ARCHITECTURE
Interwar Bungalow w Georgian Influences
No 57 Oakover Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. It is symmetrically composed with a full width skillion roofed verandah supported on timber posts. A gabled porch is located at the centre of the verandah and marks the entry. There is a central door flanked by pairs of windows. The roofscape features a rendered chimney. The lower walls are face brick and the upper walls are rendered brick.
HISTORY
1930 Mary Hansen, 57 Oakover-street, East Fremantle.”...The council man came to our place the other day with numbers for all the houses in the street. This was quite a relief, for mostly all our letters have been put in other people's letter-boxes. But now that we all have numbers, everything will be alright…” (reference)
1937 Washday Tragedy. Petrol Explodes in Tub. A finding that the deceased died at the Fremantle Hospital from severe shock following burns received through an explosion of petrol at her parents' home on February 8 was delivered by the Acting-Coroner (Mr. J. M Farrell, J.P.) in the Fremantle Courthouse yesterday, at the conclusion of an inquest concerning the death of Joyce Ethel Wright (3 1/2 years). Mr and Mrs James Henry Wright the parents of the little girl, who was their only child, reside at 57 Oakover-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1941 Funeral Notice. The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Hobbs, of 57 Oakover-street East Fremantle are respectfully informed that the remains of their late dearly beloved daughter Betty will be interred in the Anglican portion of the Fremantle Cemetery. (reference)
1942 Bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hobbs and Family, of 57 Oakover-street, East Fremantle, sincerely thank all kind relatives and friends for personal expressions of sympathy letters, cards, telegrams, wreaths and beautiful flowers. Especially do they thank Dr. Einicovici and nursing staff of Corrigln Hospital. Dr. Dermer (Fremantle) and Father Quirk for their unfailing attention and personal kindness to their beloved daughter and sister Betty. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1929 - 1936: Hansen, Alf. James
1936 - 1937: Middleton, Henry
1938 - 1940: Morris, Harry P.
1940 - 1949: Hobbs, Herbert E.
