East & Ashby Complex

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Mount Hawthorn Scout Hall

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House, 77 East St, Mount Hawthorn

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The property is three grouped dwellings on a 375.9sqm lot. The property has three bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, water closet, dining room and lounge room. There has been an extension to the rear of the property.

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Menzies Park

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Menzies Park was created in the 1940s to make up for a deficit in public open space in the area of Mount Hawthorn, south of Scarborough Beach Road, in recognition of planning standards promoted by the City Beautiful movement under the leadership of W E Bold, the long standing Town Clerk of the City of Perth.

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Menzies Park is a comparatively open flat grassed parkland area, with facilities for sporting and recreational activities. It was created from residential lots in the 1940s, by the City of Perth, to make up for the shortfall in open space in the area south of Scarborough Beach Road. It remains a valued asset for the Mount Hawthorn community.

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The area now known as Menzies Park was part of the Ambleside Estate established in 1899. The whole estate was divided into residential lots with no allowance for parks or green spaces. None of the subdivisions of the Mount Hawthorn area south of Scarborough Beach Road had made allowances for parks. The City of Perth acquired the land and created Menzies Park in 1929. The land was designated Swan Location 3239. The park was gazetted Reserve 20065 for recreation on 22 March 1929 and was first listed as a 'public reserve' in Wise's Post Office Directoriesin 1930. It is thought to have been named for a serviceman who was awarded the Victoria Cross, but no such person could be found amongst the list of Australian winners. It is also unlikely to have been named after Robert Gordon Menzies, Australia's longest serving Prime Minister, as he was only elected to Federal Parliament the year before (1928). Clubroom and changeroom facilities were constructed at Menzies Park in the latter half of the twentieth century. The park has a children's playground which was upgraded in 2005/06 but was torched by vandels on 31 January 2007. The town offered a reward of $1,00 for any information which would lead to a conviction. The pavilion has a capacity of 60 persons and kitchen facilities. It is here that the Mount Hawthorn Precinct Group (Incorporated on 18 November 2002) holds it monthly meetings. The park is also an approved dog exercise area which allows owners to let their dogs off their leads subjcet to sports being played there. On 3 March 1995, the Reserve was cancelled for a Crown Grant in Trust to the newly formed Town of Vincent. The Town of Vincent was created following the division of the City of Perth into the Towns of Victoria Park, Cambridge and Vincent as well as the remainder of the City of Perth in 1994/1995.

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House, 65 Ellesmere Street, Mount Hawthorn

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Stirling Police Station, Quarters (fmr) & Associated Structures

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House, 138 Fairfield St, Mount Hawthorn

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The property is a single detached residential house on a 445m2 block. The property provides approx 117 sq meters of living area, including a kitchen/dining, lounge room, bathroom, laundry, water closet and 2 bedrooms. The property is full masonry construction with a terracotta tiled roof.

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The house, at 77 Fairfield Street, is a fine and representative example of a Federation Queen Anne bungalow that has been adapted and sympathetically extended to suit contemporary accommodation standards.

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The single storey dwelling has a gambrel hipped roof over the main dwelling. A separate bull nose verandah covers what remains of the perimeter verandah. The front is elevated and on a face limestone retaining wall. The front brick steps are sideways against the recessed section of the verandah. The verandah is supported by turned timber posts. The front façade was originally stepped with twin gables above the facetted bay windows. The central facet has a bachelor window and each side has a slender double hung window. The walls are face brickwork. Chimneys are brick with extensive moulded stucco. In 2001 the place was extensively and sympathetically extended using steeping and continuation of roof forms, gable and window bay details to make the extension as seamless as possible. Elevated on the site. Concrete rendered retaining wall forms a fence at street level, top is ground level in the property. Lawns with shrubs. Extensive additions. Concrete verandahs. Colorbond roofs.

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The first subdivision of the area took place in 1887 and then a syndicate consisting of E.H. Wittenoom, J.A. Hicks ad C.L.W. Clifton purchased it in the late 1890s. It is believed that when they subdivided it in 1903, James Hicks called his portion Hawthorn Estate as he had recently visited Hawthorne in Victoria. Later residents were unhappy with his choice and changed it to the more fashionable (at that time), Mount Hawthorn. Fairfield Street, north of Scarborough Beach Road, was established as part of the Hawthorn Estate. It was known as Mosey Street until 1915. There were very few residents in this period and no street numbers were allocated. One resident, Charles R. Jourdan, gave his occupation as 'poultry farmer'. In the 1916 Wise's Post Office Directories it is listed as Fairchild Street and in the 1917 edition as Fairfield. It was not until 1917 that street numbers were allocated. No. 77 is situated on the corner of Fairfield and Woodstock streets and Unity Lane runs along its western boundary. In 1917 when the numbers were first listed in the Directories, Peter Menzies was living at No. 77 and in the 1922 City of Perth rate books he is listed as the owner/occupier of No. 77 (which was described as 'house & ground') and the owner of No. 75 next door. Menzies remained as the occupant of No. 77 until 1927. In 1928 the house was listed in the Directories as '˜vacant' and in 1929 it was occupied by Mrs W. Wittmer. A building permit was issued for Lots 29-30 in 1924, the permit being issued to E. Kennon. Robert T. Graham was listed as the resident in the 1930s to at least 1940 but by 1949 Mrs Margaret R. Nicholson resided there. In 2001 Lots 1 and 2 were amalgamated and permission was granted for alterations and additions to the subject place. These were carried out by Fewster & Stone. The work restored the residence and it was considerably enlarged as a result. A swimming pool was also added in 2002 on the Woodstock Street side.

