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House, 1 Turner Street was built in 1908 for local businessman, W H Kaeshagen, manager of the Narrogin Trading and Agency Company. It was designed by prominent architect Eustace Cohen and it was a fine and unusual example of his work.

Physical Description

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History

Turner Street is named for local surveyor, G R Turner, who lived in Bunbury in the late 1880s and built the first brick house in the street.

House, 1 Turner Street was built in 1908 for local businessman, W H Kaeshagen, manager of the Narrogin Trading and Agency Company.

Kaeshagen (b 1878; d 1968) was the founding manager and director of the Narrogin Trading Company. He emigrated from South Australia in 1894 at the beginning of the Gold Boom and established his business in Narrogin, Bunbury and Williams. Kaeshagen lived in Bunbury for 53 years.

House, 1 Turner Street was designed by local architect, Eustace Cohen, the house was a fine, single storey timber and iron residence, with a distinctive ‘heart’ cut out pattern on the timber verandah balustrades.

Eustace Cohen (born London, 1881) was articled to Thomas Lockwood and Sons at Chester before working for Guy Dawber. He emigrated to Western Australia due to ill health in 1904 and set up practice in Bunbury and Busselton (1906-1913). He moved to Perth in 1914, where he formed a partnership with Joseph Eales, trading as Eales and Cohen. Cohen was instrumental in bringing the Arts and Crafts movement to Western Australia. The earliest examples of his work in Bunbury and Busselton display his interpretation of vernacular homes in the Arts and Crafts manner.

At one stage, the house was occupied by the Medical and Health Services Department as a medical officer’s residence. James Grady, initial administrator of the Bunbury Regional Hospital, was a resident at one time.

The house was demolished c 1980. One of two large palm trees that framed the house remains at the southern end of the extension to the Senior Citizen’s Building.

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Condition

DEMOLISHED except for one prominent palm tree (Washingtonia) which is situated in the Car Park of Senior Citizens Centre.

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