25 Sewell Street

25 Sewell Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Federation, Gable Terrace w Carpenter Gothic Influences

No. 25 (previously was no. 67) Sewell street is a pair of single story cottages constructed in limestone and brick construction with render decorative details. The place has a pair of prominent gabled roofs and hipped corrugated iron roofs. The gables are highly decorative complete with render niches set into their brick gables. It is a very fine expression of a duplex in the Federation Cottage Ornée Bungalow style. The pair is symmetrically planned with a party wall flanked by full width bull-nosed roofed verandahs. The verandahs are supported on timber posts. The entry doors are equally offset from the party wall and are flanked by pairs of double hung sash windows. All openings have brick quoins.

HISTORY

1932 Death on May 6 at her late residence, 67 Sewell-street, East Fremantle, Louisa Amelia Thompson, daughter of the late Samuel and Ellen Thompson, beloved sister of Mary Ann (Mrs. Brown), William, Samuel, Ernest, and the late Emily Counsel; aged 51 years. At rest. (reference)

1932 Prizes Won - 50 Prizes at £5 Each. …J. G. Brown, 67 Sewell-street, East Fremantle. (reference)

1936 Wedding on July 20, 1886, at St. John's Church, Fremantle, by the Rev. Archdeacon Watkins, Thomas Groundsell, sixth son of the late William and Mary Brown, to Mary Ann, the eldest daughter of the late Samuel and Ellen Thompson. Present address, 67 Sewell-street, East Fremantle. (reference)

1937 Death on January 12,  at Fremantle Hospital, Lily Poat, dearly beloved granddaughter, of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Brown, of 67 Sewell-street East Fremantle, loving niece of Bert; aged 18 years. (reference)

1945 Death on May 24, at West Subiaco, Bernard Kenneth (Ken), dearly beloved youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. David J. Carr, of 25 Sewell-street, East Fremantle; loved brother of David and Keith and Kevin (deceased); fond brother-in-law of Rose and Edna: fond uncle of Ronald, Yvonne and Lynette; aged 16 years and 2 months. At rest. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1909 - 1910: White Christopher

1911: Prior Dave

1912: Stevenson

1913 - 1914: Kearns, James B.

1915: Williams, Charles S.

1917: Gallery, Mrs. T.

1918 - 1920: Gallery, Mrs. V.

1921: Smith, Herbert

1922: John, Harold

1923: Penman, Mrs.

1924 - 1925: Poat, Charles A.

1926 - 1928: Pattenden, Thomas James

1929 - 1939: Brown, Thomas

1940 - 1949: Carr, David J.

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