Talk:Everglades, Leura

Attribution of the house (architect)
It seems very unlikely to me that the house at Everglades was really designed by Paul Sorensen, although I note that this is coming from 'reliable sources'. Sorensen is not known for designing buildings - just gardens - and that he designed a large house like this seems improbable. Perhaps he could have had a role in supervising work on it, but being the architect of it just seems unlikely. One source seems to attribute the house at Everglades to Sydney architect, leading amateur golfer, and golf course designer, Eric Langton Apperly. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/van-de-velde-henri-11908 This source says that Everglade's owner, Henri van der Velde, "asked Eric Langton Apperly to design a house", but it does not say definitively that Apperly did in fact design the house. Apperly's personal style of (commercial) building looks to be a little old fashioned to fit the Everglades house of 1938. However, his firm, Wright & Apperly, did design the strikingly modernistic (for its time) 'art deco' style office block "Feltex House" for the same Henri van der Velde, who was the owner of Everglades (see this https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-300933171/view?sectionId=nla.obj-313323829&partId=nla.obj-301240626#page/n25/mode/1up ), while Sorensen designed and built the rooftop garden for the same building. The firm also designed at least one other 'art deco' office commercial building in Sydney (see this http://artdecoheritage.blogspot.com/2009/09/pioneer-house.html). So, Apperly - or if not him, someone in his firm - seems a more probable architect than the landscape gardener, Paul Sorensen. Unfortunately, Apperly's architectural efforts are overshadowed by his many golf course designs, for which he is renowned, and it is hard to find anything about houses that he (or others in his firm, Wright & Apperly or Adam, Wright and Apperly) designed. --TrimmerinWiki (talk) 03:27, 6 September 2020 (UTC)