McDonald Smith Building

The McDonald Smith Building is a heritage building in the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia.[1] The building dates from the gold rush boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is of historic significance.

McDonald Smith Building
The façade of the McDonald Smith Building in March 2016.
General information
Architectural styleVictorian Classical Revival Style
Location32.0562°S 115.742734°E / -32.0562; 115.742734
Address20–32 Cliff Street, Fremantle
Current tenantsHon. Consul General of Portugal
Completed1895
HeightTwo storeys
TypeState Registered Place
Part ofWest End, Fremantle (25225)
Reference no.858

Prior to the construction of the current building, the property was the site of a cottage, c. 1860, constructed by Francis Henry Vincent (1797–1870) a former superintendent at Rottnest.[2][3] Significant remnants[4] of the limewashed and shingled house still exist at the rear of the main building.[5]

The building is a two-storey limestone and brick structure with a rendered facade with stucco ornamentation. It was designed by architect Herbert Nathaniel Davis[6] in the Victorian Classical Revival style,[7] and built in 1895.

Commercial enterprises have been the main occupiers of the building's ten apartments, such as Vincent, James Lilly, and Tompkins and Co.[6]

The building was classified by the National Trust of Australia in August 1983 and was also on the Register of the National Estate.[8]

See also

References
  1. McDonald Smith Building #858, State Heritage Office, 27 February 2016, retrieved 19 March 2016
  2. "Early Fremantle". Perth Gazette. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 19 September 1935. p. 9. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  3. "In The Supreme Court". The Herald (1867–1886). Fremantle, WA: National Library of Australia. 6 August 1870. p. 1 Supplement: Supplement to the 'Herald,'. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  4. "races of the past: list property". Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  5. "McDonald Smith Building". Traces of the Past:The National Trust Register of Built Heritage in Western Australia. University of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  6. "West End". Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  7. "McDonald Smith Building, 22-32 Cliff St, Fremantle, WA, Australia". Australian Heritage Database. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  8. "McDonald Smith Building". 00858. Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
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