HOUSE, 1 SOLOMON STREET

Statement of Significance

The place is a good example of a stone residence in the Victorian Georgian style, 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 painted stone with painted brick quoining to corners and window and door openings to the walls of the house which has a corrugated iron hipped roof. The bull nosed verandah has decorative timber posts and there are brick additions at the rear 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. Sewerage Diagram Dec 1908 sheet 109 shows a stone building with front and rear verandahs with various timber outbuildings. In 1909-10, this house, then numbered 7 Mary Street (subdivision 3 of Town Lot 807), was a cottage owned and occupied by Sydney Mews. In 1902-03 rate book (east ward) there are two entries for parts of TL 807, one a cottage and one a villa. It is unclear which of these is 1 Solomon Street today.

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