ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War / Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 27 Moss Street ‘‘Glen Lossie’’ is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is a fine expression of the Federation Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust gable bay and a part width return bull-nosed roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on turned timber posts and terminates at the gabled thrust bay. The half-timbered gable bay features a pair of double hung sash windows. There is a central door and hopper light flanked by sidelights and a pair double hung sash windows. In recent times the place has been rendered. Windows feature decorative sills. The roofscape features a pair of rendered chimneys.
HISTORY
1913 Dear Aunt Mary, We have had Easter holidays and start school on Monday again. I am in the fourth standard, and my brother is up at Pinjarra and catches lots of fish, but will not take them off the line. While I was having my holidays I learned to row by myself, and I rowed myself up the river for the milk. From Muriel, age 10 yeans 4 months, and Albert, age 5 years 7 months; Gracie, "Glen Lossie" Moss-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1914 Fremantle Newsagents' Picnic. The Fremantle newsagents' picnic eventuates at the Zoo...Cricket and Races—Fremantle Newsagents' Handicap entries: E. Gracie… (reference)
AIF Record Ernest Leslie Ferguson gave this address when enlisting in August 1914.
1929 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gracie left for Melbourne by trans train on Saturday evening for six weeks in the Eastern States. (reference)
1931 Storm A newsagent named E. Gracie had a narrow escape as he was driving from his home before daylight in a horse and cart. The horse suddenly fell to the ground. Investigation showed it had stood on a live wire, which had fallen into a puddle, killing it instantly. Fortunately. Gracie saw the wire before he touched the horse. Many electric wires were blown, down throughout the district. (reference) When he lived at Fortescue St.
RESIDENTS
1909 - 1922: Gracie, Edward
1923 - 1940: Collins, Thomas Robert
1940 - 1942: Healy, Miss Catherine M.
1942 - 1946: Davies, Mrs. I. E. & Topper, Hubert
1947 - 1949: Anderson, L.
