DUPLEX, 52 SOLOMON STREET

Statement of Significance

The place is a good example of an attached pair of residences dating from the period of expansion of Fremantle in 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

Duplex 52-54 Solomon Street is a single storey rendered attached pair which are divided by a masonry firewall and have a corrugated iron hipped roof extending over the verandah. There are four brick and rendered chimneys with corbelling extant

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. The duplex 52-54 Solomon Street used to be 108-110 Mary St. Sewerage Diagram no.61 June 1908 shows a brick pair with front verandah with an attached timber structure at the rear and a galvanized iron structure attached to that. There are closets and galvanized iron outbuildings at the far rear. The 1913-14 rate book shows Town Lot 792 as a pair of cottages owned by Margaret Jane Shurman, occupied by Joseph William Dunkerton (108) and William John Tout (110).

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