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25376 Duke Street Heritage Area

History

A Certificate of Title for Perth Suburban Lot 277 and part Perth Suburban Lot 276 (totalling 5 acres and 18 perches) was issued in the name of The Intercolonial Investment Land and Building Company Ltd on 18 September 1901. This area was subsequently laid out as a new subdivision, including ten building allotments facing Duke Street (Lots 13 to 17 and 18 to 22 of Plan 2352). In 1903 the Subiaco Rates Books listed the owner of Lot 21 (and Lot 22) as A. Hodgkinson, at which time the site was still vacant. A house, occupied by Ada Hodgkinson (widow), had been built by 1905, but it was not until 23 October 1906 that the title for Lots 21 and 22 was transferred into her name. Early Metropolitan Sewerage Scheme Plans show that Mrs Hodginson had built a small galvanized iron and timber cottage, set well back from the Duke Street frontage, abutting the eastern boundary. Ada Hodgkinson lived here until c.1913, after which there was a relatively high turn-over of occupants, with eight different residents listed in the Post Office Directories from 1914 to 1949. By 1951 the property was jointly owned by two brothers-in-law, Sam Rifici and Domenic Errichetti and from that time it was rented by a newly arrived migrant family by the name of Evangelisti. The rent was a very high proportion of the family’s income, so for some time 3 Union Street was shared with another migrant family who had arrived on the same ship. Mr Evangelisti later purchased the house and undertook considerable maintenance to replace termite damaged timbers – although it still remained a very simple and basic cottage. The original cottage was demolished and the present house built by one of Mr Evangelisti’s children in 1981.

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