10 High St (was 24 pre 1939)
1928 - 1949 was known as CRAIG'S Buildings
A three storey rendered building with basement below street level. The basement and ground floors are recessed behind a pilaster façade with stucco brackets and the parapet has a highly decorative stucco pediment. The main entrance door and casement windows are arched with timber mullions. The first floor windows have decorative stucco effects.
Designed by E. H. Dean Smith c. 1989, alongside the Tannat Building at No. 8. The building has two storeys and a cellar on a very narrow frontage. It was built for Francis ‘Frank’ Craig, (1852-1930) who made his money from the Goldfields and in 1898 was Chairman of WA Tattersall’s Club.
1901 James Liliy and Co. begs to intimate that he REMOVED to more Central and Commodious Offices in Craig's New Buildings, in High-street, where he intends carrying on his old-established business under the style of G.F. Gallop and Co. (reference)
1903 J de la B. WHITLOCK, ACCOUNTANT, and General Commission Agent, Craig's Buildings, 24 High St, Fremantle. (reference)
1903 I, ERNEST WILLIAM ROSMAN, business manager, now residing at High street, in the town of Fremaiitle, do hereby give notice that it is my intention to- apply at the next Licensing Meeting to be holden for this district for a Spirit Merchant's Licence in the rooms which I now occupy, situated at Craig's Buildings, High-street, Fremantle. W.E. ROSMAN., G. F. Boultbee, High-street Fremantle, Solicitor for the Applicant (reference)
1918 Miss Powers, costumiere, late of 24 High-street, who Is now In business in Greenbushes, wishes to thank her many customers for their kind patronage during her sojourn in Fremantle. (reference)
The place was known as the Cellars Restaurant in the 1980s.
In 2022 this building was renovated. It had been the last building in High St which still carried the yellow paint that had been applied to many buildings down High St to create the Arcs d'Ellipses installation, put up in October 2017 by Swiss artist Felice Varini as part of the High Tide Biennale.
OCCUPANTS
Lot 18 owners: 1829 - 1837 Lamb, William, 1855 - 1878 Brown, R M B, 1879 Moore, W D
1900 - 1902 Merchant's Assoc. of W.A. (registration office)
1900 - 1903 Barker & Boultbee, solicitors
Vincent, Mrs. M A, luncheon rooms
1900 - 1904 Gallop & Co. G.F. shipping agents
1903 - 1904 McHenry, Clark J, agent
1904 Adams & Co. G.H. wine & spirit merchants
1904 - 1910 BOULTBEE & CALDER (GEORGE Frederick Boultbee, public notary & commissioner for affidavits & Jas. B. Calder, LL.B.), barristers & solicitors
1911 - 1913 West Australian Shipping Association Limited (Frank Nicholas, J.P. sec)
1914 Imperial Naval Intelligence Off. Major Percy Molly, in chg
1915 China Traders Insurance Co. Ld. (Marine)
1915 - 1916 North British Insurance Co. (Fire), W. R. Clarke
1915 - 1916 Gippsland & Northern Co-op. Co. Ld. (1915; E. J. Muirhead, rep) (1916; W R Clarke, rep)
1915 - 1917 Clarke, W R, com & independent agent
1916 - 1918
Powers, Miss Olivia, costumiere
Miller, Mrs J W, music teacher
Miller, John W
1919 - 1921 Miller, Mrs J W, music teacher
1921 - 1924
Bland & Le Quesne, wool & product merchants
Jandakot Wool Screening Works
1925 - 1927
The West Australian Trustee Exec & Agency Coy Ltd
Boylan Thomas / Boylan Thomas
1928 - 1954 CRAIG'S CHAMBERS First Floor: Joyce & Watkins, import and export merchants
1930s Marine Bi-Products Ltd, manures.
1960s ‘Roo on the Roof’ restaurant in the basement
1980s Cellars Restaurant
1991 Osho University of Unlearning, Raj Neesh ‘Orange People’ under Ma Deva Anuprada
2002 -Workshop 3S Jewellery
2019 The cellar houses Space agency, Michael Patroni's architectural design firm.
