ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War, Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 55 Fortescue Street is a single storey house constructed in limestone brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War California Bungalow style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a thrust gable bay and a part width hip roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on square columns set on piers. A masonry balustrade spans between the piers.
HISTORY
1941 When a motor car skidded, apparently on tramlines, along Canning-highway, near Salisbury street, South Perth, about 3.30 p.m. it collided with a tramway pole, bringing down several of the wires. The driver, Leslie Gibson, of the Naval Depot, Fremantle, was travelling north in the highway and pulled out to pass a car travelling in the same direction when his car skidded. Gibson's mother, Mrs. Emily Gibson (52), of Edmund-street, Beaconsfield, who was in the front seat of the car, received a broken shoulder. She was taken to Perth Hospital by the St John Ambulance. The driver of the car was uninjured. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1938 - 1949: Gibson, Leslie
