19-539: The Evan Davies Building , also known as the Literary Institute Building , is a heritage listed building located at 13 South Terrace, Fremantle , Australia, on the corner with Collie Street . It was one of many buildings constructed in Fremantle during the gold boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The building was completed in 1899, and was opened in 15 March 1899 as
38-480: A Dôme café on the ground floor. Later the same year the top floor was vacated and a refurbishment works of the building was undertaken. The Fremantle City Council ordered the works to address essential structural issues and other maintenance work. South Terrace, Fremantle South Terrace, Fremantle is a road in Fremantle , Western Australia that is renowned as the "Cappucino Strip" of Fremantle, due to
57-574: A title deed to all the land in 1884 and in 1887 the first record is seen of the stone-built hotel. The hotel was a successful business that survived George Davies' death in 1897. The hotel was put into a trust that was operated by his widow, Letty Davies, and brothers, George Davies and Arthur Elvin Davies. The building was internally redesigned around 1920 when the emphasis of the business changed from offering overnight accommodation to offering alcoholic drinks and hospitality. Shortly afterwards in 1922,
76-577: A vintner, local councillor and Mayor of Fremantle . For most of its life it was known as the Oddfellows Hotel ; it was renamed when it was substantially renovated in 1985. The Oddfellows Hotel was constructed by 1877 for George Alfred Davies , who was a well known wine and spirit dealer. Davies had been born in Fremantle in 1846 to a family who had settled in Western Australia only five years after Captain Fremantle first claimed
95-614: The Sail and Anchor (formerly the Freemasons Hotel ), the Newport, Norfolk , Davilak and South Beach hotels. [REDACTED] Australian roads portal Norfolk Hotel, Fremantle The Norfolk Hotel is located on the corner of South Terrace and Norfolk Street in Fremantle , Western Australia. The stone built hotel was originally constructed in 1887 before the 1893 Kalgoorlie gold rush for George Alfred Davies ,
114-598: The archivolt . In 1935 the Institute had 481 members and by 1939 there were 385 members using the facilities, which included the 13,000 books stored in the library section. The Institute remained in the building until 1949, when the City of Fremantle acquired the building and used it to house the Fremantle City Council Library. Renovations were carried out between April and September 1949 before
133-569: The Grand Hotel Townsville . In 2001 Gosatti renovated the basement of the hotel, converting it into a music venue; since early 2002 it has been used as an original music venue called "The Basement" and is now known as "Odd Fellows Bar". During the 2013 Fremantle Street Arts Festival the Norfolk Hotel was decorated with a wall sculpture of the first female Australian senator. The image of Dame Dorothy Tangney , DBE ,
152-622: The Literary Institute. The architects for the work were Messrs. Wilkinson, Smith, and Wilson, with the main contractor being L. Burness. The building was completed at a cost of £1,528. The two storey building is constructed from brick, render and iron in the Federation Academic Classical style of architecture. The Literary Institute in Fremantle, thought to be the oldest in Western Australia,
171-552: The Mayor of Fremantle, Elias Solomon ; at this time the ground floor housed two shops, a public entrance leading to the main hall and an ante-room on the ground floor. The first floor held the rooms of the Literary Institute. The main hall is recessed from the street with a portico in front. The hall was 40 ft (12 m) by 40 ft (12 m) with a raised platform at the rear that was 13.5 ft (4 m) deep. The walls were decorated with dado and stencilling. The entrance to
190-404: The area for Britain. After working for a number of years with his father, Albert, he established Grosvenor Cellars , selling alcoholic beverages and making his own wine. Davies was also active in public life, serving, in time, as a local councillor and in 1895 as the Mayor of Fremantle. The land where the hotel stands was where Davies was renting out cottages in 1880. Davies applied and received
209-704: The building was reopened as a public library in September by James Battye . The building was renamed the Evan Davies Civic Library, in honour of a local MP, Evan Davies , and has been known as the Evan Davies Building since then. The first floor was for a considerable time the location of the Fremantle Harbour Theatre. In 2015 the building housed a bar on the 272 m (2,928 sq ft) first floor and
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#1732772192351228-485: The high number of coffee shops and restaurants. South Terrace extends from Market Street southwards, parallel to the coast, for 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) to Ocean Road. It is also the location of the Fremantle Technical College , Fremantle Markets , and Fremantle Hospital , along with a significant number of heritage buildings. A number of historic hotels are on South Terrace, including
247-403: The hotel in 1952 to the first of a long line of private owners and another picture shows the beer garden packed with revellers on Derby Day on 26 December 1953. The Oddfellows Hotel was subject to major alterations just two years before its centenary, in preparation for the 1987 America's Cup Defence. In 1985 $ 500,000 was invested in renovating the building. A considerable part of the hotel
266-518: The library was on the side up the hall leading to a small passage to the jarrah stairway with turned balusters . On the first floor was the library, librarian's quarters, smoking and chess room, public reading room and a committee room. There was also a balcony surrounding the front of the building. The front elevation has ionic columns as the chief feature on the balcony, which holds a pediment with decorated tympanum . The windows have circular-heads and are divided with doric pilasters with supporting
285-526: The local brewery of Castlemaine Brewery purchased the building from the trustees. Within five years, the Oddfellows Hotel was being operated by the Swan Brewery as they "merged" with Castlemaine. The Swan brewery operated the hotel for over fifty years and a photo from the 1950s shows the building supporting tram lines on the corner of South Terrace and Norfolk Street. The brewery sold
304-759: The owners of the nearby Sail and Anchor Hotel . In 1987 Brewtech changed its name to the Matilda Bay Brewing Company , and in 1990 Matilda Bay was purchased by the Foster's Group . In 1989 the hotel lease was purchased by Garry Gosatti, one of the original partners behind the Matilda Bay Brewing Company. In 1992 the building was purchased by the Prendiville Group, whose portfolio includes Sandalford Winery , Karratha International Hotel, Cottesloe Beach Hotel and
323-465: Was carved by the Portuguese artist Vhils (aka Alexander Farko) and his assistants. Vhils is known for digging into the surface to create his sculptures. The building is listed on the City of Fremantle 's municipal heritage list in September 2000. The basis for the listing is the building's association with George Davies and because this is an unusual stone built structure that dates from before
342-418: Was demolished and a small courtyard was created. The building still has two floors, a galvanised steel roof with a central feature chimney and a basement with its entrance from Norfolk Street. A retained feature are the wooden doors on the first floor through which loads could be hoisted. The building was sold for a reported one million Australian dollars to a micro brewery business, Brewtech Pty Ltd, who were
361-547: Was established in 1868 from an amalgamation between two private institutions, the Working Man's Association and the Mechanics Institute . It was housed at a number of locations around Fremantle until the gold boom, when many new buildings were constructed around the town. The architects, Wilkinson, Smith, and Wilson, drew up the plan as part of a competition to design the new building. It was opened in 1899 by
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