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St Peter's Church & Rectory

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Mount Hawthorn Hospital

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Hawthorn Hospital through its continuous operation demonstrates the development of a hospital and health services in suburban Mount Hawthorn, from private hospital to public hospital and later to permanent care. Alfred Kessell house was acquired by his sisters who founded and operated the hospital until taken over by the Health Department in 1957.

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The hospital comprises a group of interconnected single storey buildings which vary in style from bungalow to contemporary and utilitarian buildings. The styles of the buildings are typical of their period but have been adapted with additions and changes. Materials are commonplace - painted brick, corrugated iron, asbestos and timber. The original building was a single bungalow form with a hipped roof and separate verandah, which was adapted with gabled and hipped extensions and extended with annexes in contemporary and utilitarian styles. The Flinders Street setback has plantings and garden. The Woodstock Street frontage is hard surface car parks. Extensive

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The subject site was situated on the portion of Swan Location 724 and being Lots. 99, 100, 101, 102, 103 and 104. Woodstock Street was formerly known as William Street, which is first listed in the Wise's Post Office Directories in 1909. The subject place is listed as occupied by A. Colenso Kessell 'Alameda' in that year however no street number was located. A. Colenso Kessell is listed at the subject place until 1915 when C. A. Mayhall took up the residency. In 1917, William Street in Mount Hawthorn changed its name to Woodstock Street and the subject place was occupied by William Angle. William Angle stayed at residency until 1919. Alfred C. Kessell is then listed at the subject place between 1919 and 1933. Following the death of Alfred C. Kessell in 1933, sisters Alma Jean and Irene May Thomas acquired the house. The sisters were both trained nurses and they converted the house to a hospital, named Hawthorn Private Hospital. Street numbers was first allocated to the subject place as Nos. 14-16 in 1945. In 1947, the subject site was transferred to Silverton Angelo as the sole proprietor. Mrs. Frances Thomas, a relative of Alma Jean and Irene May Thomas, revealed the early history of the Hawthorn Private Hospital in an oral history interview. According to Frances, the subject place was built as a five-bedroom house when John Albert Thomas, the father of Alma Jean and Irene May Thomas, bought the house. After the subject house was converted into a maternity section of the hospital, an addition was constructed later to accommodate a general section. The hospital was also equipped with an operating theatre and an incinerator. A Metropolitan Water Supply Sewerage & Drainage Department (MWSSD) Plan dated 1928 indicates that the subject site comprised two brick buildings divided by an open passage. Another outbuilding was located to the north of the main buildings, with an incinerator to its east. In 1935, the hospital was extended with the construction of a separate building, built as a cottage style hospital with attic accommodation for the resident staff. The addition also featured an office, a bathroom and theatre. A new kitchen was constructed to the rear of the existing kitchen. In 1936, other additions were erected for sisters Thomas, which included a sun porch, garage and front room. An outbuilding, which was purpose built as a kitchen, was added to the western building in 1936. An extended portion was also built to the eastern building in that year which contained a ward and two bedrooms. At the same time, a wood and iron open verandah was erected at the rear of the existing outdoor kitchen. In 1941, an iron room was added to the outdoor kitchen by the builder A. E. Hoskins and in 1943, a convalescent area was built. The Hospital was taken over by the Medical Department in 1957, and leased out as a private hospital. It was leased to Melville Jeisman, as Matron/Administrator, until 1963. The place was then established as an annex of Royal Perth Hospital. Hawthorn ceased to take on maternity cases, these instead being transferred to Osborne Park Hospital, and W. Williams, Managing Secretary of the Osborne Park Hospital, became Managing Secretary of Hawthorn Hospital in addition to his existing role. Hawthorn Hospital was completely renovated in the mid-1960s. The Building Licence Plan dated 1965 shows that the two existing buildings were joined with an administration block and a new wing which accommodated a kitchen and scullery was constructed to the rear of the western building. A nurse's quarters was also built adjacent to the hospital. The Quarters were underutilised, except for a brief period in the 1960s, and in the early 1970s, they were allocated to Community Health Services. In March 1979, Hawthorn Hospital became a Permanent Care Unit, its first patients being transferred from the Extended Care Unit at Osborne Park Hospital. The building was used for aged care for some times and has been vacant since it closed in 2004. In 2006, the Council of Town of Vincent resolved to grant conditional approval to the proposed Change of Use from Hospital to Institutional Building and Associated Additions and Alterations to existing premises. The subject place was renamed as '˜Hawthorn House' and has been operational since December 2006 as an intermediate mental health care facility. Planning approval for the site was for a period of three years, and subsequently '˜Hawthorn House' is anticipated to cease operation by November 2009.

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Shop with attached house

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The shop with attached house, at 45 Hobart St is a fine example of an Interwar Art Deco style corner shop that has continued to operate as a corner store and provides a focal point in the local community. It was located at the heart of the Merredin Park Estate that was developed by the Land & Building Company of Sydney at a time of economic depression in the eastern states.

