20-28 Henry St, Rialto, Marich Buildings

20-28 Henry St (was 32-40 pre 1938), and 36-40 (was 56-58) High Street, The Rialto, Marich Buildings

A two storey series of shops that face both Henry and High Sts, constructed c. 1897 as offices and shops. The design by architect F W Burwell was originally known as the Rialto, imprinted in stucco across the corner and features a decorative parapet with small arched piers.

A single storey stone shop/ residence was on the site prior to 1884, most likely the Royal Hotel (1844 Chauncey-Snell survey).

1906 The Rialto- with Saunders and Nathan in the corner shop, were the premier hairstylists in Fremantle at this time. They also sold tobacco and were the chief suppliers of cigars.

1910 A Miss Meadley, employed at Messrs Saunders and Nathan’s Tobacco Shop, in Fremantle, recognised something in a photograph put into the papers asking for information on missing girl Margaret Bale. She cut the picture out of the paper, encircled the head and neck with a piece of paper, and saw a likeness to ‘Martin Able’, who she remembered. She then communicated her impressions to the authorities…

Nicholas Marich was the owner from 1948 to 1991 and the buildings became know as the 'Marich Buildings’.

In the late 1970s part of the building was a boarding house.

In 1994, alterations were carried out by Ralph Hoare Architect.

2002 under renovation K & S Renovations

2007 Tatoo Parlour

OCCUPANTS

Lot 80 & 81 owners:

1829 - 1837 Steele, W R

1855 - 1859 Hammersley

1876 - 1877 Brockman, H

1878 - 1879 Brockman, E

Land owned by the Brockmans until c 1948

No. 20 (was 32 pre 1938)

1899 Stephens William, restaurant

1900 Teaquer & CO. (E.), restaurant

1904 Jackman, T J, restaurant

1903- 1905 Halleen, Mrs E E, Alhambra cafe and Tearooms

1906 - 1908 Banach Steve, restaurant

1912 - 1919 Alhambra cafe

1912 - 1917 Perara, Joseph

1918 Prior, Mrs M

1919 Wilson, Mrs Nellie

1920 Jones, Mrs May, lodge house

1921 - 1926 Bradford hostel (Benjamin Lorner, proprietor)

1925 Fremantle Boys’ Club

1926 - 1930 Sanitarium Health Food Co.

1927 - 1938 Buffalo Lodge

1933 - 1934 Hollis, E, hardware merchant

1940 - 1941 Thomson J Bowe, plumber

1944 - 1947 Grayson & Co. shipwrights & contractors

1949 Roby & Co A, sheet metal workers

No. 22 (was 34 pre 1938)

1918 - 1919 Alhambra cafe

1918 Prior, Mrs M

1919 Wilson, Mrs Nellie

1920 Jones, Mrs May, lodge house

1924 Murphy, David, tailor

1926 - 1927 Knapp, Jack, tailor

1938 - 1939 Buffalo Lodge

1940 - 1941 Thomson, J Bowe, plumber

1941 - 1943 Vacant (upstairs) Miller Edward, apartments

1944 - 1949 (upstairs) Petitt Robert, apartments

1949 Roby & Co A, sheet metal workers

No. 24 (was 36 pre 1938)

1899 Webster, W S, confectioner

1899 - 1906 Ashton & Badham, painters

1907 Lane, A E, painter

1911 - 1917 Hughes & Bishop, sign writers

1918 - 1919 Martinelli, Angelo

1921 - 1922 The Fremantle Herald

1923 - 1925 Allen, Lt A W

1926 - 1938 Churcher & Co, F W (W H Sharp, prop), forwarding agents

1940 - 1941 Thomson, J Bowe, plumber

1949 Roby & Co A, sheet metal workers

No. 26 (was 38 pre 1938)

1913 - 1914 Otrovski, Isaac, dealer

1915 - 1916 Moscow, J, tailor

1917 Paoli, Pompeo, sailmaker

1918 Hughes & Bishop, sign writers

1919 - 1920 Bishop, Henry J, sign writer, painter, decorator, etc.

