ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War, Bungalow Porch House w Classical Influences
No 59 Fortescue Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a flat roofed entry porch. The porch is supported on paired Tuscan columns set over brick piers. A brick balustrade spans between the piers. There is a prominent thrust bay with a half timbered gable. The thrust bay features a double hung sash window under a flat roofed awning. There is a central door flanked by hooded double hung sash windows. The roofscape features a masonry chimney and finials.
HISTORY
1935 Birth on January 8, at Sister Bathgate's Private Hospital, Staton-road, to Mr. and Mrs. D. Watson, of 59 Fortescue-street, East Fremantle—a daughter (Merle). (reference)
1937 In loving memory of Mother, who passed away May 26, 1936, darling grandma of Baby Merle. She was so tender, loving and kind, Time cannot blot you from our minds. Inserted by May and Doug Watson, 59 Fortescue-street. (reference)
1938 To Annie Wilson whose last known address was 59 Fortescue-street, East Fremantle in the State of Western Australia. Take Notice that a Citation has been issued out of the Divorce Registry of the Supreme Court of Western Australia citing you to appear and answer the Petition of James Edmund Wilson of 11 Walker-street, South Fremantle, in the said State praying for a dissolution of marriage... (reference)
1949 Van Skids And Hits Tree. Mavis Eunice Watson (38), of Fortescue-street, East Fremantle, received concussion when a motor van in which she was a passenger skidded on the wet road yesterday afternoon and crashed into a tree. She was admitted to the Fremantle Hospital. The driver of the van was Harold Arthur Congdon, of Foss street, Palmyra... (reference)
RESIDENTS
1933 - 1949: Watson, Doug K.
