ARCHITECTURE
No 140 Canning Highway is a single storey house constructed (c 1984) in rendered brick and masonry house with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is set on a steeply rising site and is a fine example of the Federation Queen Anne style. The lot spans between Canning Highway and Hillside Road. The place is symmetrically composed with a full width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on turned timber posts. A vertical timber balustrade spans between the posts. There is a central door and hopper light flanked by sidelights and polygonal bay windows. The bay windows feature double hung sash windows. Each bay window extends above the verandah and features a hipped roof. The roofscape features tall render capped chimneys. There is a broad set of steps leading from the verandah to the garden.
HISTORY
Herbert Baker was a prominent butcher in East Fremantle ( see the history of Glasson Park). His daughter Yvonne Baker lived there from 1934.
1917 Birth on June 20, at Avondale, Canning-road, East Fremantle, to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gilbert Baker—a son (Raymond Neil) - lived two days. (reference)
1917 Death on June 21, at Avondale, Canning-road, East Fremantle, Raymond Neil, the beloved son of Herbert Gilbert and Louise Matilda Baker, aged 2 days. (reference)
1922 The engagement is announced of Linda, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baker, of Canning-road, East Fremantle, to Mr. Alex Anderson, only son of Mrs. M. Anderson, of Fremantle, and the late Mr. G. Anderson. (reference)
1927 The engagement is announced of Adelaide, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Gill, Kulyalling, to Maxwell J. Baker, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baker, of Avondale, Canning-road, East Fremantle. (reference)
1927 Marriage on July 20, at Kulyalling Hall, by the Rev. P. R. Ferris, G. A. (Bert), second son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baker, of Avondale, Canning-road, East Fremantle, to Thelma, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Gill, of Kulyalling. (reference)
1928 The engagement is announced between Sylvia, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baker, of Avondale, Canning-road, East Fremantle, and Horace, only, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Killington, of Real-del-Monte, Hillway, Nedlands. (reference)
1928 Obituary. Mrs. Louisa Matilda Baker, wife of Mr. Herbert G. Baker, died on March 17 at her late residence, "Avondale," 140 Canning-road, East Fremantle. The deceased, who had been in ill-health for the past nine years, was born at Clare, South Australia. During her 32 years' residence in Fremantle she made many friends, by whom she will be sadly missed. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1909: Pfuhl, Otto (see information under Notable people section)
1926 - 1949: Baker, Herbert G.