1921 - 1946 Churcher & Co, F W, forwarding agents

1926 - 1927 Davies J W, sign writer

1928 - 1929 Port Carrying & Bag Agency

1930 - 1932 Cordingly, Charles, furniture repair

1933 - 1934 State Pres Office

1944 - 1949 Liddelow & Co J S, shipping agents

No. 28 (was 40 pre 1938)

1899 - 1902 Rassmussen, Hans, medical herbalist

1903 - 1905 Morning Herald office, Reuters upstairs?

1906 Wigg & Son, E. S. booksellers & stationers

1938 - 1946 Churcher & Co F W, forwarding agents

1944 - 1949 Liddelow & Co J S, shipping agents

No.38 (was 56 High st pre 1938) Corner shop

1898- 1930 Saunders & Nathan, hairdressers and tocacconists

1931- 1942 Miss L. Cain, tab & hairdresser

1943- 1949 Wilkinson Jas, hairdresser & tobacconist

No. 40 (was 58 High St pre 1938) Rialto chambers:

1897- 1901 Smith Harold E. accountant Millars' Karri & Jarrah Forests, timber merchants & saw millers (W.A. Karri & Jarrah Timber Co. )

1898- 1899 Kessel Richard Williams. dentist.

1898-1899 Rockcliffe & Co (H.). customs & forwarding agents

1898- 1899 Davis & Wilson architects ( from 1899 just Herbert N. Davis)

1898- Smith & Timms, railway contractors, Timms Bros. (J. A.), railway contractors.

1898- 1899 Armitage, Smith & Co. financial agents.

1899- 1908 Horrocks Charles J. manufacturers' agents, becomes 1900 Peacocks "O.K." Jam Co. Chas. J. Horrocks, agent, 1904- becomes Horrocks & Wadham manufacturers,

1899 -1908 Smith Harold E. (Harold E. Smith, D.J. Goyder & R.A. Wadham), accts & auditor. Tel. No. 662 New Zealand Insurance Co. Harold E. Smith, agent Reuter's Telegram Co. Lim. Harold E. Smith, agent. 1904 becomes Reuter's Telegram Co. Ltd. R. A. Wadham, agt.

1902- 1906 PYE & Co. M. Edward, accountants, auditors & liquidators: Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, (M. Edward Pye, sec) and Fremantle District Storekeepers' Assoc. (M. Edward. Pye, sec) Fremantle Free Traders' Assoc. (M. Edward. Pye, sec) National Mutual Life Assoc. M. Edward. Pye, res, agent London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Coy. (M.E. Pye, res. agent)

1902 Hogg Mrs. J. registry office

1903 - 1908 Allen Joseph F. architect

1903- W.A. Supply Co. Ltd. (J.A. Green, mgr 1903), (Wm. H. Kosky, mgr 1905)

1904- Taylor H. L. rep. E. S. & A. Robinson (Eng)

1913 W. A. Tailoring Co. Michael Michaels, proprietor

1919- Martinelli, Flore. Wilson, Mrs Nellie. Castledine, Mrs Clylic. Flocco, Ignazlo, tailor

1921 Martinella, Angelo

1922 Universal Supply Co of W A, storekeepers

1923- 1938 Fremantle Buffalo Club Ltd (changes from 58 to no 40)

1947 Carrington C, manufacturers' agent;

Tinson Thelma, dancing teacher;

Higgins & Isherwood, Painters & decorators

40a- Frank, art gallery

Cleopatra Hotel 24 High St

Cleopatra Hotel

This two storey hotel with highly decorative façade and parapet featuring the words 'Hotel Cleopatra Hotel' was built in 1907- the second Cleopoatra to be built on the land. The façade on the centre of the ground floor and the first floor has banded piers and three stucco archways each forming a loggia. The ground floor has concave bays with pairs of glazed doors below multi-paned transom lights on the left and windows on the right of the façade. There is a pair of double hung sash windows, stucco arched keystone and decorative skirts either side of the first floor loggia.

History
Lot 44 and Lot 61 were originally owned by P H Dod ( 1829-1837), transferred to Alex Francisco (1855-1879). The Francisco family sold the property to Pearse and Owston in 1880.

