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The Navy Warehouse or Naval Store is a building on Canning Highway, at the intersection with Queen Victoria Street (the Heritage Council gives the address as 141 Queen Victoria Street)
This ugly shed has been the entrance to Fremantle statement greeting people coming over the traffic bridge since 1935. It was made even worse when someone painted an octopus on it a few years ago. The new bridge planned for 2022-ish will still land with it in plain view, just a bit further to the viewer's right. Unfortunately, it's seen as 'heritage'.
Enkel Collective manages the use of the building.
In November 2021 it was used as part of the [[../arts/biennale2021/index.html|Fremantle Biennale 2021]].
A plaque on the building says this:
Constructed in the mid 1930s, this steel frame, rendered brick-walled building is an example of the Inter-War Functionalist architectural style and is dissimilar to all other Barracks structures.
It was leased to the Navy from the Army from its construction up until 1980.
It is a landmark building set against limestone cliffs of Cantonment Hill, denoting the entry to Fremantle at the Fremantle Traffic Bridge intersection of Queen Victoria Street, and Canning and Stirling Highways.
There is a crest on the eastern end of the building with the text NON SIBI SED PATRIAE, meaning 'not for self, but for homeland'.
Naval Stores, 57 Canning Highway is part of the Artillery Barracks and Fremantle Harbour Signal Station (fmr), a HCWA Registered Place. It is a two storey masonry building with second floor timber framed windows and a rendered parapet hiding the roof line. There are two-storey height entrance doors at each end of the street elevation. The end roof line is a gable shaped parapet.
Refer to HCWA's Assessment Documentation of Places for Entry in the Register of Heritage Places for ARTILLERY BARRACKS & FREMANTLE HARBOUR SIGNAL STATION (FMR).
This site comprises: the Naval Store, the Tuckfield Street Open Space, the nine married officer's quarters (Queen Victoria Street), the married officer's quarters (cnr of Burt and Queen Victoria Streets), Gun House, Rifle Cottage, Fremantle Harbour Trust signal station, artillery officer's mess, officer's mess, storage, garage/storage, museum (master gunner's store), museum administration (quarter master's store), orderly room, guard room, lecture rooms, quarter master's store/gymnasium, university regiment/army museum barracks, gymnasium/store, and timber racks.
In the late 1990s it was a sprout factory, producing (among other things) alfalfa and mung bean sprouts for Woolworths and other retailers.
By 2024 it was an art gallery.
References and Links
- thenavalstore.com
- enkel collective
- Wikipedia entry for the motto.
- Delphine Jamet's page for the Fremantle Naval Store @ streetkidindustries.com.
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 15 August, 2020 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/navalstore.html (it was last updated on 24 September, 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.