Architecture
Inter-War Inter-War Californian Bungalow
No 79 Petra Street is a single storey house constructed in 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 gabled roofed porch. The porch is supported on square columns set on piers. The porch roof extends across the thrust bay. The thrust bay features a chimney breast and chimney flanked by casement windows. There is a central door flanked by sets of lead lighted casement windows.
History
1940 Birth on June 23, at St. Helen's Hospital. East Fremantle, to Irene and Jim Bell, of 79 Petra street, a son (Dennis William). Both well. (reference)
Residents
1940 - 1949: Bell, James