1836 The first building on the site was ‘The Boarding House’, run by licensee Elizabeth Pace (1795-1879), the wife of Captain Walter Pace, a merchant seaman, often at sea for months, sailing the shipping routes between Indonesia and Fremantle on his vessel, Monkey. Elizabeth, at the age of 46, with the help of her teenage children, ran The Boarding House as a licensed inn and general store, until 1840, when she sold out to Alexander Francisco (1816-1878).

When 23-year-old Alexander Francisco took over the ‘Boarding House’ in 1840 he advertised “having succeeded to the Business of the Hotel lately occupied by Mrs. Pace”. Alexander also advertised that he had a “long experience in Hotel and Tavern business”. It was Francisco who gave the inn the name, ‘The Crown and Thistle’ in 1841.

The Franciscos hosted the Crown and Thistle until 1850, when John Wellard took the reins for a few years. During his time the hotel was often refered to as ‘Wellard’s Hotel’ and it here in August 1851 that the first meetings were held- taking steps to form the Fremantle Mechanic's’ Institute. (reference) In 1852 Philip Dixon, a prisoner in the Convict Establishment, was charged with being drunk and with drinking with a Sapper and Miner in whose charge he was at the time at Wellard's public house. He was ordered 14 days' imprisonment, and to receive bread and water diet, and the Sapper handed over to the Officer of the Military Department. (reference) A recent arrival to the colony, Mary Ann Hunt (on the Clara) was charged with stealing haberdashaery and perfume from Wellards’ Inn and store in 1854 ( reference)

The Franciscos moved next door during this time, where they operated a spirit and wine store, before buying the freehold of the pub, and returning as hosts of the Crown and Thistle in 1853. The next prominent publican of the Crown and Thistle was Joshua Harwood, a retired whaler, who at the age of 42 purchased the pub’s lease from Alexander Francisco in 1868. Harwood remained host through most of the 1870s before selling out to Malachi Reidy Meagher. (see image) (reference)

Captain Edward Henry Fothergill leased it from Pearse and Owston in May 1881, renovated it and reopened 1st July 1881, naming it Cleopatra after a schooner he owned. The hotel had an attractive garden and a sign (by Nicolay) showing the ship Cleopatra in full sail. Fothergill was licensee of the hotel from 1882 until 1896 when he died at the hotel. His son Edward Henry Fothergill (Jnr) was Mayor of Fremantle from 1909-1910 and Councillor from 1920 to 1923.

Talk in 1920: When a small boy I came in the schooner Cleopatra twice before my father decided to settle in Western Australia; these trips were in the years of 1877 and 1879, and it was in 1881 that my father brought the Cleopatra on her last trip to Western Australia with your humble servant on board. This schooner, the Cleopatra, was, in the early days practically the only regular connecting link between Melbourne, Geraldton, and Fremantle. Her trips consisted of bringing goods to Fremantle and Geraldton, and at the latter port loading lead ore for her back loading to Melbourne. (reference)

1896: The lease of the ‘Cleo’, as it is familiarly called, has been secured by Messrs Varley and Nicholl who by the terms of their agreement with the owner have to alter the building so as to make it almost a new structure. In the first place, the familiar patch of ground, bearing its Moreton Bay fig trees, which has for so long been a distinctive feature of the front of the hotel, will speedily be covered with bricks and mortar, instead of foliage. (reference)

1905 About a fortnight ago the licensed victuallers of Fremantle met in solemn conclave and decided to form a branch of the Licensed Victuallers' Association… Mr George Auburn is one of the best known licensees of the port, and is a general favorite. Until a few months ago he conducted three hotels here, trading under the name of Auburn Bros, and Owen. The firm has now only two—the Cleopatra and the Odd fellows. The subject of this photo has personally conducted the Cleopatra Hotel for over three years, and there has made hosts of friends. He is of genial nature, and takes great in-interest in sport, especially foot-ball and motoring. (reference)

Ownership was taken over by the Swan Brewery in 1906, and the building was demolished. Architect J.H. Eales was employed to design a new hotel on the site of the original. The work was completed by C.H Carter in August 1907.

