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| Birth: | 30 April 1855 in Canterbury |
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| Death: | 7 October 1936 in Albany |
| Authority control: | Wikidata: Q5763989 |
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Hillson Beasley (1855-1936) an architect responsible for a number of significant buildings in Fremantle.
He was born in Canterbury, Kent, arriving in Perth from Melbourne in 1896. He worked in the Public Works Department under first George Temple Poole and then John Grainger, becoming chief architect 1905-17. He died and was buried in Albany.
He designed or was responsible for Government House ballroom (1899), WA Parliament House (1900), Claremont Teachers Training College (1902), Perth Modern School (1909-11), and in Fremantle, the [[../post/index.html|Post Office]] (1907), the 'old' Customs House (1908), Fremantle [[../schools/tech.html|Technical College]], cnr South Tce and Essex St.
[[../buildings/customshouse.html|Customs House]], Phillimore Street
Fremantle [[../post/index.html|Post Office]], Market Street
[[../schools/tech.html|Technical College]], South Terrace, Essex Street
References and Links
Hannah Lewi 2005, bio in ADB.
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 26 January, 2019 and hosted at freotopia.org/architects/beasley.html (it was last updated on 7 December, 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.