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The single storey shop is assymmetrical about the truncated corner, with different length facades to each street frontage. The main shop entry is recessed on the truncated corner and that is flanked by similar shopfronts. The main street frontage has another shop front with a recessed entry. The suspended boxed canopy extends around the shopfronts but does not include the skillion wall on the secondary street. The parapet is distinctive art deco with recessed horizontal banding contrasted by vertical stepped parapet elements on the truncated corner and central on the Hobart Street frontage. Zero setbacks to street. Security mesh over shopfronts

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The Mount Hawthorn area was first subdivided for urban development in 1887. It was in the late 1890's that a syndicate formed by C.L.W Clifton (Undersecretary for Lands), James A. Hicks and E.H wittenoom (laterMinister in WA Government and Agent General in London) purchased the land. James Hick called his portion 'Hawthorne Estate' after the area of Melbounre, which he had apparently recently visited. Some of the purchasers were later dissatisified with the name and lobbied to have it called 'Mount Hawthorn', as the use of the word 'Mount' was fashionable at the time. Hobart Street was part of a further subdivision, the Merredin Park Estate which was developed by the Intercolonial Investment Land & Building Company Ltd of Sydney, and was released in three stages. The subject block was part of Stage 9, situated on Swan Locations 658 and 660. The land was advertised as 'splendid mansion and villa sites' and it was offered for sale by public auction on 25 June 1901, the auction being held at the Mechanics Institute in Perth. The auctioneer was James Gardiner and the terms were 10 per cent deposit and the balance in eight quarterly payments without interest. A five per cent discount was offered for cash. A number of lots were sold prior to the June 1901 auction but the subject place was not among them. There were no residents listed for the street in the 1905 Post Office Directory, and only four in 1910. In 1913 a Baptist church was listed and in 1914 the North Perth Municipal Yards and Pound were shown as being in roughly the same area as the subject place but on the opposite side of the road. These were run for many years by poundkeeper, Thomas Walker. A house is shown on the corner of Hobart and Auckland streets in the MWSSDD sewerage plans of the 1920s. The house is set back from the street corner. In 1929 Stephen Carslaw was listed as residing at the house and he was still there until at least 1935. In the 1930s (circa 1934) a large corner shop was added to the front of the residence. It was not uncommon in Vincent at that time for people to build shops at the front of their existing homes or alongside and in particular along the busier streets, such as Oxford Street. The first business listed as 45A Hobart Street was C.Carter, grocer and in 1949 it was a mixed business known as Phillips Store.s At this time Thomas Maynard, a butcher was listed for No. 45. It is not known whether he operated a butcher's shop there or resided there. In later years, the shop at No. 45A was known as Hobart Deli. In the 1950's it was run by Stanley Morris, who had emigrated from Burma in October 1948 with his wife and six children. A seventh child, Maureen, was born after they arrived in Australia and the family moved to No. 110 Loftus Street, Leederville. Mrs Morris ran the shop in Hobart Street while Stanley, a qualified engineer, worked at the Taxation Department. The delicatessen was continuing to operate in 2007. The shop is known as the Hobart Deli and continues to operate.

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Mount Hawthorn Masonic Hall

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Baptist Church

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Mount Hawthorn Baptist Church demonstrates the stripped Federation Gothic style typical of non-conformist denominational building in the Federation and the Interwar period. The place is a local landmark and contributes to the streetscape through its corner location. It has been socially significant for the Baptist community and for the local community.

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The modest church, in a stripped Gothic style, has a gable roof, pointed arched buttresses and an entrance porch to which modern extensions have been added. The windows have Gothic arched headers and there are buttresses along the sides of the building. The brickwork has been painted. There have been two campaigns of hall extensions in different styles and finishes. The church is located close to both streets and there are some plantings on the Hobart Street frontage. Extensions, painted brickwork

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The Merredin Park Estate was developed by the Intercolonial Investment Land & Building Company Ltd of Sydney, and was released in three stages. This portion was part of Stage 1, situated on Swan Locations 658 and 660. The land was advertised as 'splendid mansion and villa sites' and it was it was offered for sale by public auction on 25 June 1902. There were houses no listed for the street in Wise's Post Office Directories until 1906 when three were listed in the whole lenght from Charles Street to North Beach Road (Scarborough Beach Road). There were still only four residents listed in 1910. The first Perth Baptist church was officially formed on 23 June 1895, and other churches were founded at Fremantle and Katanning. On 4 December 1896, a Baptist Union was formed of the existing churches. A division developed in the church of the issue of open (non-baptised) or close (baptised) membership. The group favouring close membership established a separate church in the William Street Oddfellows Hall while the open membership group remained at the Museum Street church. Both groups undertook mission work in the North Perth area, with the first services of the North Perth parish being held in the North Perth Municipal Chambers in February 1902. In 1904, the Museum Street group built a church on the corner of Vincent and Fitzgerald streets to cater for the developing North Perth parish. The foundation stone for the new Baptist church was laid on 6 July 1904 by Reverend Silas Mead and the dedication service was held on 26 October. The Museum Street group soon found the new church a strain on their financial resources, so they sold the church to the William Street groupf for 1,250 pounds. The group took possession o the North Perth Baptist Church on 1 May 1905. The North Perth parish extended its work to Osborne Park, Mount Hawthorn and Maylands. On 9 June 1912, the Mount Hawthorn Baptist Church was opened on Hobart Street. This parish was an extension of the North Perth mother church as were those established in Osborne Park and Maylands. In 1917, there were two pastors for the four churches. Victorai Park joined the group in 1917. The congregation quickly outgrew thier church and a weatherboard hall was erected at the rear of the building around 1915 by a group of volunteer builders. It was not a very professional effot and was quite rickety. It was used for youth and children services until it burnt down on 1 November 1944. It was replaced by the current brick hall in 1948. A tennis court was laid out along the Edinboro Street boundary and this was used until the next building was erected in 1933. Another room was added on the left side of the building as the surrounding suburb was rapidly expanding. These two buildings were joined together in 1988. An outreach church was established in Egina Street Mount Hawthorn in 1936. At that time Reverend A.E Holloway was the resident clergyman. A Sunday School began in January 1936 on a vacant block in the street and continued later in an asbestos garage, which was erected by the Mount Hawthorn, Young Men's Gospel Band. In 1939 the foundation stone was laid for the new building and the Sunday School continued until about 1963 with occasional services being held there. on 23 July 1966 'Wybalena'', an aged persons' hostel accomodating 12 people, was opened at No. 96 Hobart Street. This was during the Reverend M.H Dennis' incumbency and it was the first aged person's home opened by the Baptist Church.

