Mouat Street, Fremantle
street in Fremantle, Western Australia
Mouat Street is a 300-metre-long (980 ft) street in Fremantle, Western Australia. Historically, the name was often spelled as Mouatt Street.
It is a one-way street, running from Phillimore Street in the north to Marine Terrace in the south. It runs parallel to and in between Cliff Street to the west and Henry Street to the east.
Along the way it intersects High Street and Croke Street.
Mouat Street was named after lieutenant J. A. Mouat, of HMS Challenger.
New kerbing was laid along Mouat Street in 1890.
It is the location of a number of historical buildings: the Adelaide Steamship House, the Strelitz Buildings, the former Tarantella Night Club and the Howard Smith Building. There are also several buildings owned and used by the Fremantle campus of the University of Notre Dame, such as the former P&O Hotel building, as well as many other commercial buildings that use their heritage status.
Former buildings in the street include His Lordships Larder Hotel.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mouat Street, Fremantle” is street in Fremantle, Western Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mouat, Street and Fremantle, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “street in Fremantle, Western Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q15252423. Authority coordinates are -32.056, 115.744. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1890.
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