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=Things to work on=

Warwick house (nelson)

http://www.architecture-archive.auckland.ac.nz/docs/block-digital/2012-specol-auckland-block-map2.1-overprint.pdf


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Adsob/sandbox/Domain_Wintergardens


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Wilson_%28architect%29

=Benjamin Charles Chilwell=

Chilwell, Benjamin Charles - Architect


 * Biographical info from from

Born in England (d.1950), Chilwell came to New Zealand about 1907 and practised architecture in Auckland for nearly 40 years, undertaking a wide variety of domestic, commercial and industrial buildings. In 1914 he entered into partnership with Cecil Trevithick (d.1967), an Auckland architect. Their buildings include Myer's Kindergarten (1916), the 1924 additions to St Andrew's Anglican Church, Epsom (1867), Edean's Building (1914), Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd Building (1916), Rutland Building (1929) and the Arthur Eady Building, Queen Street (1939).


 * (1916) Myer's Kindergarten
 * (1924) additions to St Andrew's Anglican Church, Epsom (built 1867)
 * (1914) Edean's Building
 * (1916) Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd Building (constructed 1925?)
 * (1929) Rutland Building
 * (1939) Arthur Eady Building, Queen Street


 * (???) The Internal Marketing Division building, corner of Nelson and Fanshawe Streets
 * (???) House of Dr L. A. Spedding, on the corner of Remuera Road and St Mark's Road
 * (1914-ish) Grand Theatre (later Oxford Theatre, later Pink Panther club, now where Dick Smiths in Britomart is) Queen Street
 * (???) house built for Mr & Mrs Harold O. Wiles at the Western end of Hobson Point, Orakei
 * (???) a house in Victoria Avenue, Remuera
 * (1936) Home of Mr. & Mrs K.B. Myers, 268 West Tamaki Rd, Glendowie
 * (???) Jolly Farmer [tavern], Drury
 * (1946) Maritime Buidling, 130 Quay St

http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff-inoz/sets/72157625833509664/detail/

Auckland historic architecture

=Cecil Trevithick= (b.April 28, 1880 in Auckland, d. 1967 in Auckland) Father (James Garland Trevithick) was a naval architect and civil engineer. Mother (Annie Louisa Trevithick) also came to NZ. They came from England and arrived in New Zealand in 1879.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/damaged-war-art http://warart.archives.govt.nz/CecilTrevithick http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/cenotaph/74225.detail http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22013279 http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/dugouts-vlamentinghe-belgium-cecil-trevithick
 * War Art

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/name-438199.html http://www.geni.com/people/Cecil-Trevithick/6000000015117558807

book "Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of..." edited by Marta Gutman, Ning De Coninck-Smith has chapter about "Myers Experiment"

=Gummer and Ford= from http://www.architecture-archive.auckland.ac.nz/docs/block-digital/2007-09BlockDigital-GummerFordGuide.pdf

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g24/gummer-william-henry http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4f19/ford-charles-reginald

Wilson left Gummer and ford in 1936 Info about dissolution of Prouse and Gummer: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5w36/wilson-francis-gordon

Edmund Hillary's former residence at 278A Remuera Rd (designed 1956) Herald Article

Ford
Had his house at 4 Garden Road remuera in Arts and Crafts style

Gummer
http://www.lostproperty.org.nz/architects/william-gummer/ (check out stonefields as NZHPT listing)


 * Gained third place in bid to design NZ parliament while still in England in 1911
 * Married Edith Oiroa Batley in November 1923.


 * served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade in Egypt during the First World War, and in the Second served with the Corps of New Zealand Engineers Camouflage Section at home while continuing his architectural practice.


 * died at Papatoetoe on 13 December 1966

Domestic Works

 * Champtaloup House, Mount Eden (1914)
 * Tauroa, Havelock North (1916)
 * Craggy Range, Havelock North (1918)
 * Stoneways, Epsom (1927)
 * Te Mata, Havelock North (1935)

New Zealand Insurance Building, Auckland (1914) State Fire Insurance Building, Wellington (1915)

Guardian Trust Bldg (1914) 101-107 Queen St., City

Dunedin cenotaph (1921)

Grey Lynn Library (1923) 474 Gt. North Rd, Grey Lynn

Gummer and Ford
Gummer concentrated on design while Ford managed the practice and dealt with clients, although he also designed.

1924 - proposed Civic Square for Auckland. Auckland Civic Centre. won competition but voted down due to lack of public support.

