Between 1930 and 1933 Harold Krantz lived in a boarding house known as Forrest House, located on St George’s Terrace in Perth, close and conveniently placed for work. Harold designed the first Krantz family residence which was built in 1934 at 5 The Avenue, Nedlands. Scraping together the money to purchase the land in 1933, Harold designed this innovative house shortly after his marriage to Dorothy Powell.
Timeline of Krantz Residences
1934-1936 - 5 The Avenue, Nedlands.
1936-1934 - The Avenue, Nedlands.
1937-1941 - Bought ‘Darlington House’, 11 Montrose Avenue, Darlington.
1941-1942 - The family resided in a rented flat in Marine Parade, Cottesloe, during the summer months of 1941-1942 then spent six months in a hotel in Dumbleyung while bombing was feared during World War Two.
1942-1945 - Purchased 87 Bay View Terrace, Claremont.
1945 - Harold Krantz offered to swap a six-bedroom house for a valuable stamp collection owned by Major Robert Carl Dettman, Superintendent of the Swanbourne Rifle Range. Dorothy appreciated this move, having disliked the previous house.
1945-1958 - 22 Mount’s Bay Road, Crawley.
1958-1968 - Sunny Mead apartment, a two-storey penthouse unit at the top of ‘Sunny Mead’, 73 Mount Street (also 18 Bellevue Terrace), Perth.
1968-1999 - Illinois apartment #61, 1 Wingfield Avenue, Crawley.
