ARCHITECTURE
No 250 Canning Highway is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gabled corrugated iron roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. The place is located on a corner lot that addresses both Canning Highway and Clayton Street. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a central flat roofed porch flanked by gable bays. The porch is supported on masonry piers. A masonry balustrade with rendered and decorative brick motifs spans between the piers. Stairs from the porch to the garden flank both sides of the porch. The half timbered, gable bays feature flat roofed sunhoods over sets of casement windows. There is a central door under the porch. Lower walls are face brick and the upper walls rendered. The roofscape features render capped chimneys but the original tiled roof has been replaced with corrugated iron sheeting.
PHYSICAL SETTING
The residence is situated on a sloping site with a low rendered wall and close boarded timber fence on the lot boundary.
HISTORY
1930 Miss. Maisie Abbott Campbell (Dip. D.S.) Surgeon Dentist, Has commenced practice at 250 Canning-Road(or corner of Clayton-street and Canning-road) East Fremantle. (reference)
1932 Death on September 23, at Moreland, Victoria, James Ward, beloved father of Mrs. Bruce Campbell, grandfather of Maisie and Reginald, of 250 Canning-road, East Fremantle. (reference)
1938 Garage and Car Burnt. A garage at the house of Mr. D. F. Carbarns, Merchant, at 250 Canning-road, East Fremantle, was completely destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, and a sedan car in the garage met a similar fate. One engine from the Fremantle fire station, in the charge of District Officer Wright, attended the fire, the cause of which was unknown… (reference)
1953 Death on Sept. 17, at Fremantle, Maria Mangano, of 250 Canning-highway, East Fremantle, late of Bunbury and South Coogee, widow of the late Gaetano Mangano, loved mother of Graziella (Mrs. C. Travia), Antonino, Francesco and Salvatore, mother-in-law of Claude, Pasqua, Lina, Tindara, and fond grandmother of 12 grandchildren; aged 64 years. R.I.P. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1931 - 1934: Campbell W, Abbott (Surgeon Dentist)
1935 - 1941: Carbarns, Don F.
1941 - 1945: Webb, Lindsay W.
1946 - 1949: Fountain, Gordon J.
1953: Mangano, Maria
