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Marine House
Leake Street, 1890
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The (1920s) photo of Mulligan's Providoring Company in Leake Street appears on page 197 of Old Fremantle. The source is given as 'Fremantle Providoring, Poore'. The extant two-storey building is now called Marine House. (There is another Marine House at 1 Essex Street - and was yet another in Pakenham Street?)
Heritage Council:
The Fremantle Providoring Company was at 7-9 Leake Street.
1890 council rate books list a warehouse and offices (new). It is unclear whether the warehouse was replaced, or whether offices were added to the front of the warehouse. The number of buildings on the lots increased over the following years. The 1905-06 rates records show warehouses and offices on lot 403 and 404, and six old cottages on lot 405. All the buildings were occupied by the Vacuum Oil Co.
By 1910 lots 404 & 405 were owned by Jane Marion Waldeck and John Joseph Higham, and occupied by the Olympia skating rink, which appear to have been built on lots 405 and 406, and operated until at least 1915. (Currently 'Olympia' shops and apartments).
The Fremantle Provedoring Co occupied the building in 1920. The property remained in the Waldeck family until the 1950s.
My snap 2017. To the left of Marine House is the back of the temporary police station (formerly a branch of the National Australia bank, in High Street).
Heritage Council continues:
Two storey rendered building with a decorative parapet and pediment and a zero setback from the pavement. The ground floor features; ashlar effect rendering and a central entrance with arched fanlights over the paneled doors and sash windows. The first floor has engaged pilasters flanking the recessed and arched windows and fanlights.
The place is of historic significance as an example of a commercial building in the Old Port City of Fremantle dating from the gold boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The place is significant because, when viewed from the street, it is a substantially intact example of a commercial building which contributes to the very significant Old Port City of Fremantle. The place is of social significance as evidenced by its classification by the National Trust. Heritage Council.
Three men outside the premises of the Fremantle Providoring Company, Ships Chandlers. The company was established in Leake Street in the 1920s. W. Mulligan was the manager. They contracted to all leading shipping companies for the supply of fresh vegetables, fruit and fish. Fremantle Library caption and photo c. 1930, ref. no. 1999. >
References and Links
Dowson, John 2003, Old Fremantle: Photographs 1850-1950, UWAP.
Heritage Council page
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 30 September, 2017 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/marinehouse.html (it was last updated on 3 April, 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.