15 Windsor Road

15 Windsor Road (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Inter-War Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences

No 15 Windsor Road 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 Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with a full width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah terminates at a gable bay on the south elevation. It is supported on timber posts with post brackets. The entry is located on the south elevation under the return verandah. The front elevation features pairs of multi pane double hung sash windows. The roof has a shallow pitch and features a sweeping gable, a rendered chimney and finials. The gable features a louvred vent. The walls are face brick to sill height and rendered above.

HISTORY

1926 Furnish With Comfort. At W. O. Danielson's. Mr. W. O. Danielson, Leake-street, Fremantle, announces that it is his aim to assist the householder to furnish with comfort, at a moderate cost. He will make to submitted designs, guaranteeing low prices and best workmanship. Customers up to date have been so pleased that with increased business, he has been forced into enlarging this premises. Ice-chests are a necessity for the summer, and these are a special line. A visit of inspection to his works, at the. rear of the Princess Theatre, will be of interest to intending house furnishers. (reference)

1929 W. O. Danielson (‘Scotty') is Growing with the Times. Five years ago Mr. W. O. ("Scotty") Danielson decided that working for an employer was not the way in which satisfactory progress could be made, and so he "made up his mind to get out of the ruck and commence business as a cabinet maker, French polisher and furniture manufacturer... (reference)

1936 Assault in Hotel. Fine Imposed. An argument in a hotel had a sequel in the Fremantle Police Court on Monday, When William Oliver Danielson was charged with having, in the National Hotel on April 8th, used abusive and insulting words to Jack Lewis, and Jack Lewis was charged with having unlawfully assaulted William Oliver Danielson. (reference)

1940 Death on April 4, suddenly, at East Fremantle, Abel Dickins, late of Pithara, husband of the late Sarah Dickins and beloved father of Archie, Bernard and Leslie, of Pithara, and Ciss (Mrs. W. O. Danielson), of 15 Windsor-road, East Fremantle; aged 66 years. (reference)

1940 Marriage on August 10, at St. Alban's Church, Highgate Hill, by Rev. C. W. Ker, Keith Lewis Airey, third son of Captain and Mrs. J. J. Airey, of Windsor-road, East Fremantle, to Phyllis Neville, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stone, of Dumbleyung. (reference)

1944 Death on September 19, suddenly, at his residence, 6 Tuckfield-street, Fremantle, Edward George Lewis, dearly beloved father of George and Lucia of 15 Windsor-road, East Fremantle; aged 62 years. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1927 - 1941: Danielson, William Oliver

1941 - 1942: Airey, Keith L.

1942 - 1945: Lewis, Mrs. R.

1946: Lewis, Edwin G.

1947 - 1949: Brown, W. L.

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