ARCHITECTURE
Late Victorian / Early Federation, Domestic carpenter w Georgian Influences
No. 36 (previously was no. 86) Sewell street is a single storey cottage constructed in timber framing and weatherboard cladding with a steeply pitched hipped corrugated iron roof. It is a simple expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a central door and hopper light flanked by double hung sash windows. The facade features a full width bull-nosed roofed verandah supported on timber posts
HISTORY
1909 Death on April 21, at his residence, 86 Sewell-street, East Fremantle, George Cooper, the dearly beloved husband of Sarah Cooper, aged 75 years. (reference)
1909 Funeral. The Friends of the late Mr. George Cooper (carrier), of Fremantle, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Anglican portion of the Fremantle Cemetery. The Funeral is appointed to leave his late residence, 86 Sewell-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1934 Drowning Narrowly Escaped. Trio’s Good Work. An eight-year-old boy, George Smith, of 39 Silas-street, East Fremantle, had a narrow escape from drowning in the Swan River near the old Castlemaine Brewery, East Fremantle, yesterday afternoon, when two other lads hesitated before going to his rescue, because swimmers in the locality are in the habit of pretending to drown. A combination of two plucky youngsters and a resourceful man saved his life. Smith was rescued in the last stages of exhaustion, but effective resuscitation measures by Lionel Bulliard, a lumper and former league footballer, saved his life. The boy's rescuers were Ralph Sydney Delaney (13), of 113 Sewell street (now no. 53), and Evan Smith (14), of 86 Sewell-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1938 The engagement is announced of Gwen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Smith, of 86 Sewell-street, East Fremantle, to James (Jim), eldest son of Mrs. A. Hume and the late Mr. Hume, of 574 High-street, Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1909 - 1910: Albury, Charles
1911 - 1921: Peterson, Charles
1922 - 1949: Smith, H. S.
