Spaces at Mattie Furphy House and Tom Collins House available for hire
The Fellowship acquired and restored Mattie Furphy House (above) with the help of a grant from Lotterywest.
Read about Mattie Furphy, for whom the house was built, in Dainty but Determined by historian Dorothy Ericson, published in Australiana magazine in 2015. Read more about Mattie Furphy here.
Mattie's house, built between 1908 and the late 1920s, is a stunning apotheosis of the style of the Arts and Crafts movement espoused by artist and craftsman William Morris in the late 1890s. Mattie's copperwork, which originally featured in most rooms, was installed in what is now Tom Collins House by Mattie and her husband Samuel in 1938.
The house was profiled by ABC News in 2014.
Mattie Furphy House
Features include:
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a large main room that opens onto the verandah
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a sunroom with round table
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a fully equipped kitchen with tea and coffee making facilities, large oven
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capacity for up to 50 people standing
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six trestle tables and 30 chairs
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parking at Allen Park Oval next door
More about Mattie Furphy House here
Cost to hire: $40 an hour for a minimum of one hour.
Tom Collins House
Features include:
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a large meeting room
More about Tom Collins House here
For general inquiries please email us at fellowshipaustralianwriterswa@gmail.com
For more information and to make a booking please click here.
The Writer's Studio at Tom Collins House
Do you need a space to write? The new Writer's Studio at Tom Collins House is now open.
Write, read, mark up your manuscript or daydream amid natural bushland a short walk from the train, the beach, and the Kirkwood Deli.
Cost $60 a day with a 30% discount for members. Email us for the code. For bookings please click here.
