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Girton House is a two-storey residence near the high point of Ellen Street, at number 75. It was built in 1890.
Residence built for himself by Ewald Ulrich. After 1914 it was acquired by the C of E to house the headmistress, her deputy and the boarders of Girton College, aka the former (boys) Fremantle Grammar School.
The name Girton is from the 1948 Cambridge women's college - now coed.
References
- George Seddon; Barbara Haddy Looking at an Old Suburb: A Walking Guide to Four Blocks of Fremantle 2000 (UWA Press)
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 28 December, 2014 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/girtonhouse.html (it was last updated on 22 October, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.