10 Henry St

10 Henry St (was 22 pre 1938)

Lance Holt School, Federal Coffee Palace (fmr)

The original two storey building including half basement at ground level is constructed in the Federation Free Classical style. The building has zero setback from the pavement. The ashlar rendered façade features a tall decorative parapet with engaged pilasters and the central timber doors entrance with timber sash windows to the first floor. The ground floor and sub-basement floor façade features arched recessed timber framed windows.

1892 the Federal Coffee Palace, built for Philip Webster was first leased by Mr William Edward Jennings (who had arrived in the colony the previous Dec):

1892 Mr. A. E. Jennings has leased extensive premises in Fremantle, which he has opened as the Federal Coffee Palace. The central position of the building should make the establishment very convenient for working men, while special acommodation has been provided for visitors. (reference)

1892 Fremantle Board of Health- at the Federal Coffee Palace sleeping apartments had been fitted up below the street level. It appeared that the proprietor was unaware of the terms of the bye-laws, and had offered no objection to alter his arrangements… (reference)

By October 1892, when Jennings defaulted on the rent, Webster seized the premises, closed the short lived Coffee Palace (reference) and held an auction on the premises. (reference)

In Nov 1892 Martin Blau (and Mrs Meadley), bought the business and applied for an eating and boarding house licence to continue the Federal Coffee Palace (reference) After a health inspector complained of unsanitary conditions, water closets were installed in Dec 1892. (reference)

Jan 1893 In the Bankruptcy Court, the public examination of W. E. Jennings, restaurant-keeper in Fremantle, was brought to a close, there being no assets in the estate. The debtor added to his previous statement that when he openod a second business at the Federal Coffee Palace he was in debt about £70, and the new place cost him about £560, the furniture and fittings costing £520. The loss on that business during the three months he continued it was about £125. In October he assigned his assets to creditors, not being able to meet the bills due. His business was injured by the medical officer of the Board of Health condemning the Federal Coffee Palace as an unhealthy building, be-cause there were 20 beds in the cellar, besides the beds on the upper floors, and the report in the newspapers caused the boarders to dwindle away. (reference)

In March 1893 Martha Meadley (husband W. Meadley) was granted the boarding house licence. (reference) By June 1893 it was suspected the auction may have been rigged to fleece Webster: “they had Webster now, who was a fat goose worth plucking…” (reference)

In 1893 M. Davey, proprietor of the Federal Coffee Palace, wrote to the Fremantle Board of Health stating he could not afford the upkeep of the well in his yard and asked that better drainage be provided in Henry-street… (reference)

In 1896 Walter H. Raleigh and W. Rogers applied for a Hotel Licence and in 1897 Raleigh received a Billiard Table Licence, for the Federal Coffee Palace. (reference) (reference)

1896 Jeremiah Eunson, alias Scott, was charged with picking the pocket of one James Bourke, on the morning of the 16th instant, at the Federal Coffee Palace. John Barry, night watchman at the hotel, gave evidence to the effect that he noticed the accused go upstairs at about 3 o'clock in the morning, and enter a room occupied by four men. The accused then proceeded to ease one of the inmates of the room of his money… (reference)

1896 Walter Henry Riley and William Rogers, lessees of the Federal Coffee Palace Hotel, Henry-street, Fremantle, were charged before Mr. R. Fairbairn, R.M., in the Fremantle Police Court, yesterday, with having committed a breach of the Wine, Beer, and Spirits Sales Act by having retailed liquor to persons other than their bona-fide boarders or lodgers. (reference)

In June 1897 Mr. James Alexander Ramage, a resident of the Federal Coffee Palace and an inspector in the Fremantle branch of the water supply department, was killed when hit by a train. (reference)

1897 The Federal Coffee Palace had 76 beds in it, whereas according to the by-laws it had space for only 56… Where, as in the case of the Federal Coffee Palace, the bedrooms were open cubicles, with space above the partitions for an overhead current, the rooms might be improved sufficiently for their present number of beds by means of auger holes bored at the bottom of the walls close to the floor, so as to give an under-current… (reference)

In June 1898 Clara Walker, the manageress of the Federal Coffee Palace, and Lydia Fitzpatrick, housemaid, both gave evidence in the inquest of A. Dawson, a man who took an overdose of morphia, in his room… (reference)

Oct 1898 “I expected this." Campbell Macarthur, manager of the Federal Coffee Palace, said that there had been several robberies at the coffee palace while accused was staying there. (reference)

Nov 1898 stolen goods were found on the premises and this was last heard of the Federal Coffee Palace in Henry St ( reference)

In 1899 a two storey office and warehouse was constructed which housed a variety of merchants and tradesmen.

In 1973, Lance Holt school took out a lease, and in 1985 bought the building for $120, 000 from the council.