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Mount Hawthorn Uniting Church

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The Mount Hawthorn Uniting Church is a good example of the Interwar Austerity style which demonstrates the aspirations and the limited resources of the local parish in the late 1930s. The place contributes to the streetscape and has associations with the Presbyterian Church, the Uniting Church and local community.

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The modest single storey church is constructed of concrete blocks. It has a gabled roof with a simple gable roofed entrance porch facing the street. The entrance to the porch is flanked by a pair of Tuscan columns. The gables are timbered with sheeting infill, although the main gable also incorporates a circular/florette shaped stained glass window. The small timber windows are rectangular but the lights are shaped as gothic-styled arched windows. Central on the grassed site it is setback from the street frontage. Painted exterior

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Kalgoorlie Street was part of what was referred to as the Leederville Extension Estate. Residential lots were released for sale in about 1896, but the area was slow to develop. The street was listed in Wise's Post Office Directories in 19014 for the first time but there was no houses built. In 1905 there was one resident listed in Kalgoorlie Street, George Belstead and in 1915 there were seven. The street was about two thirds built out by 1937, as development spread westward across the suburb and in 1949 there appeared to be only three of four empty blocks. Presbyterianism can trace its roots back to the 16th Century European Reformation and to John Calvin, a French Protestant (1509 - 1564). This form of Calvinism developed in Scotland before it was unified with England in 1707. The Mount Hawthorn Presbyterian Church 'first stated in the Kindergaten in Woodstock Street. This was part of an outreach from the North Perth congregation. The ladies , with the help of maybe a retired person, would make bricks for the proposed church.. This went on for years. It must have been a very pleasant thing for these girls to faithfully work and made those cement bricks' (Freese) Jurjen Freese, who worked in the building industry and was also a member of the congregation, helped with the installation of the windows and doors. The foundation stone for the building was laid in April 1937 and the church was opened in February 1938. It was situated in a pleasant position position opposite Menzies Park and close to transprt (trams on Scarborough Beach Road) and to Mount Hawthorn Primary School on the opposite side of the main road. The double lot on the south side of the new church was occupied by a wood yard at the church was built. The rectangular section of the church at the rear, which formed the building into an L-shape, was a later addition. On 22 June 1977, the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist Church parishes amalgamated to form the Uniting Church to become the third largest Christian denomination in Australia. In December 2003 Mount Hawthorn's Uniting Church made history when it joined forces with the Mount Hawthorn Anglican Parish. The new group occupied a complex on Green Street which included a church, community hall and meeting rooms and the Kalgoorlie Street building was left vacant.

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Anzac Cottage

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ANZAC Cottage is unique in Australia as a memorial to the Great War, which also provided a home for returned soldier Private Cuthbert Porter, until 1971. The place is a good and intact example of the Federation Bungalow style. It is a rare example of an architect designed ’workers cottage’. The house was constructed by community effort in a single day on the 12 February 1916. The place has close associations with Private Porter, the Mt Hawthorn Progress Association, the local community and the Vietnam Veteran’s Association.

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This single storey red brick, hipped roof cottage has a broken pitch verandah supported by timber posts. The symmetrical façade is decorated with stucco bands and decoration under the triple casement windows either side of the central front door. The twin gablets are infilled with roughcast. The roof has terracotta tiles. The word "ANZAC" is written in coloured leadlight in the fanlight above the front door. Cemented front steps with urns lead to the verandah. There is a flag pole in the front yard. Setback appropriate to residential context. The flat site has minimal plantings. 1960s rear extensions removed in 1997.Restoration in 1997

