Mouat Street is a street in Fremantle, Western Australia. Historically, the name was often spelled as Mouatt Street. It is a one-way street, running from Phillimore Street in the north to Marine Terrace in the south. It runs parallel to and in between Cliff Street to the west and Henry Street to the east. Along the way it intersects High Street and Croke Street. Mouat Street was named after lieutenant Mouat, of . New kerbing was laid along Mouat Street in 1890. It is the location of a number of historical buildings: the Adelaide Steamship House, the Strelitz Buildings, the former Tarantella Night Club and the Howard Smith Building. There are also several buildings owned and used by the Fremantle campus of the University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Smith Building
The former Howard Smith Building is a heritage listed building located at 1-3 Mouat Street on the corner with Phillimore Street in the Fremantle West End Heritage area. It was one of many commercial buildings constructed in Fremantle during the gold boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Construction of the building commenced in 1900. The building is three storeys tall and is made from brick and stone. It has zero setback from the footpath, the ground floor is stone and the upper floors are painted tuck point brick with engaged pilasters with an ashlar effect to the first floor. There is a decorative parapet with two tall and highly decorative pediments. Howard Smith Limited operated primarily as a shipping company with passenger services extended to Fremantle in 1893. The building is currently occupied by the School of Nursing and Midwifery of Notre Dame University. The University spent 2.78 million on refurbishing both the Howard Smith and the neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle Fire Station
Fremantle Fire Station, in Phillimore Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, was the second fire station built for the Fremantle Fire Brigade and was opened in 1909. It was designed by architectural firm Cavanagh and Cavanagh and constructed by J. Lake. The fire station was designed to house four horse-drawn vehicles, including the district's ambulance, which was also operated by the fire brigade. During World War II the building was taken over by the US military for use as Marine quarters. In the early 1970s the accommodation at the fire station was inadequate and the Fire Brigade Board wanted to demolish the building, to allow the building of a larger station suitable for vehicles. This proposal was met with opposition from The Fremantle Society and the Fremantle Council. In 1975 the Fire Brigade built a new building on railway land next door, and in 1977 the old building vested in the City of Fremantle. The building is listed on the Register of the National Estate The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle Customs House
The Old Customs House is a building in Fremantle, Western Australia that was built in 1908 to house the main branch of the Customs Department of Western Australia. It is one of only a handful of extant Customs Houses in the state; others are in Albany, Broome, Cossack, and Geraldton. History It was built on the corner of Cliff Street and Phillimore Streets on the site of the old railway station, a location selected by William Lyne (and recommended by the Fremantle Citizens League). William Hedges also lobbied in support of the location. An earlier idea of renovating the old Post Office building for Customs' use was scrapped. On 18 September 1907, the state government allocated £7,500 (of the total projected cost of £10,000) to be spent on construction in the following year. The architectural plans were prepared by the State's Public Works Department under the supervision of the Principal Architect, Hillson Beasley. The building construction was undertaken by a local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakenham Street, Fremantle
Pakenham Street is a street in Fremantle, Western Australia, in the Fremantle West End Heritage area. It runs between Phillimore Street and Collie Street, the main cross intersection being with High Street. The street is named after the third lieutenant aboard , H. Pakenham. Significant heritage buildings have been located on the corner of Pakenham and High Streets. In the 1920s Pakenham Street was widened following railway land being released. Places of interest along the street include: * Pioneer Park, Fremantle * Fremantle Trades Hall, corner of Collie Street * Fowler's Warehouse * Oceanic Hotel, corner of Collie Street * Central Chambers, corner of High Street * Tolley & Company Warehouse The Tolley & Company Warehouse, also known as the Tolley Bond Store and the Tolley & Company Building, is a heritage building located at 1 Pakenham Street in the Fremantle West End Heritage area. It dates from the gold rush boom period in the ... * Robert Harper Building, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Freo may refer to: * Freyja, the Norse goddess * Fremantle, a port town in Western Australia ** Fremantle Football Club The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Street, Fremantle
Henry Street is a street in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was named after John Henry, second lieutenant of . It was developed very early in the history of the Swan River Colony with licensed premises being located as early as 1833. Henry Street has seen significant funeral processions pass along it on their way to the Fremantle Cemetery. It has some significant historical buildings, including Falk & Company Warehouse, Fowler's Warehouse, Fremantle Customs House, the Marich Buildings, the Moore's Building, the Bateman Hardware Bateman Hardware was the earliest hardware shop established in Western Australia (and the second-oldest commercial enterprise of any sort), and until its demise in the 1980s was the longest-running. The business was founded by John Bateman in 1 ... building and the Orient Hotel. 33 Henry Street was a regular meeting place for a range of Fremantle associations. See also References Streets in Fremantle Articles containing video cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
