The Original town lots were surveyed by J.S. Roe in 1829.

Mouat Street, between Phillimore and High Streets.

The earliest owner of Lot 27 recorded by Hitchcock (1929) was Lionel Samson.

The building on Lot 27 since 1900 is the Howard Smith building, part of Notre Dame University.

References and Links

Streets of Freo page for the Howard Smith Building, including a list of occupants.

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


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 17 December, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/lots/27.html (it was last updated on 17 December, 2022), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.