ARCHITECTURE
Late Victorian / Early Federation / Domestic Carpenter
No. 8 (previously was no. 20) East street is a duplex constructed in timber framing and jarrah weatherboard cladding with a hipped corrugated iron roof. It is a good expression of the Federation Bungalow style applied to a duplex. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a small gable in the hipped roof. The facade features a skillion roofed verandah on timber posts. The verandah extends the full width of the house with a deep lain frieze at the tops of the posts.
The adjoining 4-6 East Street residences are identical.
HISTORY
1911 Funeral. The Friends of Mr. John Breen are respectfully invited to follow the remains of his late beloved wife, Mary Jane, to the place of interment, the Roman Catholic portion of the Fremantle Cemetery. The Funeral is appointed to leave his residence, No. 20 East-street, East Fremantle... (reference)
1917 Advertising Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills. 20 East Street, East Fremantle, W.A. Dear Sirs, I have found Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills very useful as a medicine for the relief of Constipation, also as a blood purifier they are good. You have my consent to use this testimony for publication. (Signed) Mrs Nellie Gray. (reference)
1921 Funeral. The Friends of the late Mr. William Henry Fay, of the Stores Department, W.A. Government Railways, Midland Junction, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Karrakatta. The Funeral will leave the residence of his mother, Mrs. Annie Fay, 20 East-street, East Fremantle (reference)
1951 Death on March 21, at his residence, 8 East-street. East Fremantle, James Hubert Mathews, dearly beloved husband of Ida May Mathews; aged 72 years. (reference)
1951 Death. The Friends of the late Mrs. Ida May Mathews, late of 8 East-street, East Fremantle, widow of the late James Mathews, are respectfully informed that her remains will be interred in the Anglican portion of the Fremantle Cemetery… (reference)
RESIDENTS
1909: Watkins, William
1911: Breen, John
1912: Cumming, James. H.
1914: Miller, Mrs. A.
1915: Calder, John
1916 - 1917: Gray, Nathaniel
1918 - 1919: Goddard, William T.
1920 - 1921: Butler, Alexander
1922: Togerdine, William James
1923 - 1924: Miller, Edward
1925: Stratton, Herbert
1926: Ellingford, John William
1927: Mellowship, Arthur
1928 - 1949: Mathews, James H.
