The Stallion Box Subiaco
These historic outbuildings at the rear of the historic Queen Anne Federation home Fairview of Subiaco were restored in 2019 using a heritage grant from the City of Subiaco and open to the public as part of Open House Perth.
They got their name because prominent lawyer John Peter William Durack, also known as Roaring Jack Durack or Black Jack Durack, an Australian lawyer, hid a horse there. He was part of the Durack dynasty of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He married Pleasance Rowe in 1922 aged 36. They lived at the historic Federation Queen Anne house "Strathmore" at 18 Chester Street Subiaco, built in 1905 for Walter David Cookes, founder of the Ezywalkin Boot and Shoe Company of Fremantle.
Durack was a keen horseman and President of the Hunt Club of Western Australia. He went hunting on Wednesdays through Kings Park and purchased a stallion called "Midnight" in September 1923. Too scared to tell his wife, he hid the stallion in the nearby outbuildings of the historic Queen Anne Federation home "Fairview", owned then by John Kennedy, who ran the Perth Ice Works.
The current owner is art collector and company director Thomas Murrell.
