Town Lot 56

Henry Street, between High and Phillimore Streets.

The first owner of Lot 56 (and Lot 55) (as recorded by [[../hitchcock.html|Hitchcock]]) was [[../people/heardwilliam.html|William Heard]].

Lot 56, no. 1 Henry Street, is currently a Notre Dame staff car park. It was formerly the site of Lodge's [[../hotels/castle.html|Castle Hotel]], which became the Fremantle [[../clubs/workers.html|Workers Club]], which had the building demolished for a carpark for its members.
Next to it is the new building of NDU's building ND46: School of Health Sciences (no. 35?) Phillimore St on the corner with Henry St, on Lot 55. It was designed, like another two or three of Notre Dame's new buildings in the West End, by the firm of Marcus Collins, who died in 2015. In 1844, this was the site of [[../buildings/heard.html|Heard's boatshed]], on lots 55-56.

Hitchcock 1919:
We have now come to the large three-storied building at present occupied by the [[../clubs/workers.html|Workers’ Club]]. This was built by a Mr [[../hotels/lodges.html|Lodge for a hotel]], but did not prove a financial success, being on too ambitious a scale for the times. At the time we speak of [1869] it was the private residence of Mr. [[../people/moorewd.html|W. D. Moore]].

References and Links

Fremantle History Centre. Look for the PDFs called:
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1829-1837
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1855-1879

Hitchcock, J.K. 1919, [[../books/hitchcock1919.html|'Early Days of Fremantle: High Street 50 Years Ago']], Fremantle Times, one of a series of articles on 'Early Days of Fremantle' publ. 21 March - 20 June 1919.

Freotopia

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 December, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/lots/56.html (it was last updated on 15 February, 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.