1916–28 Auckland Winter Gardens Domain Drive, Grafton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Remembrance (1923-1924) (made by Prouse and Gummer)

1925 Remuera Public Library 429 Remuera Road, Remuera NZHPT listing


 * In 1915, a branch library was established for Remuera Brick shops 1929 at 411-413 Remuera Road. There is an attractive leaded frieze above the windows. These two-storey shops replaced the wooden building constructed in 1902 as the Remuera Road Board office, which later became the first Remuera Public Library after the demise of the Board in 1915. "Remuera has had more than one public library. The first opened in 1915 in the office of the former Remuera Road Board, which had overseen the area until it became part of Auckland City that year. In 1926 parts of this building would reassembled in Point Chevalier as a one-storey library for that growing suburb."librarylatitude.blogspot.co.nz


 * In the mid twentieth century, the lecture hall section of hte library was integrated with the rest of the building. Extra room was needed for books and the Auckland Library system had ceased giving public lectures (largely due to the advent of public cinemas and so forth). "During the 2002 upgrade the hall’s massive doors, kept closed throughout my childhood, made an entrance once more, with a new ramp now offering the best access to the library for those with limited mobility. There’s a disability carpark alongside in St Vincent Ave.Other work in 2002 saw additions of the late 1950s and early 1960s stripped away, outstanding original features reinstated and reinforced; for instance, plywood that covered some oak panelling was removed. Sections of wall came out to enhance the open plan, and cramped staff workspace was ingeniously expanded by converting the hall’s former stage into a glassed-in mezzanine. "librarylatitude.blogspot.co.nz


 * Remuera Community Library 1926, was opened on its present site on 31 July 1926. Designed by architects Gummer & Ford this Neo-Georgian build- ing was an innovative open plan design allowing flexibility, spaciousness and light throughout the building. It won a prestigious New Zealand Institute of Architects gold medal in 1928


 * Opened on 31 July 1926, Remuera Library is one of the few heritage buildings in the Remuera town centre. An icon much loved and well used by the local community by day – it can now be fully appreciated after dark, with wash lighting subtly showcasing this historic building.  Designed by architects Gummer & Ford, Remuera Library is an elegant Neo-Georgian building with an innovative open plan design inside.  It won a prestigious New Zealand Institute of Architects gold medal in 1928, and following a major heritage refurbishment in 2002, won a New Zealand Institute of Architects Award in the Heritage and Conservation category.  It is still considered a beautiful building more than 80 years after opening – and a heritage treasure for the Remuera community. The Remuera Business Association would like to thank the Orakei Local Board for their assistance with this project.  The Orakei Local Board funded the lighting of the Remuera Library as part of its plan to showcase key historic buildings within the Orakei ward.  The result is stunning, and well worth a visit to Remuera after dark.

In 2006 there was considerable discussion about repositioning the sundial outside the library, due ot it being wrongly calibrated.NZ HEARALD SIDESWIPE

1925 Dilworth Trust Building Cnr Queen & Customs Sts, City

1924-58 Jubilee Institute for the Blind George Street, Newmarket

1927 Auckland Railway Station 132-148 Beach Road, City

1928–30 Dingwall Orphanage 8 Dingwall Place, Papatoetoe

Elliot Memorial Gates (1935) Park Road, Grafton

(George Elliot, major sponsor of Wintergarden. Commissioned as a bequest by his brother William)

1931–43 St. Peters School Reeves Road, Mount Eden

1934–35 Dingwall Trust Building 87–93 Queen Street, City

1935 Good Shepherd Home for Girls Cnr. Dominion & Hillsborough Roads, Waikowhai

1952 Auckland Grammar School Old Boy’s War Memorial Mountain Road, Epsom

1952–53 Cornwall Park Steps Olive Grove, Greenlane

1953 Mangere Memorial Hall 23 Domain Road, Mangere

1955–57 St Mary’s Catholic Church 20 Kitenui Ave, Mt Albert

1961 Liston House 30-32 Hobson Street, City

ANZ Bank (1962) 149 Upper Symonds St., Cit

(they made several other branches of ASB ((incl. Wakefield Street, Newmarket, Panmure, and Papakura) but this only one not drastically altered or demolished

Both Gummer and Ford retired in 1961

Design Philosophy of Gummer and Ford

Mayors of Onehunga
It was proclaimed a borough in 1877, Mr. D. Jackson (1877 - ). Messrs Waller George Codlin (mayor 1879-1880, 1881-1883) Dr. Scott Dr. Erson (1887 - ) C. C. Fleming Michael Yates (1888-1892) Mrs Yates Mr. Donald Alexander Sutherland, was Mayor before from 1895 to 1897

Blakey, Thomas G   mayor 1878, 1880-1881 Boyd, John James   mayor, 1917 Cowell, James      mayor 1923-7 when electricity was installed in Onehunga Coldicutt, WC      mayor 1927-9

Beeson, TVG (1968-1974)