OCCUPANTS

Lot 78 owners:

1829 - 1837 Wardell, Richard

1855 Keates

1856 - 1876 Yelverton, H

1877 Senior & Brown, T & Senior, I

1878 Brown, T & Carter, Thomas

1879 Brown, T

1892-1898 Federal Coffee Palace

1892 owner Philip Webster, leased by William Edward Jennings,

1893 M. W. Davis, (M Davey?), licensee, and Martha Meadley

1896 Walter Henry Riley and William Rogers, lessees, John Barry, night watchman

1898-Campbell Macarthur, manager, Kitchen Mrs Kennedy, Clara Walker, manageress, Lydia Fitzpatrick, housemaid

1899 Moylan James, wine & spirit merchant & importer of general merchandise

1900 - 1915 A. G. & F T, KNOX merchants

1916 - 1920 Knox, F T, general merchants

1921 - 1927 Tucker & Thomson Ltd, plumbers & sheet metal workers

1928 - 1934 Hollis & Thomson, plumber, tinsmiths, canister makers & sheet metal workers

1934 - 1941 Thomson, Samuel, plumber

1942 - 1949 Johnson Ltd George, mfrs agents / Churcher & Co Ltd F W, forwarding agents

1950 -c1970 Adams Electric and Port Printing Works.

1972 purchased by Fremantle Council and occupied by Main Roads Dept. and the City of Fremantle Planning Dept.

1973- Lance Holt School

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Craig's Building

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.

newly renovated 2022

Hotel Fremantle

Hotel Fremantle, Corner High and Cliff Streets, Notre Dame University ND 42- Arts, Sciences and Business

Originally Lot 18 (corner Cliff and High sts) was owned by William Lamb (1829 - 1837), transferred to R M (Broun?) Brown (1855 - 1878), and transferred to William Dalgety Moore (1879-) A residence at the rear was built for Moore in 1885.

Hotel Fremantle was designed by Wilkinson and Smith and built in 1897/98 for Bacon Forrest Co. It opened on 1 October 1898. (reference)

1899 Conference with lumpers union representatives.  A meeting of merchants of Fremantle and Perth was held at the Hotel Fremantle, Cliff-street, to confer with representatives from the union as to the best means of releasing perishable goods from the vessels owned by companies affected by the strike. (reference)

1906 Hotel Fremantle- Most Conveniently Situated Hostelry in Fremantle to Railway Station and all Wharves… Mrs. E. C. Griffin, late of the Hotel Australia, having taken over the above splendidly appointed Hotel, has had the interior of the whole premises thoroughly renovated and redecorated, together with extensive replenishing arrangements. The bedrooms are commodious, lofty, and thoroughly ventilated. Excellent Cuisine. Tariff Moderate. (reference)

Hotel Fremantle also held an office/storage at 8 Cliff St from 1920-1938

2006 Shane Burke conducted two archaeological excavations during 2006 at the Fremantle Hotel site… The first excavation, done near the front bar… determined that the limestone foundation found after floorboard removal was the remains of the wall of the house that originally faced Cliff Street occupied by the lot’s previous owner William Dalgety Moore. Further research suggests that the wall’s construction occurred in 1885 when Moore extended his residence. The foundations remained preserved despite the demolition of a section of Moore’s house in 1898 and the subsequent erection of the Hotel Fremantle facade along the Cliff and High Street the same year. The excavation unearthed a surface layer containing objects associated with hotel use like corks, lead bottle seals, newspapers and beer and wine bottle glass. Under this surface layer, the soil darkened considerably, with very dark grey sand occurring. The dark grey sand contained a few artefacts like fragmented ceramics, black bottle glass and an 1887 English penny.

Burke, Shane 2007, 'Fremantle's hidden history', Fremantle Studies, 5: 63-73. (reference)

OccupantS

Lot owners 17 & 18: 1829 - 1837 (17)Leake, George (18)Lamb, William, 1855 - 1878 Brown, R M B, 1879 Moore, W D

1855 William Dalgety Moore.

1899 Proprietor Alfred Court (reference)

1901 - 1903 Proprietor H Chesterfield

1904 - 1906 Proprietor M J Murphy

1906 - 1920 Proprietor Mrs Elizabeth C. Griffen ( read full story in Notable People section).

1921 - 1924 Proprietor Alexander Cooper

1925 - 1930 Proprietor A D Lindberg, also working there: Mrs E Kenny (1927), Charles Doherty (1928-1929)

1931 - 1949 Proprietor George E Smith, Also working there: Mrs Alice M Payne (1930-1932), Roy Manuel (1935-1936), Thomas Lewis (1936-1939)

1946 Frank J Murphy (accountant)

During WW2 the hotel was set up as a hospital and operating theatre.

1987 Used as headquarters for the New Zealand Team, Americas Cup Defence

Now used by Notre Dame University ND 42- Arts, Sciences and Business