ARCHITECTURE
Aesthetic & Representative
No. 72 Allen Street ‘Tralee’ is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a hipped tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a full width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah is set on timber posts. The front door is located on the north elevation under the return verandah. The front facade features a multi pane door and casement windows.
HISTORY
Robert Joseph Cusack (NAA Record) (AIF Record)
See Robert’s photograph in the Western Mail (16 October 1916), alongside those of his four brothers and widowed mother. Of the five Cusack brothers, four were wounded in WW l. (reference)
1937 Death on September 20 (suddenly), at Narembeen (W.A.), Robert Joseph Cusack, beloved husband of Catherine Cusack, of Tralee, 72 Allen-street, East Fremantle, and loving father of Bobbie, Margaret and Jack; aged 56 years, Bob, loving brother of Matt and Berne…Funeral. Fremantle Lumpers' Union…The Members of the above Union are respectfully informed that the remains of their late Comrade, Mr. Robert Joseph Cusack, of Tralee, 72 Allen-street, East Fremantle, and formerly of the 51st Battalion, A.I.F., will be interred in the Roman Catholic portion of the Karrakatta Cemetery. (reference)
1942 George Waters was the son of George and Sarah Ann Waters a well known family in Albany, who in partnership with A.A Armstrong, ran the tug-boat business in Albany for some years. (reference)
1949 Permit to build a Flat…F. H. Harlock, 72 Allen-street, East Fremantle… (reference)
RESIDENTS
1929 - 1939: Cusack, Robert Joseph
1939 - 1941: Cusack, Mrs Catherine
1941 - 1949: Waters, George
