14 Marmion Street — Streets of East Freo

ARCHITECTURE

Late Victorian / Early Federation / Mannerist Influences

No. 14 (previously was no. 20) Marmion street is a single storey house constructed in rendered masonry with a hipped tiled roof. The place is a residence in the Federation Bungalow Style with later modifications. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with an offset entry door flanked by a double hung sash window. The door is recessed in an arched entry on the west side. The facade features a full width hip roofed verandah supported on Tuscan columns mounted on masonry piers. The verandah appears to be a replacement. A parapet wall runs along the west lot boundary.

HISTORY

1918 Lumpers and Lash. "Dinkums" and "Gnashionalists". Jury Decide Twas a Fair Fight And Return Verdict of Acquittal...Oscar Alfred Carlson, a member of the Lumpers Union, said Wilkie was a "Bit Of A Nagger." He and Wilkie had a few words, "both swearing up a bit," and Captain Thomas told them to keep quiet. (reference)
1928 Oscar Alfred Carlson. A Fremantle wharf lumper petitioner in the Carlson divorce case. His principal grounds of divorce were that his wife came home late from dances continuously after being married to him 13 years. (reference)
1928 Wharf Lumper’s Wife Lived Her Own Life. Is Now Divorced. Lisle Carlson apparently loved her husband, Oscar Alfred Carlson, but then tired of him, with the result that the couple drifted apart and provided a case for Mr. Justice Burnside in the Divorce Court today. Carlson, a young man, said he was married to his wife at North Fremantle in 1910 and they had three children... (reference)
1939 Motorist Fined Drove 'Under Influence' Oscar Carlson (49), waterside worker, was fined and was disqualified from holding a driver's licence for 12 months, when he appeared before the Perth Police Court, on a charge he drove a motor car south along Canning highway, near Berwick street, South Perth, while he was so far under the influence of liquor as to be incapable of having proper control of the vehicle. (reference)
1930 A motor car driven by Mrs. Annie Haskell of Corrigin, with Mr. T. Haskell, her husband and Mrs. Moyes as passengers was struck by a locomotive at East Guildford railway crossing yesterday afternoon but the occupants escaped. (reference)
1937 On Sunday afternoon the body of John W. Ellingford, a 54-year-old greaser, was found hanging from a piece of cogline in the steering gear engine house of the motor vessel Kangaroo. (reference)