The wooden verandahs were removed in the 1960s.

The ‘Cleo’ continued to be popular with sailors on shore leave for many decades. It was also noted as a place where prostitutes and gay men could meet sailors.

“There is no mention of the the heady days of the 1970’s. I believe the pub was owned by Len Buckridge and Fred Pawle was manager. The pub I think was the first pub in Perth to be granted a 12 oclock closing.” Robyn (reference)

“Cleo’s was the place to go and have fun. It was a seedy part of Fremantle. If you wanted conservative, high-class, well-established, you did the Perth scene but Fremantle was sailors, crims, knock-a-bouts, night clubs, all the good time girls… Us ‘girls’ were expert in reading the shipping guides and the timetables. We would know when ships were coming in at any given time… Envelopes would be behind the bar with our names on them and with our cab fares over to the wharves. The captains never used to worry about us. I spent two weeks on one of the merchant navy ships once. We were those ports in any storm. Or, we were those storms in any port, if you like!” Trans men, working the ports in the 1970s, quoted in The Gay Museum, exhibition, 2003, WA Museum.

In 1985 it was renovated for the America’s Cup Defence and briefly called the ‘Auld Mug Tavern’. On 4 Feb 1987 Dennis Conner and the crew of ‘Stars and Stripes’ won the America’s Cup after defeating the defender “Kookaburra 111’ skippered by Ian Murray- in a best of seven races in Gage Roads.

From 1993 to 1997 the hotel was known as the ‘West End’ and in 1997 was changed to ‘Coakley’s Hotel’, before returning to Cleopatra.

The building was bought by the Christian Brothers. From c. 2000 it has been used by Tuart Place, a not for profit organisation supporting people who are victims of institutional abuse.

Occupants

1836 - 1840 Mrs Elizabeth Pace

1840 - 1868 Alex Francisco

1852 John Wellard (reference)

1868 - 1876 Joshua Harwood

1876 - 1879 Malachi Reidy Meagher

1879 - Patrick Maloney

1880 Pearse and Owston

1881 - 1896 E H Fothergill

1897 Varley & Nicholl

1898 - 1899 Henry Higgins

1900 - 1901 Cleopatra Hotel (Archibald McKinnon)

1902 - 1906 - (George Auburn)

1906 Swan Brewery

1907- new building- C H Carter

1908 - 1909 Cleopatra Hotel (James Bolger)

1910 - 1897 Cleopatra Hotel (Albert Button 1910-1915)

1916 Cleopatra Hotel (James Morrison 1916- 1917)

1939 - 1942 Cleopatra Hotel (M E Mackay)

1942 - 1945 Cleopatra Hotel (A M Morton)

1946 - 1947 Cleopatra Hotel (Alfd Brewer)

1949 Cleopatra Hotel (H C Coughian)

1970s Cleopatra Hotel Manager- Fred and Maureen Pawle (for Len Buckridge Company?)

1985 more than $50,000 was spent on renovations and it was renamed the Auld Mug Tavern, the unofficial pub for the Amerisca’s cup challenge
1993 - 1997 name changed to the West End Hotel
1997 name changed to Coakley’s.
2001 - 2022 Bought by Christian Brothers -Ground floor used by Tuart Place

2001-2020 Notre Dame University, as the Edmund Rice Centre - leased the upstairs rooms for students. It is no longer affiliated with Notre Dame University.