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This building is unique in Australia in that it was the first war memorial built to commemorate those who had fought in World War 1 and also that it was built as a house to accommodate a returned soldier. Its construction was initiated by the Mount Hawthorn Progress Association in 1915. In December that year the Westralian Worker announced: 'It is to perpetuate the memory of Australia's gallant sons who took part in this now historic landing that the Mount Hawthorn Progress Association are appealing for funds to erect a practical monument. Once of those who took his place in the attack on April 25th and who has returned to us disabled for life is Private John Porter, and it is intended that the monument to be erected should take the form of a home for Mr Porter and his wife and child, which will be called 'Anzac Cottage'. Private Cuthburt John Porter migrated to Western Australia in 1913. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces on 3 September 1914 and his regimental number was 1013. He was wounded in action at the Dardanelles, Gallipoli Peninsula on 23 June 1915 and repatriated home. He was discharged from the Armyon 10 July 1916, having declared medically unfit due to a wound in his left leg with several pieces of shrapnel lodged behind his kneecap. Fund raising for the cottage began in earnest with ex/Mayor John Veryard being the first to donate. Such was the response from the public that the original idea of a 'small wooden structure' was soon upgraded to a four-roomed brick cottage. In all they raised £185 and the remainder was met by donations of labour and goods. The land for the cottage was provided by real estate agent James Peet, for £25 and the site was described as 'overlooking the northern shores of Monger's Lake and surrounded by some of the finest scenery in the Metropolitan area'. The site was cleared by 30 volunteers during the first of three busy bees held on 29 January 1916, with the Ladies Patriotic Guild providing afternoon tea. Preparations fo the joinery work had also began at that time. Building materials, furnishings and money were provided by Perth businesses, and a "carter's bee" held on 5 February 1916, resulted in a half-mile long procession of vehicles transporting materials to the site. The Anzac Cottage souvenir booklet stated that: 'No finer display of Patriotic and industrial effort has ever been seen in Perth than .. when 70 drays, laden with building material, formed up a procession.. Fully 150 men gave up their Saturday afternoon.. Mrs C Roberts, the 'Soldiers Queen' headed the processsion in her motor car, which also carried a Metters' stove and copper , and was accompanied by two other decorated motor cars. Then came 20 drays of stone, 27 of bricks, 1 of lime, 3 of tiles, 12 of timber, 1 of cement and paintss, 1 of scaffolding, 1 tiled grate, 1 large enamel bath, 1 of refreshments, and 1 of sundries. The procession was viewed by thousands as it proceeded to Mount Hawthorn, and on arrival at 'Anzac" was greeted by hundreds of enthusiastic men, women and children. The architect for Anzac Cottage was Alfred Levido, who lived in Coogee Street. Councillor Sidney Gibson, a building contractor, supervised the construction, which involved over 200 volunteers from the community and took place in a single day, 12 February 1916 (the third busy bee), with women serving hot meals in relays to the workers. Construction began at 3am and by 5pm a flag was raised with 'A.N.Z.A.C' embroidered on it - the cottage being virtually completed within this one day. The Perth City Gardener supervised the laying of the lawn, and the house was completed with fence and flag pole. When completed the cottage was valued at £600 and the deeds were subsequently vested in the Trustees of the Progress Association. On 15 April 1916, Anzac Cottage was officially opened by the Premier John Scadden and his wife who unlocked the door adn declared it open in fornt of a crowd of 3,000 people, including officials from Mount Hawthorn Progress Association. it was officially handed over to Private Porter, the following day, Mrs C. Roberts who had started the first trench for the foundations. The deeds were vested in the Trustees of the Progress Association. The Porter family occupied the cottage from 1916 to 1917 and one of this tasks every year on Anzac Day was to raise the flag at 4am to commemorate the Gallipoli landings. After his death in 1964, his wife Annie carried on the tradition until her own death in 1978. Private Porter's grand daughter, Anne Chapple, has researhed and written historical pieces on the cottage nad the Porter family, which have won historical awards at both the Town of Vincent (Local History Centre) and the West Australian Historical Society. ' During the 1970's some small alterations were made to the rear of the house but it became very run down after the Porters left as the Progress Association had long since folded. Then in 1994, ownership was transferred to the Vietnam Veteran's Association (VVA), perpetuating its link with returned service personnel. A conservation plan was prepared in 1996, and the cottage was restored with the assistance of the Mt Hawthorn Anzac Cottage Restoration Group. The project was coordinated by Peter Ramsey, President of VVA, and it won the Town's Building Design and Conservation Award in 3003. The project took 11 years to complete. Anzac Cottage was reopened on 20 April 1997 by the West Australia Governor, Sanderson. A final dedication ceremony was held on 7 April 2002 during which the governor's wife, Mrs Lorraine Sanderston relaid the memorial plaque in the front gate pillar. The cottage was then used as the headquarterse of the VVA and one of the front rooms was let ot the Coeliac Society of WA. The house currenlty functions as a museum and a venue for VVA activities which include an annual Anzac Day Service held at sunset and therefore the last such service held each time in Australia, The deeds to Anzac Cottage were handed over by the VVA in trust the Town of Vincent ceremony held on 16 April 2006, the 90th anniversary of the cottage. In 2008 the association still had its headquarters in the cottage. In 2007 local author Valeries Evvertt published a children's book. The House That Was Built in a Day, which tells the story of its beginnings and commemorates the Anzac's bravery.

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Mount Hawthorn Primary School

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Mount Hawthorn Junior Primary School is a good example of an Infants and Primary School in the Interwar Art Deco style, which before the Second World War was a model of its type. The history of the school mirrors the development of the area and the changes in primary education over the past seven decades.

