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Hotel Fremantle
6 High St, opened 1 October 1898, Town Lots 18, 17. Will someone please put the turret back?
Thanks to the Fremantle Library for the 1900 photo ref. no. 1028, with this caption:
The Hotel Fremantle was erected in 1898 to designs by Wilkinson and Smith. The rooms were large, the dining room could seat one hundred guests and the billiard room on the ground floor with attached private bar measured 55 by 40 feet. Construction was of brick with stone cladding. The facade is classified by the National Trust but the pointed turret no longer exists. Tannatt Chambers, 8 High Street, can be seen next on the right. It was designed by architect E H Dean Smith and built in 1899.
The hotel still contains within its north-eastern corner the family home of William Dalgety Moore.
Atlas Chambers (1890) may also be seen on the left of the photo. On the right is a gap after Tannatt Chambers, as Craig's Chambers (1900) has not yet been built.
Hotel Fremantle, 6 High St, corner of Cliff St, lacking its corner turret and flagpole, like the P&O Hotel. This was designed by Wilkinson & Smith, and built in 1898-99 for Bacon Forrest Co., and a renovated version was the Kiwi headquarters for the Americas Cup defence in 1987. 'At that time application of a heavy surface coating masked the texture of the limestone and detail of the stucco mouldings'. (Hutchison: 100) A residence at the rear had been built for WD Moore in 1885. During WW2 it was set up as a hospital and operating theatre. It is now part of the NDU.
Smith:
Members of the family of George Fletcher Moore lived on the site of our hotel. ... Their home is still there; it nestles in the back of the old shape of the Fremantle Hotel. The Donnybrook stone building you see there today was added in the 1890s. (Smith 1999: 92)
Capture from Google Maps (above). The street number 10 is on the house referred to above by Alec Smith. It was the first home of William Dalgety Moore's family.
References and Links
According to Allen Graham, the hotel was opened on 1 October 1898.
Hutchison, David, Fremantle Walks.
Smith, Alec 1999, 'Living in the Fremantle Hotel', Fremantle Studies, 1: 92-110.
Smith, Alec 2004, 'The boy from the West End', in Karen Lang & Jan Newman, Wharf Rats and Other Stories: 100 Years of Growing up in Fremantle, FPS: 110-119.
Photograph of a painting by Toby Leek, courtesy of the artist >
Elizabeth Griffin/Griffen (1864-1927) was the licensee in 1906. See the page for her on the streetsoffreo website.
Alfred Court was licensee in 1898, West Australian, Tuesday 6 December 1898, p. 5.
Streetsoffreo 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 18 September, 2014 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/fremantlehotel.html (it was last updated on 28 November, 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.