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Prospect House
Cnr Adelaide and Point Streets, 1886-1967
Library:
Photo #2815, 12 August 1897. Prospect House was built in 1886 on the corner of Adelaide and Point Streets for Captain William Dockray Jackson (1827-1895). Captain Jackson was Port Pilot and Superintendant of Rottnest Island 1867-1885. The Jackson family lived here until 1897. Later it became a boarding house, home of a music teacher, a doctor's surgery, was converted into flats and was demolished in 1967. Taken 12 August 1897.
I can't remember ever seeing another private house in Fremantle where the veranda apparently extended out over the public footpath.
References and Links
Data from the FHS Newsletter October 1993, p. 3.
Captain William Jackson.
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). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.