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Glanville's buildings
34-36 Canning Highway and 5A/5B Riverside Road East Fremantle
Built in 1902 for Henry C. Glanville, a pharmacist, and constructed of limestone with an Italianate facade. Glanville had a shop on the ground floor and lived above it. The other shop was used by tailors Rummer and Sweet. The building was restored to two luxury units in 1980 by architect Bradley Kelsall.
I find it somewhat surprising that there were two pharmacists operating almost directly across the road from each other. Henry Glanville had been in the pharmaceutical business in his building from 1902 when in 1910 Tom Owen started up in the same business just across on the corner of Hubble Street.
Glanville’s Building, 34-36 Canning Highway and 5A & 5B Riverside Rd East Fremantle, was built [designed] in 1902 by Norman Hitchcock for Mr Henry Charles Glanville, a chemist of Market Street, Fremantle, in 1902. The ground floor (street level) of the building housed two shops: a pharmacy from which Mr Glanville dispensed his potions, and a tailor shop operated by Rummer and Sweet. The basement and upper floors of the building were used for storage and the Glanville family's accommodation. The Glanville family owned the building until 1946. It was renovated in 1981 and was entered on the State Heritage Register with permanent listing in 1994.
The Glanville Building is located at 34-36 Canning Highway and 5A & 5B Riverside Road, Glanville's Building is a brick residence with rendered details and low-pitched corrugated iron roof that is concealed by a dominant decorative, flamboyant parapet. It is a very fine and eccentric expression of the Federation Free Classical style. The street elevation accommodated two shopfronts with entrance doors and modest windows. Glanville's Buildings exhibits many of architect Hitchcock's 'signature' details. Spread over a two storey facade the contrast of stucco decoration against tuck-pointed brickwork is quite striking and quite unlike any other building in Perth.
The Glanville Building, although altered internally, is the best example of the work of architect Hitchcock. Hitchcock designed a number of terrace houses in Melbourne, however, Glanville's Building is the only known three-story example by Hitchcock in Western Australia. Other Hitchcock buildings in the East Fremantle area include: the 'George Street Mews', 107-121 George Street; terrace houses at 46-52 King Street; two semi-detached houses at 25-27 Sewell Street and a gable-fronted detached house in Hubble Street. Hitchcock also built [designed] the National Hotel in Fremantle.
List of residents (from Streets of East Fremantle)
1909 - 1911: Mrs. H. Glanville (draper), Henry C. Glanville (chemist)
1912: Henry C. Glanville (chemist)
1913: Henry C. Glanville (chemist), Mrs C. Glanville (dressmaker)
1914 - 1915: Henry C. Glanville (chemist)
1916: Henry C. Glanville (chemist), Mrs. H. Glanville (draper)
1917 - 1918: Mrs. C. D. Glanville (draper)
1919 - 1920: Mrs. J. Ross (greengrocer), Albert Elliot (plumber)
1921: Mrs. C. Griffiths (stre), Mrs. Rose Howson, F. J. Spencer (ptmbr)
1922: Mrs S. Lancaster (stre), Rummer & Sweet (tirs)
1923 - 1927: Mrs. C. Gardner (dressmaker), Rummer & Sweet (tirs)
1928 - 1930: Public Works Department; Rummer & Sweet (tirs)
1931 - 1934: W. E. Caple (wire wks), Rummer & Sweet (tirs)
1934 - 1937: W. E. Caple (wire wks), Vacant
1937 - 1938: W. E. Caple, (wire wks), Ernest Roberts
1938 - 1941: Vacant
1941 - 1942: Mrs. Elizabeth Fardig, Mrs. Nancy Ross
1942 - 1945: Mrs. Elizabeth Fardig, Vacant
1946 - 1947: William Brennan, Miss Amy McIber
1949: William Brennan & Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Dawson
References and Links
Heritage Council assessment, author: Town of East Fremantle
Streets of East Fremantle page for this building.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 14 January, 2020 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/glanville.html (it was last updated on 30 March, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.