ARCHITECTURE
Federation / Rustic Gable w Carpenter Gothic Influences
No. 51 (previously was no. 111) Sewell street is a pair of single story cottages constructed in limestone and brickwork with a pair of gabled corrugated iron roofs. The gables are highly decorative. It is a fine expression of a duplex in the Federation Cottage Ornée Bungalow style. The pair is asymmetrically planned. A full width skillion roofed verandah is located at No 51. The verandah is supported by the party wall and steel posts. No 53 has no verandah. 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
AIF 1915, Arthur Henry Mitchell (Regimental number 1759) Occupation Grocer, 111 Sewell Street, East Fremantle, Single, Age at embarkation 21. Next of kin Robert Mitchell. AIF Record
1940 Death on June 22, at Fremantle Hospital, Emma Barwise late of 51 Sewell street, East Fremantle, passed peacefully away after a long illness… dearly beloved mother of Helena Minnie Malvina (Mrs. Wheeler) and Harry, fond mother-to-law of Meg (Mrs. H. Barwise) and Harry Wheeler. Devoted grandma, of Dudley and Melton Wheeler, Barbara and Leon Barwise, aged 79 years 10 months. (reference)
1969 Cough up for a war criminal. An Ustashi (Croatian nazi) group in Australia has launched a nation wide fund for money to erect a monument on the grave of a leading war criminal recently killed in Spain. The issuing of collection lists and a plan to "visit every Croat" soliciting money is feared by Yugoslav migrants to be part of a giant extortion racket by the Ustashi… The fund is launched in a letter on a Ustashi letterhead over the signature of the Ustashi's "Chief Agent" for Australia and New Zealand — a Mr. S. Brbic of 51 Sewell Street, East Fremantle. Yugoslav migrants from Croatia have been troubled for some time by demands for donations for Ustashi funds. They fear repercussions if they refuse. The vast majority of Croats reject the violence and hatred preached and practiced by the Ustashi. But the organisation is well entrenched in Australia, enjoying the support of some Liberal Party politicians and "Church dignitaries’’ (reference) Read more about Mr. S. Brbic under Notable People section.
RESIDENTS
1911 - 1912: Stoddart, James
1913: Ramsay, Alexander
1914 - 1932: Mitchell, Robert
1933 - 1940: Reynolds, Herbert J.
1940 - 1942: Barwise, Miss Helena
1942 - 1949: Russell, Mrs. Olive
1959- Mr. Stefan Brbic, Mrs. Anna Brbic
