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Prospect House was a two-storey residence on the corner of Adelaide and Point streets, built in 1886 and demolished in 1967. The location is 33 Adelaide Street.
It was built for Captain William Jackson. The Jackson family lived there until 1897. Later it became a boarding house, the home of a music teacher, a doctor's surgery, and was converted into flats.[1]
Note the unusual design of the veranda extending over the public footpath on Point Street.
From the Fremantle Society October 1993 newsletter:[2]
From 1886 until 1967 this fine house stood on the corner of Adelaide and Point Streets in Fremantle. Today Hair Cosmo and a Formalwear business occupy the same lot and offer no hint of what once was.
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Committee member and Fremantle Councillor Anne Rimes is a descendant of Captain Dockray Jackson (1827–1895), the original owner of "Prospect House". The photograph [at right] comes from her family collection.
Captain Jackson arrived in Western Australia c.1840. In 1853 he married for the second time. Catherine Cleary (b.1831) and Captain Jackson had six children including Mary Anne (from his first marriage), Catherine (1854–59), Annie Mary (b.1856), William Dockray (b.1858), Maud (b.1863) and Thomas (b.1865).
As a master mariner, Captain Jackson made numerous voyages to Tasmania and Singapore. He was a pilot at Rottnest from 1857 and appointed Superintendent of the Island from 1867-1885.
He owned a number of Fremantle properties in Adelaide Street, Beach Street and Queen Victoria Street. "Prospect House" was built for the Jacksons in 1886 and remained their family home until 1897 shortly after the Captain's death.
The property later became a boarding house, [TODO – Continue transcription.]
References and Links
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fremantle History Centre photo #2815.
- ↑ [Work not found: "Fremantle Society newsletter, October 1993"]
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 9 December, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/prospect.html (it was last updated on 3 April, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.