House, 5 Marion Street

Statement of Significance

• This place has aesthetic value as a predominantly intact example of the Inter War style.
• The place has historic value for its association with the development in the Inter War period.
• This place has social value as the house demonstrates the form and scale of housing for working families in the inter war period.

Physical Description

A single storey timber framed and weatherboard cottage with corrugated iron hipped and gable roof. A central gabled verandah extends over the main entrance supported on paired timber posts. The windows to the front elevation are timber framed casements with leaded lights.
A densely planted front garden obscures much of the street view of the property.

History

Eden Hill was approved as a suburb in 1954. The name 'Eden Estate' had been used in the area since the late 1890s when developer and future Premier of Western Australia, Frank Wilson, subdivided land for residential use. The name was believed to come from a farm that once existed in the area. Marion Street was a relatively remote part of the district in the 1920s when the Carter family first started living there. From the available information members of the Carter family occupied residences in the street from 1926 although it may have been earlier. Alfred Walter Carter (1872-1952), a labourer, married Ada Selina Ruck in 1899 in their home country of England before moving to Australia c1912 and serving
with the AIF during World War One. The couple lived at 5 Marion Street until their deaths, Ada in 1948 and Alfred in 1952. Their son Charles Albert Carter (1901-1988) lived next door at 7 Marion Street. From the aerial photographs of the site the residence has changed minimally from the mid-20th century although many structures have been constructed in the rear of the property and additions have been made to the rear and sides of the original residence.

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