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John Curtin's House

John Curtin's House is at present not open to the public

To find out more about the Curtin family home visit the website of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library and explore the resource 'Visiting John Curtin at home: 24 Jarrad St Cottesloe' at http://john.curtin.edu.au/curtinhouse/

This interpretation of Curtin's house owes much to recorded family memory and to earlier heritage assessments, but there is also an element of imagination. Houses and their furnishings can suggest a great deal about the people who inhabit them. John Curtin's house, which was constructed in 1923 reflected not only his own financial circumstances and his and his wife's domestic taste, but also shows us something about the relatively tranquil pace of life in his adopted city, Perth, and the ideas people had about domestic and personal space.