ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Californian Bungalow
No 6 Walter Street is a single storey house constructed in limestone, brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War California Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust bay and a part width gable roofed porch. The porch is supported on Tuscan columns set over rendered piers. A curved masonry balustrade spans between the piers. The thrust bay features a set of casement windows under a tiled awning. There is a central door flanked by sidelights and casement windows. The place sits on limestone foundations. The front facade lower walls are face brick and the upper walls are rendered. The side elevation walls are face brick. The roofscape features tall brick chimneys.
HISTORY
1917 Probates and Administrations…Charles Sang Noble, late of East Fremantle, to Jessie Jane Marshall Noble, £504 11s. 5d.;... (reference)
1920 Funeral of the late Mrs. Catherine Carmichael Spence, wife of Mr. James Spence, of Messrs. Baker Bros., East Fremantle… (reference)
1928 Vehicle Transfer. 19678: From Charles Ernest Smith to James Spence, Walter-road, East Fremantle, Chrysler. (reference)
1934 Cyclist Injured. Injuries to both arms were sustained by James Royal Sherman...With two other youths Sherman was cycling towards Fremantle, and a motor car, driven by James Spence, of Walter-street, East Fremantle, in the opposite direction, touched the bicycle nearest to him. Sherman fell off, and both rider and machine were struck by Spence's car. Sherman was conveyed to hospital by Spence. (reference)
1934 Death on the 14th February, at the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. James Spence, 6 Walter street, East Fremantle, Roderick Campbell, formerly of Boulder, son of the late John and Sarah Campbell… (reference)
1935 Death on October 31, at East Fremantle, James Spence, of 6 Walter-street, East Fremantle, husband of the late Catherine E. Spence; loving father of Cilia (Mrs. J. McDonald, East Fremantle), and Rod Spence (Applecross): father-in-law of Jack McDonald and Wynn Spence, and fond granddad of Neville, Joan, John and Barbara; aged 68 years. (reference)
1935 Mr. Rod Spence, of Applecross, and Mrs. J. McDonald, of 6 Walter-street, East Fremantle, desire to express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to all friends for kind acts, beautiful floral tributes and written and verbal expressions of sympathy in the loss of their dear father. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1909 - 1917: Noble, Charles S.
1919 - 1920: Myers, William G.
1921 - 1932: Spence, James
1933 - 1936: McDonald, Mrs. J.
1936 - 1938: McDonald, John
1938 - 1949: Gallop, Keith