24 Mouat St

Notre Dame University ND24 and 25 - Formerly Naval Drill Hall, School of Philosophy & Theology

Corner Croke St and Marine Terrace

Lot 1374/1377 (former Crown Land)

In 1924 The Bruce-Page Federal Government built the Drill Hall. It opened as a Naval Cadet Training Centre, named HMAS Cerberus V on 8 October 1926:

1926: The ball was a huge success, some 480 couples being on the floor. The new drill hall is the largest of its kind in the Commonwealth. (reference)

1930 About 250 members of the 44th Battalion marched through 'the main streets of Fremantle on Thursday night. At the Town Hall the Mayor of Fremantle (Mr. F. E. Gibson) took the salute. The battalion marched back to the drill hall, where supper was provided by the Mayor and councillors. At the back of this picture of the drill hall can be seen the battalion colours and some of the trophies won during the past year. (reference)

21 May 1932 NAVAL RESERVE Ball in Drill Hall. The Royal Australian Naval Reserve held the first of their enjoyable naval balls for the season in the drill hall, Mouatt-street, Fremantle, last evening. Streamers of gay tonings radiated from the centre of the ball and the stage was set with a gay leafy scene. Flags and shields of the arms of the States of the Commonwealth decorated the walls, and in the centre there was a model Island with working model of a lighthouse and tiny house attached. The work was chiefly done by Commissioned Instructor O. Harmon and Dr. Martell, and the island followed in general outline Breaksea Island, in St. George's Sound. (reference)

1935 NAVY v. MILITARY BOXING- Naval and military authorities are arranging for the annual Navy versus Military boxing tournament next month. The contest will decide the winner of a trophy, and will be held in the Navy Drill Hall, Cliff-street, Fremantle. Members of the public will be invited. (reference)

1937 A call for men to become Gunners and join the 7th Heavy Artillery Brigade to defend the Australian coastline... 'Enlistment particulars can be had at the Swan Barracks or at Fremantle drill hall’. (reference)

In 1941 the Drill Hall was renamed HMAS Leeuwin. Many naval recruits and cadets received their training and instruction in seamanship, gunnery and navigation at the drill hall before departing to fight in World War II.

1947 Even Fremantle visitors will be surprised at the wide variety of goods produced in Fremantle on show at the Fremantle Industries Fair, which was opened at the Military Drill Hall, Fremantle, by the Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. Watts) last night. The fair has been organised by the Advance Fremantle Association… (reference)

1949 Deaf and dumb player Kevin Cooper (21) , of Plain st., East Perth, won two events at the table tennis tournament held in the Military Drill Hall, Fremantle, this week. Cooper won the final of the City of Fremantle men's handicap singles and, with Miss I. Levitzke, of Hay-st: East Perth, won the mixed handicap doubles, repeating their success of last year. (reference)

In 1964 the Commonwealth Maritime Safety Authority took over the building, made substantial alterations to the exterior and used it as a workshop and offices. (reference)

1999 Notre Dame

The major expansion of the Fremantle Campus beyond the original properties involved the acquisition of the Drill Hall in Mouat Street, which became a major facility for the University for lectures, and for graduation ceremonies, social functions and public lectures and events. It also contained much-needed academic offices. It was purchased from the Commonwealth through the personal intervention of the then Labor Prime Minister, Mr Paul Keating, following his attendance as guest of honour and principal speaker at a UNDA graduation ceremony in March, 1994. (reference)

McDonald Smith Building

McDonald Smith Building 22-32 Cliff St

Architecture The McDonald Smith Building- designed, as ‘Cliff Street Chambers’, by architect Herbert Nathaniel Davis. It is a two storey rendered building with zero setback from the pavement. The building has a parapet with spheres crowning small-engaged pilasters and decorative pediments. The ground floor façade has arched doors and windows, with stucco above and a single level entrance on the south side; the first floor has sash windows.

History The McDonald Smith Building is built across 2 Lots: Lot 21 was originaly owned by Henry Vincent (1829-1837), transferred to Stockley (1855-1859). A cottage and warehouse were established on Lot 21 from the 1870s.

Lot 22 was retained by Henry Vincent (1829-1859). Both Lots 21 and 22 were then owned by William Vincent (1876-1879). The Vincent Family had a cottage and warehouse on the site in the 1870s and 1880s.

There are relics of a former lime washed and shingled house at the rear of this building. There were minor changes to the warehouse in 1961, 1962 and 1973.

