History
The land upon which St. Louis Estate sits has a history almost as long as European settlement of Western Australian. Originally surveyed by famed explorer Alexander Forrest in 1876, property developer James Morrison is the first recorded owner of the land that he subsequently named Claremont in honour of his wife.
The centerpiece of St. Louis Estate is the Hinemoa Homestead. Businessman George Henry Johnston built the Homestead in the late 1890s to his own design and named it Hinemoa (a Maori word meaning Hanging Rock). Johnston lived here with his family when he arrived in Western Australia to take up the post of Manager of the South British Insurance Company.
Henry Johnston later sold Hinemoa to Alexander Munro, Superintendent of Millers Timber and Trading Company. The Munro family lived here until the homestead was sold to the Roman Catholic Church in 1932 when it became the site for a school called St. Louis College.
St. Louis Estate, as it is now, was established in 1987 and the Hinemoa Homestead has since been lovingly restored to its former glory.