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The single storey building has Art Deco influences, particularly evident in the entrance porch. This is reached by a flight of steps with curved metal rails, which projects forward of the building. The entry has a flat roof and a moulded entry with deco decoration. The words 'Mount Hawthorn Infants' School' are centered above the entry. The buildings have large hipped roofs, the facades are rendered above the window sills and red face brick below, and the casement windows are multi-paned (4 squares per sash). High setback location above the road, with landscaped gardens. Adaptations to facilitate ongoing function.

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Mount Hawthorn Junior Primary School began as two classrooms constructed in 1933 for the infants' section of Mount Hawthorn Primary School . The Primary School (originally known as Hawthorne School) opened in 1906 in the Mount Hawthorn Congregational Hall with 43 students, and moved to its present site, Reserve No. 10948, in 1908. In 1912 there were over 100 pupils and by 1933 the school had an enrolment of over 700. That year, two classrooms were built on land fronting Scarborough Beach Road, below the Primary School. They were occupied by the infants' classes. In 1936, a third classroom was added. In 1937 these three classrooms became the core of the new Mount Hawthorn Infants' School. By 1937 there were 770 children on the roll and the following year local church halls were in use as classrooms to cater for the large increase in numbers. A fourth classroom, a room for the head teacher, a staff room, stationery store, cleaner's storeroom and open-air teaching space were added, and a new façade and front entrance were created. The provision of a staff room was a departure from past custom and the school was considered a model of its type. The new Infants' School opened in February 1938 with 187 pupils. Two more classrooms were added in 1939 and 1944 (making a total of eight). In 1947, an RAAF hut was added and named Nimmo House after the education minister. This was in response to a post war baby boom, which resulted in student numbers climbing again to around 650 in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1966, the Infants' School was renamed Mount Hawthorn Junior Primary School. The school celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1981. An estimated 3,000 students, parents and past students attended a ceremony held at the school, including John P. Tuke (then 95), who was headmaster in the early 1940s. The old school bell (believed to have been cast locally) was rung at the commencement of the proceedings which included a talk on the history of the school by the current Principal, J.J. Waters. The 100th anniversary celebrations in 2006 included the presentation of 550 cup cakes by Perth MP John Hyde '“ one for every student at the school. A very large number of people involved in the school community '“ past and present '“ also attended these celebrations. In the 1970s the school was classified as 'disadvantaged'. An ethnic teacher was subsequently employed and lessons and events were held to encourage understanding. In 1999 it was reported that the school catered for students from Kindergarten to Year 3 and provided specialist programmes in 'music, Italian and physical education, which are all conducted in school hours. After school programmes include tennis, dancing, hockey, piano and live skills.' (Voice News 22.10.1999, p.13) There was also an out-of-school care facility which operated from 3pm to 6pm. Major renovations carried out in 1985 included the addition of a library. In 1990 an undercover assembly area was constructed but the next new building was not until 2005/6 when a new library resource centre was constructed. It was named 'The Harbeck Resource Centre' in honour of Miss Muriel Harbeck, who was the headmistress from 1944 to 1963. Miss Harbeck was an active member of the local community and lobbied for the establishment of the Library and Mount Hawthorn Civic Centre on Scarborough Beach Road. A $49,000 upgrade of the school's playground was carried out in 2007, which included cycle paths, landscaping and safe areas for the children to enjoy. There were also further changes to the school buildings in 2007/8 with the construction of a new Upper Primary toilet block, an administration building and staff facility designed by Finlay & Rumble Architects Pty Ltd. The cost of the work, which included the demolition of two existing brick and tile toilet blocks by Brajkovich Demolition Pty Ltd, was $2m. With the construction of a new administration area, the old one was recycled, thus increasing the number of classrooms from 16 to 19. The Principals at that time were Dale Mackesey and Dorothy Treasure. On 31 December 2007 the Mount Hawthorn Junior Primary School amalgamated with the Mount Hawthorn Primary School (Matlock Street). The schools, which are less than 100 metres apart, from then on operated as the Mount Hawthorn Primary School with Dale Mackesey as its principal.

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Houses, 46 and 48 Lynton Street, Mount Hawthorn

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Mount Hawthorn Hotel (fmr)

Values

· Fine example of a hotel in the Interwar Free Classical style, retaining significant interior detailing throughout, and very intact first floor layout.
· Associations with WA hoteliers Joseph Monaghan, Alfred & Elsie Gillham, and John (Jack) Smith, who operated hotels in many places in the State, and former WAFL footballers Jack Smith and Neil Randall.
· Evidence of the commercial development of Mt Hawthorn in the 1930s at a time when much development in the State was put on hold by the Depression.
· Landmark corner building, especially at time of construction and in early years when the suburb around it was mostly low-scale buildings.
· Continual use as a hotel and accommodation facility from 1932 to the present.

Physical Description

2-storey corner hotel in brick and concrete with terracotta tile roof; ground floor extensively changed to create open-plan pub, but retains much original detailing inc, plaster ceilings, lead-lights (esp. front windows and feature window above staircase), jarrah staircase with original carved timber Buddha statue from India on bottom pillar; upstairs remains largely as constructed – originally built with 21 bedrooms upstairs.

