ARCHITECTURE
Late Victorian / Early Federation Domestic Carpenter with Georgian Influences
No. 32 (previously was no. 52) Silas street is a single storey house constructed in timber framing and feather edge weatherboard cladding with a hipped corrugated iron roof. It is a simple expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The place is symmetrically planned with a central door and hopper light flanked by double hung sash windows. The facade features full width skillion roofed verandah supported steel posts. The verandah is a replacement.
HISTORY
1927 Suggestion For Settlers(To The Editor.) Sir, The extreme heat takes my thoughts to the wives and babies of group settlers, whose shacks have iron roofs. Now I suppose straw is plentiful enough, why do they not adopt thatch roofs, which would be made cooler. Probably some of them understand thatching.—Yours, etc., Lucy M. Silverwood. 52 Silas-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1928 Funeral. The Friends of the late Mrs. Emma Crook, late of Silas-street, East Fremantle, are respectfully invited to follow her remains to the place of interment, the Church of England Cemetery, Fremantle. (reference)
1937 Advertisement for the sale of 52 (then 32) Silas-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1920 - 1923: Crook, Mrs Emma
1924 - 1928: Gray, Mrs H. A.
1929 - 1938: Twigden, William Henry
1938 - 1949: Williams, Samuel