OCCUPANTS

1897 Cliff Street chambers: Thomas W. J. Kiffin, produce mer / STANBURY & SHAW, customs, shipping & forwarding agents.  First floor. HARROLD BROS. (Wm. A. Fraser, manager) , general merchants / Davis & WIlson, architechs / PYNE, TRELOAR & CO. customs, shipping & forwarding agents/ Wood Son & Co. (G.), grocers & importers / SIMONDS & CO. (ERNEST T.), forwarding & customs agents,Coolgardie / Fysh B. manufacturers' agent / Holman, Haines & Co. accountants &c., / Smith Harold E. accountant. & auditor / Atkins & Co. Limited (Charles), oil merchants (lubricating)/ Reuter's Telegram Co. Limited (Harold E. Smith, rep) / South Aust. Ins. Co. Limited (fire & marine) (H. E. Smith, agent) / Torbay, Karri & Jarrah Timber Co. (C. & E.Millar) (H. Teesdale Smith, manager) / Henderson Edgar J. architect / Gilfillan W. D. manufacturers' agent / Peterson & Co. (William), tea merchants (W. D. Gilfillan, rep) / McKenzie & Co. (James F.), importers (W. D. Gilfillan, rep) / CADD FRANK, customs, shipping & forwarding agent / South British Insurance Co. (fire & marine) (Frank Cadd, agent)   Right of way: Fremantle Stevedoring Co. (Capt. John Abbott), stevedores / Knox A. Graham, importer / Imperial Fire Ins. Co. Limited (A. Graham Knox, agent)

1898 Cliff Street Chambers:   Ground Floor: Flindell, Fraser & Co. customs agents / Thomas W. J. Kiflin, produce mer / Glassford, Cooke & Co. Proprietary Lim, (J. Murdoch, Mgr), produce merchants.   First Floor: Haines & Co. (O. L.), customs, shipping and forwarding agents / Moorhouse & Co. (O.L.), customs, shipping & forwarding agents / Webster William, marine surveyor / Wigmore F. E. customs agent / Wigmore H. J. commision agent / Crossland C. contractor / Guilfoyle William, customs agent / Calthrop Bros, mercantile brokers / Knox H. R. customs & forwarding agent / Doeling F. mercantile broker / Gilfillan W. D. agent for Wood Dunn & Co, Lim, produce merchants, Melbourne / Yeates & Co. customs & forwarding agents / Cadd Frank, customs, shipping & forwarding agent.    Off Cliff-street:  Fremantle Stevedoring Co. (Capt. John Abbot), stevedores

1904 - 1905 (30) Haywood F. M. customs agent / (32) Macfarlane & Co. Jas. provision merchants

1907 - 1911 (30) Gruer David J. customs & forwdg. agent

1912 - 1917 (32) Gruer Dav. J. customs. & forwarding agent

1909 (28) Adams & Co. (G. H), wine, spirit & gen. Importers

1912 - 1920 (24) Millars' Timber & Trading Co. Ltd. (H F Briggs, Mgr)

1915 (30) Davey Jas. Carrier

1917 - 1920 (28) O'Sullivan Jno. J. lime & stone merchants / Gruer, Dav J,. Customs & for agt

1931 - 1937 (32) Lanzar, Salvatore

1931 - 1932 (28) Lester, Mrs A, carrier / O'Sullivan, Jno J, lime & stone merchant

1936 - 1938 (24) Daly Bros., carriers/ (28) Lester (Mrs A.), carrier

1938 - 1943 (26) Nicola Candatore (Pres. Blessding of the Fleet c’mittee)

1938 - 1940 (off 32) Morris & Co. (M.), marine dealers

1941 - 1943 (28) Marchesi, Mrs. A.Corieri, Anopus

1940 - 1943 (off 32) Rodriguez & Lee, wool merchants

1941 - 1943 (30-32) Farindo, Cosmo

1944 (32) Lee (Eric E.), wool merchant

1946 - 1947 (20-32) Department of Navy

1949 (20-22) Rutland (R. A.), electrician & refrigerator engineers / (28) Sherborne (F. J.), customs agents

The buildings were also owned by Captain Lilly, and then J.E. McDonald and Smith from 1961 until the 1970s and then Tompkins and Company as a general store.