History

·Designed 1930 by Cavanagh & Cavanagh for owner & licensee Joseph Monaghan (long-time hotelier in WA who had previously run Queens Hotel North Perth, Exchange Hotel Kalgoorlie, Metropolitan Hotel Coolgardie, Orient Hotel Fremantle and Globe Hotel Perth), but the project was abandoned and the land sold to Alfred Gillham (b.1890, England). ·Hotel built 1932 to Cavanagh & Cavanagh’s plans, and operated as ‘Mount Hawthorn Hotel’ by Alfred Gillham and his wife Elsie (nee Hartley), who also had long experience in WA hotels, having held the license for at least 7 hotels in the State prior to this place. ·Built in 1930 at the time that the commercial centre of Mt Hawthorn was developing in close proximity. It was the only 2-storey building in the area at the time, and quickly became a local landmark, especially on account of its white-painted walls without verandahs, which were floodlit at night. The hotel had many permanent boarders, including Mrs Sewell, who ran the drapery next door. · Alfred was a well-known and loved publican. The Gillhams lived at the hotel until Elsie’s death in 1952, and Alfred;s move to live with his daughter in 1954. From the late 1930s they operated the place with assistance from Elsie’s sister Ethel Green (and husband Les), brother William Hartley, and children Betty Berghan (and husband Mike) and Hartley Gillham, and these four parties took over ownership in 1956 after Alfred’s death. · In 1955 the first major changes were made at the place, with the ground floor areas being rearranged and the main entrance being shifted to Scarborough Beach Road. · In 1960, the original 3 small ground floor parlours were converted into one large games room, and in 1962 an elevated beer garden, partly enclosed, was built to the rear. New toilets added in 1961 meant that for the first time since construction there was more than one women’s toilet in the building, an indication of changing pub culture in the post-WWII period. · The Gillham and Hartley families sold the hotel in 1968 to Thomas and Dorothy (Rinaldi) Nevill, and the license was taken on by Herbert Coughlan, who had previously operated hotels in Fremantle and Harvey. The business expanded considerably under the new management. · In 1970, the remainder of the elevated beer garden was enclosed with low brick walls and aluminium-frame windows designed to take advantage of the view of Perth. · The place continued to take boarders in the 1970s, including many army personnel and their families who had left Darwin after Cyclone Tracy in 1974. · From 1975 to 1977 the license was held by John Harding, whose brief time at the place created many colourful stories, including taking on bikies gangs outside with a spear gun and thwarting the 1976 Brewers Strike by driving trucks to the East Coast to bring beer back to stock the hotel. The place operated to high acclaim as the Lamplighter Restaurant during this period, but the facilities could not sustain this function as it grew in popularity, and had to return to ordinary ‘pub meals’. The façade displayed the name ‘the Mounty’. · From 1977 to 1986 the place was run by John (Jack) and Joy (Joan?) Smith. Jack had been a well-known WAFL player for East Perth from 1947 to 1956. During this time, despite the ongoing popularity of the hotel, the place was in decline. · In 1984 the place was purchased by the Swanson family, and in 1986 the license was purchased by Dennis Moulton. In common with many businesses in Perth, the hotel was renovated in preparation for the 1987 Americas Cup. Changes were designed by Geoff Warn, including opening up most of the ground floor area to create a large space, enlarging the kitchen, removing the bottle shop (replaced with a new bottle shop to Fairfield Street), removing 1970s suspended ceilings, removing lino, tiles and carpet to reveal the original timber floors, and replacing the tiled bar with a polished jarrah fit-out. · The place was renamed ‘Paddington Ale House’. The character of the hotel changed from its original ‘working class’ local pub, to a more upmarket establishment offering boutique beers and appealing to the 25-35 age group, especially on weekends. This reflected changes in the character of Mt Hawthorn from this period into the 1990s. · In 1989 the lease was taken over by Michael Monteleone and Neil Randall, with Randall taking it on solo from 1994. Randall had also been a prominent WAFL player, with 152 games for Subiaco and 58 for South Fremantle from the 1970s to the 1980s. · Further changes were made to the building in 1998, to designs by Oldfield Knott, with much of the finance for these works raised somewhat controversially by 6 years of skimpies in the public (rear) bar. A new lounge area was created at the rear by the demolition of this bar, and the 1986 partitions between the bar and the Ale House were removed to create a single space. Alfresco dining areas and a garden court yard were created, and the dining room was re-established at the front of the building. The new large space has attracted larger entertainment acts including bands such as Yothu Yindi and Things of Stone and Wood. · In 2002, the adjacent shop was converted to a bottle shop and visually linked to the hotel. · The first floor has been relatively unchanged since its construction in 1932. It continues to provide accommodation for full-time boarders.

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Statement of Significance

Paddington Ale House (former Mount Hawthorn Hotel) is a fine example of an Interwar Free Classical style, and a late work of Michael Cavanagh, which has been sympathetically modelled in the Late 20th Century Post Modern style to bring the facilities up to contemporary standards. It is a landmark on a prominent corner location. It has associations with the Monaghan family, prominent hoteliers, Cavanagh & Cavanagh, notable architects, and H A Doust, a respected builder of the period.

Physical Description

Two storey hotel with decorated parapet walls, framing cantilevered eaves to bedrooms and verandahs. The corner parapet features a heavy arched corbel, edged with dentils. The ground floor windows and doorways are arched, with keystones, and the arches have stucco surrounds. The bay either side of the corner doorway retains its dado tiling. In 1987 the hotel was refurbished keeping its side and corner façade intact, however, the main façade to Scarborough Beach Road was opened up, in keeping with contemporary needs for transparency and openness to al fresco areas. The ground floor tavern was opened with french doors set under shallow arches. The upstairs function rooms were opened to balconies with light metal balustrading. The Scarborough Beach Road entrance includes spectacular coloured leadlight in the arches. Zero setbacks to both streets and corner truncation Refurbishment of 1987.

