ARCHITECTURE
Interwar Bungalow w Federation Influences
No 37 Fortescue Street is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a hipped tiled roof. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a full width return skillion roof verandah. The verandah is supported on timber posts with brackets. A vertical timber balustrade spans between the posts. The entry door is located under the return verandah. The front facade features sets of casements including a corner suite. There is a lunette window at the end of the verandah.
HISTORY
1942 Mrs. Ramsdale, 31 Solomon-street, Palmyra, and Mr. and Mrs. Richards, 37 Fortescue street, East Fremantle, wish to sincerely thank all friends for telegrams, letters, cards, floral tributes and personal expressions of sympathy in the recent loss of their dear husband and father. (reference)
1949 When Arthur Horace Richards (40), of Fortescue-street, East Fremantle, was driving a truck loaded with bricks north along North lake-road, Bibra Lake, at 7.30 p.m. yesterday, he collided with the rear of a petrol waggon driven by Stanley Herbert Hocking Birt (30) of Ord-street, Fremantle. Pushed forward by the impact, the bricks forced the canopy of the truck down almost to the dashboard, trapping Richards in the cabin. The petrol waggon had slackened speed to avoid some large pieces of firewood on the road. Although uninjured Richards had to be released by Birt and several residents who had been attracted to the scene by the noise of the crash. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1918 - 1925: Miller, Mark
1926 - 1937: Wray, William
1938 - 1940: Cooper, Henry J.
1940 - 1949: Richards, Arthur H.
