HOUSE, 25 SOLOMON STREET

Statement of Significance

The place is a modest example of a timber framed residence representing the expansion of Fremantle in the gold boom period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The place contributes to a substantially intact late nineteenth and early twentieth century streetscape close to the centre of Fremantle.

Physical Description

Single storey timber framed and weatherboard clad and tile (not original) house set back and below the level of the pavement and sits sideways on the site. Detailed inspection not able to be carried out due to location of the house.

History

Solomon Street was originally known as Mary Street, gazetted in 1905. It changed its name in 1951/52 to honour Elias Solomon, a Fremantle merchant and politician who built a house and lived in this street. Solomon was a Town Councillor 1878-1880, 1883-1886, Mayor in 1889-1891, 1896-98 and 1900-01. He was a state parliamentarian, MLA for the seat of South Fremantle 1892-1901, then transferred to Federal Politics with a seat in the House of Representatives from 1901-1903. Solomon was the first Member for Fremantle in the Federal Government. This house used to be 51/53 Mary Street. Sewerage Diagram Dec 1908 (sheet 109) shows a timber dwelling set back towards the rear of the property, with a verandah running down the side of the building together with a smaller verandah at the rear. There is also a galvanized iron outbuilding, a well and a water closet. In the 1909-10 rate book there is a cottage subdivision 60 of 811-814 but it is numbered no.51, owned by Betsy Calder Harwood, occupied by Mary C Barlow. It is unclear if this is the one shown as no.53 on the 1908 sewerage map.

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