History

Scarborough Beach Road was originally named North Beach Road. It was changed to Scarborough Beach Road circa 1947. Fairfield Street, the secondary street to the hotel was previously known as Ilma Street. By the 1930s, the area of Mount Hawthorn around North Beach Road had developed to the extent that a hotel was considered a reasonable addition to the district. The site was on a main thoroughfare and the the tram route between Perth, Leederville and Osborne Park. Joseph Monahgan bought the block from Henry Prisk Gartrell, a draper and Councillor for North Perth for £900. Monaghan was born in Ireland circa 1860 and arrived in WA in 1863 in response to the gold discoveries. In 1896 he was in Perth and bought the lease on the Queen's Hotel in Beaufort Street. After four years there, followed by a stint in Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, he moved to Fremantle and then to Perth, on each occasion with an involvement with a hotel. In 1930 when he bought the subject site for a hotel he was living in retirement in Grosvenor Road, North Perth. Michael Cabavaugh of the architectural firm Cavanagh & Cavanagh designed the hotel for Monaghan in 1931. Tenders were then called and that of R. V. Ritchie was accepted, but the work did not go ahead for some reason. Tenders were recalled in April 1932, and the contract was awarded to H. A. Doust with a quote of £9,915. Personal reasons called Joseph Monaghan to sell soon after construction and had begun in 1932 and Alfred (Pop) Gillam bought it from him for £950. Gillam had previously leased the Commonwealth Hotel (Hyde Park Hotel) but sold up there and bought the Mount Hawthorn site are partially built the hotel in 1932. When it was finished it was known as the Mount Hawthorn Hotel. One outstanding feature and focal point of the finished hotel was the jarrah staircase in the front hallway. This was built by carpenter Edward (Ted) Anwyll Edwards 'whose speciality was staircases' (Melva Edwards daughter). He was employed by Millars timbers. The hotel was listed in the Wise's Post Office Directories in 1933 with a Mr Gillans name attached and Mrs Luch E. Sewell, 'ladies outfitter' was listed next door, first listed in 1928. In 1949, the last year of the Directories, W Green, one of Gillams partners was listed as the licensee. There was four partners in all: Mrs W. Green (Mrs Gillam's sister), Mrs Gillam, Pop Gillam and Bill Hartley (Mrs Gillams' brother) and Les Green (Mrs Greens' husband) who all ran the hotel. At that time 'Pop' and Mrs Gillam and the Greens were living at the hotel. It is possible that the Gillam's son Hartley was also residing there at the time. Betty, the Gillam's daughter, also lived there with her husband Mick Beghan for two years while building their own home in Mount Hawthorn. Mick polished the bar floors and did other jobs to earn his keep. (Mick Bergham). Twelve bedrooms were required under the Licensing Act but in fact, 21 were constructed upstairs. There were also bathrooms alongside, with three or four showers in a row, and a lounge room at the front. There was parking space at the rear and about six garages. According to the City of Perth building licence cards alterations were carried out to the hotel in 1956 and an open-air beer garden was also added. In 1961 there were internal alterations and a glass enclosure and in 1962 an enclosure to the beer garden. In 1970 a games room was acded and some further alterations were carried out in 1975. From 1960 Mick Bergham's name appears as one of the applicants on the licence carsds bu the name of the applicant for the 1974 work was indecipherable. The Gillam family group sold the hotel around 1975 for approximately £30,000; around this time Mr Vanstone was the licensee. In 1984 the hotel applied for and received an extended trading permit allowing it to trade to 1.00am at weekends. Renovations were carried out in 1896 which included the white painted exterior walls being changed to light blue. The applicant on this occasion was Mr Swanson. In these years, as was the case with many of the older inner-city hotels, the hotel bedrooms were no longer utilised by travellers and they instead provided cheap accommodation and meals for permanent residents, generally single men. The hosting of the America's Cup yacht race in 1987 resulted in a general upgrading of recreational facilities throughout the metropolitan area in preparation for this event, and the Mount Hawthorn Hotel was refurbished as the Paddington Ale House in 1987. In 1999 $800,000 was spent on the redevelopment of the courtyard on Scarborough Beach Road, opening the hotel onto the street, plus the demolition of old additions at the rear and the construction of a new sports bay where popular sporting events could be televised and concerts could also be held. In 2002 the exterior of the hotel was repainted mustard brown, dark brown and green. That same year the shop adjacent to the hotel at No. 147 Scarborough Beach road once Miss L Sewell's drapery and haberdashery opened as Paddington Fine Wines. A history of the hotlel by author Valerie Everett was also produced to mark the hotel's 70th anniversary. This was entitled 'Seventy Years of Cheers! A history of the Paddington Ale House' 1932 - 2002. In 2005 permission was granted for the patron numbers to be increased from 400 to 470. Alfreso dining on Scarborough Beach Road had previously been approved and the number of patrons allowed in that section was also increased by 10 in 2005. At this time new bi-fold doors were installed at the front by Oldfield Knott Architects Pty Ltd to allow easy access to the alfreso area.

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