ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War / Bungalow Porch House
No 55 Dalgety Street is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a thrust bay and part width skillion roofed verandah. The verandah terminates at the thrust bay and is set on pairs of timber posts. The gable bay features a set of casement windows under a sunhood.
HISTORY
1930 Vehicle transfer. 26332: W. Robinson to Ernest Nicholas, 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, Chevrolet. (reference)
1942 Funeral Notices. The Friends of the late Mr. Walter Cary, of 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, late of North Fremantle, and formerly of the Loco Workshops W.A. Government Railways, Midland Junction, are respectfully informed that his remains… (reference)
1951 Silver Wedding. The son and daughters of Mr and Mrs. E. Nicholas, of 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, wish to announce the 25th Wedding Anniversary of their parents. (reference)
1951 Mr. and Mrs. E. Nicholas, of 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their younger daughter, Maureen, to Reginald, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Curedale, of 35 Adelaide-street, Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1927 - 1938: Nicholas, Ernest
1938 - 1940: Cary, Walter
1940 - 1943: Nicholas, Ernest & Cary, Walter
1944 - 1949: Nicholas, Ernest
late 1950’s - present- Pasquale and Rosa Martella (MARTELLA Rosa - Nationality: Italian - Arrived Fremantle per Flaminia 6 March 1958)