Notre Dame University ND21 - St John of God Hall
21-23 Henry St (was 53-63 pre 1938) former Central Wool Company
Single storey painted brick and rendered building with zero setback from the pavement. Engaged ashlar effect pilasters flank the entrances, and a decorative parapet has a decorative pediment over the arched entrance on the right side of the building.
This building has been a warehouse and shops since 1880s.
2002 Notre Dame: The building was named after the sisters of St John of God because this Order, under the leadership of Sister Verna Haugh SSJG, had been a strong supporter, and Founder of UNDA.
To commence the project, Mr Horgan, using $5 million in short-term funds borrowed in November, 1987 by him personally from the Sisters of St John of God (Mr Horgan was a member of the Sisters’ Provincial Advisory Board), began acquiring properties in his own name in the West End of Fremantle with a view to on-selling (at cost) or leasing many of them to the University, as required, and as the University gained the necessary fiscal capacity… (reference below)
c. 1993- The Sisters of St John of God retained some of the mortgaged properties (ND6, 18 and 21) which the University could not afford to purchase at the time, and later transferred them, as foundation gifts, to UNDA.
2002 owned by Notre Dame University.
OCCUPANTS
Lot 64 owners:
1829 - 1837 Armstrong, Adam (Not the custom exciser)
1855 - 1859 Pace, A
1876 - 1878 Skinner, George
Lot 65 owners:
1829 - 1837 MacFaull, Eliz
1855 - 1878 Lefroy & Vigors
No. 21 (was 53 pre 1938)
1900 - 1902 Fremantle Lumpers Union (rooms)
1900 - 1904 Bolton & Sons, coach & carriage builders &c.
1900 - 1929 COLONIAL SUGAR REFINING CO. LIMITED
1900 - 1901 H. H. Symonds, manager, 1903 - 1929 J. T. Murray, manager
1933 - 1949 Parsons Bros & Co Pty Ltd, wholesale merchants (1933 - 1938 P H Willoughby, manager)
No. 23 (was 63 pre 1938)
1901 - 1903 BOURNE H. G. auctioneer & manufacturers' agent.; sole agent for Baynes' Graziers' Meats
1905 - 1908 BOLTON & SONS, coach & carriage builders &c. ; & at 45 William st, Perth
1913 - 1921 Pascoe, William H, sailmaker
1922 - 1938 Hood, Alex, sail & tent maker
1938 - 1949 Parsons Bros & Co Pty Ltd, merchants
Reference: the Founding and Establishment of Notre Dame, 1986-2014 by Peter Tannock 2014
