ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War / Bungalow w Federation Influences
No 19 Moss Street is a single storey house constructed in tuck-pointed brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is a good expression of the Federation Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with a gable bay and a full width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah extends over the gable bay and is supported on timber posts with post brackets. There is a central door flanked by sets of casement windows. The roofscape features a pair of brick chimneys. The walls are brick with string courses.
HISTORY
1898 This was a case in which Thomas Victor Wright, a child four years of age, claimed, through his father, 1,000 pounds damages from the A.U.S.N. Company, as owners of the steamer Barcoo, for injuries sustained through contact of the steamer with the pier at Fremantle. The facts alleged for the plaintiff were that he with his mother were passengers by the steamer Barcoo from Sydney for Fremantle. While approaching the pier at Fremantle the child put its hand out of the porthole, and the vessel coming at the moment into contact with the pier the child's thumb was crushed, so severely that it had subsequently to be amputated. (reference)
1946 Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Wright, of 19 Moss-street, East Fremantle, wish to announce the marriage of their elder daughter Una, to Geoff eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Jenkins... (reference)
1949 Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Wright, of 19 Moss-street, East Fremantle, have much pleasure in announcing the engagement of their younger daughter Gweneth Joy, to Hamish Brian, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Smith of 71 Tuckfield street, Fremantle.(reference)
RESIDENTS
1928 - 1949: Wright, Thomas
