Duplex, 13-15 Lindsay St, Perth

Parent Place or Precinct

11263 Beaufort, Lindsay & Money Street Precinct

Statement of Significance

The place has interest as a modestly detailed Federation Queen Anne style of residential building.

The place forms an integral part of a group of residential buildings and contributes to the historic character of the area.

The place reflects the expansion and development of residential and commercial buildings on the city fringes during the rapid population increase of the 1890’s gold boom and the
early years of the twentieth century.

The duplex is a good example of the scale and form of residences built for tradesmen and their families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Physical Description

Two adjoining single storey brick residence with duo-pitch roof clad in metal tiles. Half-timbered gables to front. Face brick chimney with rendered corbelling. The front elevation is pointed limestone with arched entries to a porch accessing the front door.

A bull nose verandah across the front elevation is supported on decorative timber posts with a timber detail joining the posts. Triple pane sash windows are located in the front elevation of each residence. The boundary of the lot is defined with a simple timber picket fencing and a change of paving, recycled brick joining cement paver’s in the area of the former verandah.

History

Lindsay (Parker) and Money Street were established sometime after 1880, with Parker Street being renamed in 1895. During the mid-1890s, settlement in the area was scattered between Beaufort and Money Street, with large areas remaining vacant.

The 1890’s gold boom, which resulted in a dramatic increase in the city’s population, resulted in this area becoming more densely settled. Various types of cottages, and a few commercial premises, which provided a range of good and services, began to appear
along the streets during the latter half of the 1890’s.

Over time the area also attracted a large number of migrants who settled and established businesses. The Chinese were amongst the earliest settlers and apart from their market gardens, were notable for the number of laundries they operated. By the mid-1930’s, Italian and Greek migrants were settling in the district, to be followed in the post Second World War years, by various groups from Europe and Asia. These migrants' groups helped to create the distinctive cultural diversity that has become synonymous with Northbridge.

Previous research has determined that in 1896, medical practitioner George Frederick McWilliams purchased former Lot 119 to Lot 601 (former Lot 122) on Lindsay Street. In 1902 Cottesloe contractor, Herbert Charles Pitman purchased Lot 601 from McWilliams, which was transferred to Martin Luther Lloyd in October of the same year. The duplex at No. 13 – 25 Lindsay Street were constructed during Pitman’s ownership and first appear in the City of Perth Rate Books in 1905. The first tenants were Ernest Joseph Graham, clerk in No. 13 and W. McKinley, baker in No. 15. It is possible that McKinley was employed in H.C. Moore’s bakery. Ernest Graham lived at No.13 until c.1912. Later occupants at No.15 Lindsay Street were Herbert Yates (No.15, 1911 – 1916) and Charles Cameron (No. 13, 1920 – 1925). In 1929, the title to No. 13 – 15 Lindsay Street was transferred to Bertha May Smith and the place continued to be rented out.

In 1933, James Parker and his son, Roland farmer of ‘Grassdale’ in York purchased the property. Tenants in 1935 were Alice Lancaster (No.13) and Rose Mulqueeney (No.15) and in 1942, Mrs Neville Marsh and Mrs A. Riley occupied the respective premises. In 1949, Anton Martinovich an agricultural labourer and Croatian migrant acquired 13 – 15 Lindsay Street. The Martinovich family carried out a number of alterations to the property, including the enclosure of the two front verandahs in 1953 and the construction of new toilets to the rear in 1989. In 2001, Anka Martinovich, Anton’s sister-in-law continued to occupy No.
15 while No. 13 was tenanted. In 2012, restoration works, alterations and additions to the existing building were undertaken including demolition of the rear lean-to and enclosed sleep-out front verandah and construction of a single storey addition to the rear of the building and new hipped bullnose verandah with timber posts, restoration of the face brickwork and installation of new zincalume roofing.

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