ARCHITECTURE
Late Victorian / Early Federation, Georgian Influences
No. 68 (previously was no. 100) East street-’Craignair’ is a single storey house constructed in limestone and rendered brick with a hipped ‘M’ format iron roof. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a central door flanked by windows and sidelights. The facade features a bullnose verandah supported on timber posts with a decorative frieze set over a concrete floor.
HISTORY
1906 A farewell social was tendered to Mrs. Hughan, who has been on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Coss of 'Craignair', East-street, Fremantle, at the High-street East Wesley Hall on Thursday evening… The Rev. Francis Mason proposed the health of Mr. and Mrs. Coss, and in doing so spoke of their value as workers in the church. Mr. Netherway, in a few appropriate remarks, supported the toast, which wras drunk with musical honors. 'Mrs. Hughan,' proposed by an old friend of the family, Mr. W. Cockcroft, was most enthusiastically responded to… (reference)
1915 Death on July 2, at Sydney, George Hughan, dearly beloved brother of Mrs. W. J. Cass, 100 East-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1919 Death on April 5, 1919, at 100 East-street East Fremantle, Joseph Stead, dearly beloved husband of Agnes, and father of Muriel Dale, (Melbourne), Charles Francisco, Marie, Maida, and Monty Murton (H.M.A.S. Australia), and Mrs. H. Hutchinson (Palmyra), aged 80 years. Adelaide (South Australia) papers please copy. (reference)
1919 Death on April 28, at Wagin, Charles Francisco Murton, eldest son of the late Joseph Stead Murton and Mrs. Murton, 100 East-street, East Fremantle, also brother of Monty, H.M.A.S. Australia; Mrs. Hutchinson, of Palmyra; Muriel Dale, Melbourne; and Marie, of Vacuum Oil Co., Fremantle. (reference)
1919 Funeral. The Friends of Mrs. Agnes Murton, of Fremantle, are respectfully invited to follow the remains of her late dearly beloved husband, Mr. Joseph Stead Murton, father of Misses Muriel and Marie, Messrs. Charles and Monty Murton, and Mrs. H. Hutchinson, to the place of interment, the Wesleyan Cemetery, Fremantle. The funeral will leave his late residence, No. 100 East-street, East Fremantle... (reference)
1934 In Memoriam. In loving memory of my dear Wife, Margaret Jane (Maggie), who passed away December 20, 1933, after a long illness. A precious one from me has gone, A voice I loved is stilled; There's a vacant place within our home, Which never can be filled. Inserted by her loving husband, William Sutherland (100 East-street, East Fremantle). (reference)
RESIDENTS
1907 - 1916: Coss, William. J.
1917 - 1918: McCutcheon, Robert C.
1919: Murton, C. F.
1920: Tuxford, Albert J.
1921 - 1924: Johnson, James M.
1925 - 1932: Smith, Michael H.
1933 - 1949: Turner, Joseph
