ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Spanish Mission Decorated Porch House
No 9 Gill Street is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a hipped and gabled tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Spanish Mission style. The treatment of the front porch and garage parapet is particularly notable. It is asymmetrically composed with a gabled roofed porch. The porch features three arches supported on piers and Corinthian columns. The porch sits proud of the house. There is a central door flanked by casement and fixed light windows. There is an integrally designed garage to the north of the house. A curved parapet fronts the garage.
The place retains its form and most of its details. There are additions to the rear.
The place is consistent with the building pattern in the Precinct. The place plays an important role in the pattern of development of a middle class suburb.
HISTORY
1932 Youth Badly Injured. Name on Danger List. Edmund Smith (about 17), of 27 South crescent, Bayswater. an employee of Harris. Scarfe and Sandovers,' Ltd., was critically injured when he was thrown from his push cycle from a collision in Wellington-street, between George street and Milligan-street, shortly after 10 a.m. yesterday. He was taken to the Perth Hospital by the St. John ambulance and admitted suffering from a probable fracture of the left knee, injuries to the right knee and. back, and severe shock.His name was placed on the danger list. Smith was riding his push cycle west along Wellington-street, in the same direction as. a motor car driven by Wilfred Howe, of 44 Thomas-street, South Fremantle, which collided with a car driven in the opposite direction by Marin Alach of North Beach-road, Osborne Park. In the collision, the circumstances of which are not clear, Smith was thrown heavily to the road. Both cars were badly damaged and had to be towed from the scene of the accident, but the cycle was undamaged. Howe and Jack Papich, of North Beach-road, Balcatta. a passenger in Alach's car, were slightly hurt, but not sufficiently to necessitate hospital treatment. (reference)
1938 Birth on March 28, at Tresillian Hospital, Nedlands, to Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Howe, of 9 Gill street, East Fremantle—a bonny baby boy (stillborn). Mother doing well. (reference)
1948 Death on August 10, 1948 at her residence, 137 Goderich-street, East Perth, Emily, widow of Sydney Herbert King, loving mother of Nell, Alice (Mrs. Frank Whitford) Maud (Mrs. Wallace Hodgson) Lilly, Grace (Mrs. Wilfred Howe) and Doug: aged 80 years. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1937 - 1941: Howe, Wilfred A.
1941 - 1946: Moncur, John C.
1947 - 1949: Howe, W. A.
