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Introduction
Eric C Beedham (Eric Claude Beedham; September 4, 1895 - May 9,1947) is an Australian architect who contributed to Australian Architecture during the periods. He was known for his designs that developed Melbourne's factories at the time. This development in modernist architecture exploring new materials, technologies and ideals becoming available during the interwar period 1919- 1939. Beedham was born and raised in Hobart where he started his professional architectural career. In 1918, he was credited as “Honorary Architect” for his design of a church hall in Goulburn Street, Hobart. Beedham later moved to Sydney and worked for an architectural firm, ‘John & H G Kirkpatrick’ where he managed different projects outside of New South Wales. In 1930, Beedham focused more on larger scale commercial and industrial projects. He partnered with Melbourne based architect, John W Wright for four years before he started his own practice. Beedham predominantly designed commercial and industrial buildings during his professional architectural career in Hobart, Tasmania, Sydney, NSW and Melbourne. Beedham as been recognised at the time he was practicing to be one of Melbourne's youngest architect who had achieved the title of an honorary architect at the age of 23 years old. Architect who has set his mark on Toorak through the Toorak house project which was designed for a well-known businessman Louis C Moore and the project attracted much press attention both locally and interstate for its outstanding construction.

Early Life
Beedham was born in Hobart, Tasmania on 4th of September 1895, the youngest child (second son) of Frederick Wescott Beedham and Isabel Sara Kipling. Beedham was raised in Hobart and attended the Friends’ School (denominational Quaker School). He later attended the Queen’s College in Hobart, Tasmania which operated from 1893 to 1912. His elder brother, Lancelot Kipling Beedham had established an architectural practice in Hobart in 1912. Eric became an articled pupil for his elder brother and that was the beginning of his professional career. )

Professional Career
In 1916, Beedham completed his articles and joined the Hobart City Council as an Assistant Engineer & Architect.

In the late 1918, Beedham moved to Sydney and worked for John & H G Kirkpatrick, at the time the preferred architectural firm of the Commonwealth Government. Following this, he worked in the role of Managing Assistant for Australia in a series of projects undertaken outside New South Wales, working on such projects as Bank note Printing Office in Fitzroy 1923, the new Commonwealth Bank Buildings in Collins Street, Melbourne 1920-1924, Moorabool Street, Geelong (1925) and Queen Street, Brisbane (1927-28). He was involved in assisting a series of constructions under the Commonwealth Government and also the development of the Commonwealth's ambitious War Service Homes program to provide architect-designed dwellings for returned servicemen. Beedham initially worked on residential commissions. One of his famous and remarkable residential projects was built in Toorak, a large house designed in 1925 for prominent businessman Louis C Moore which attracted both locally and interstate as mentioned above. In early 1926, Mr. Eric C Beedham is considered as a young architect and native of Hobartian by Hobart Mercury News. His design featured for residential house design became the main focus for the Australian Home Beautiful of December 12, 1925. Eric began to move away from residential projects toward a larger scale commercial and industrial buildings in 1930. It was then that he partnered with architect John W Wright from 1934 -1937. During the four year partnership, both architects managed a series of commissions on various building types, including Clarendon Street factory - which were located in the booming industrial heartland of South Melbourne. The factories were designed in the fashionable streamlined Moderne Style, “with multi-paned strip windows alternating with continuous spandrels to provide a dominant horizontal emphasis”. Beedham again practiced on his own by mid- 1937. He continued his specialisation in factory design, Beedham’s  typical architectural practice during the later years of the second World War. He resumed designing factories in Melbourne’s inner industrial suburbs, as his last projects.

Death
Beedham died at the age of 51 in Melbourne, Australia on the evening of 9th May 1947. He had collapsed at St Kilda Railway Station and died on the way to the Alfred Hospital.

Notable Projects
Residential project in Melbourne, Toorak. "One large house in Toorak, designed in 1925 for prominent businesmann Louis C Moore, attracted much press attention both locally and interstate."



Factory designed together with his partner at the time, John W Wright. Jex Steel Wool factory, Burnley Street, Richmond (1938)

Awards
Recognised as one of Melbourne’s youngest architects in the twentieth century.

Projects by Eric C Beedham

 * 1918 St John Baptist Anglican Church, Sunday School, Goulborn Street, Hobart, Victoria, Australia


 * 1925 Residence for Louis C Moore (Byronya), Toorak Road, Toorak, Victoria, Australia


 * 1927 Residence for A B Sanders (Carn Brae, 429 Glenferrie Road, Malvern, Victoria, Australia


 * 1929 Residence for Arthur Stallwood, 8 Monaro Road, Malvern, Victoria, Australia


 * 1929 Factory for Schempp Textile Mills Pty Ltd, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia [with L W Vernon]


 * 1929 Alteration to shop front for W Owen, Armstrong Street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia [with L W Vernon]


 * 1929 Film Exchange for Universal Film Company, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1930 Factory for Flax Corporation (Aust) Ltd, Port Fairy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1930 Extensions to Bank House, Bank Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1937 Factory for Victorian Printing Works Pty Ltd, 21-29 Wills Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1937 Factory for Rola Company (Aust) Pty Ltd, Yarra Boulevard, Richmond, Victoria, Australia


 * 1937 Factory for Jex Pty Ltd, 77 Burnley Street (cnr Doonside Street), Richmond, Victoria, Australia


 * 1938 Service station, 311 North Road (cnr Bambra Road), Caulfield,


 * 1938 Factory, 177 Queensberry Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia


 * 1939 Warehouse for Joseph Lucas (Aust) Pty Ltd, 81-85 Bouverie Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia


 * 1941 Residential flats, Lalbert Crescent, Prahran, Victoria, Australia


 * 1942 Additional storey to factory, Clarendon Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1945 Factory for Farrow Falcon Press Pty Ltd, Chapel Street, Prahran, Victoria, Australia


 * 1946 Factory for Austral Battery Works, 19-25 Marine Parade, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Projects by Eric C Beedham & John W Wright (1934-37)

 * 1934 Block of flats, Mercer Road, Malvern, Victoria, Australia


 * 1934 Service station & workshop for Pioneer Tourist Coaches Ltd, Sturt Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1935 Factory for Sanderson & Cheney Pty Ltd, 4 Kavanagh Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1935 Residential flats, 15 Cowderoy Street (cnr Park Street), St Kilda, Victoria, Australia


 * 1936 Presbyterian Church Hall, Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia


 * 1937 Service station for Melford Motors, 112-118 Sturt Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


 * 1937 Factory for C W Vail, 9-15 Moray Street (cnr City Road), South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia