ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Bungalow w Federation Influences
No 38 Staton Street is a single storey house constructed in limestone, brick and rendered brick with a hipped tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style with Federation Filigree influences. The place sits on a corner lot that addresses both Staton Road and Alcester Street. It is asymmetrically composed with a full width return skillion roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on timber posts. There is a decorative valance and a vertical timber balustrade between the posts. The house is elevated and on a sloping site. There is a long curved set of steps leading from the verandah to the garden. The verandah terminates at a thrust bay on the south side of the house. The entrance door is located on the south elevation under the return verandah. The front elevation features a set of casement windows and a hopper light and a roundel window. The lower walls are brick and upper walls rendered. The place sits on limestone foundations.
HISTORY
1914 Douglas Emery enlisted with the 11th Battalion A.I.F and participated in the landing at Gallipoli. (reference)
1922 The marriage of Miss Peggy Reeves youngest daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. W. Reeves, 20 John-street, Fremantle, to Mr. Douglas Emery, M.M.. third son of Mr. and Mrs.Emery, of East Fremantle, was solemnised by the Rev. R. Hanlin, at Scots Church. Fremantle, recently. (reference)
1923 Dissolution of Partnership. The partnership of Douglas James Emery and Dennis Joseph Emery under the firm of “Emery Brothers” butchers in East Fremantle has been dissolved as of February 26. (reference)
1937 Hit by a Motor Van. Charles Alma Wallis was conveyed by St. John ambulance to Fremantle Hospital on May 21, where his name was placed on the danger list. He was walking along the road near the corner of Hammad and Carrington streets, Palmyra, when he was hit by the motor van which was driven by Douglas Emery, of Staton-road, East Fremantle. Unfortunately Wallis died three days later. (reference)
1937 No Evidence of Carelessness. On June 10, Douglas James Emery was cleared of any wrongdoing in the crash that took Charles Alma Wallis’s life. The matter was thoroughly investigated and witnesses questioned. (reference)
1937 Unregistered Dogs. On July 14, Douglas James Emery and Harold Edward O’Byrne were each cautioned and ordered to pay a fine of £1 7s 9d in the Fremantle Police Court for having kept an unregistered dog. (reference)
1940 Death on January 30, Douglas James Emery, devoted husband of Margaret Emery of 38 Staton road, East Fremantle, aged 43. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1927 - 1949: Emery, Douglas
