Architects - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1969

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

By: Toomath, Wilson, Irvine, Anderson Ltd

Reference: Plans-2005-057-0061AS

Description: Plans for Toomath & Wilson's own offices. Includes floor plans, office layouts. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 555 x 745 mm.

Date: 1938-1939, 1998

By: Dawson, Eric Vernon, 1914-1998

Reference: MS-Papers-6707

Description: The papers comprise statements made by Dawson in Jul and Nov 1998 in which he attempts to set the record straight about controversy over the design of Wellington Cathedral. He discusses the background to the cathedral building project, the various people involved and refers in particular to criticisms made by Roy Wilson of Warren and Mahoney. Also included is a correspondence file, mostly of letters between Christchurch architect, Cecil Wood, and Wellington Cathedral's Canon Malcolm, on various aspects of the proposed design (1938-1939). Source of title - Supplied Dawson, of King & Dawson, was appointed architect of Wellington Cathedral about 1959 following Robert Munro's death and continued until 1984 when he retired. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1946-2006

By: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-0850

Description: Records include committee papers (minutes, annual reports, correspondence, etc), 1959-2005; files of committee members, Deb Cranko and Christina Mackay; copies of Broadsheet - the Centre's newsletter; reports and submissions on developments within the Wellington region including the Wakefield Centre and Wellington Harbour Development; also includes minutes and submissions from the Save Our City Campaign; newspaper clippings and copied of various local government statutes; exhibition papers including those of Barbara Till re `Unbuilt Wellington' exhibition, 1989, `Women in Architecture' - the Suffrage Year exhibition, 1993, the Northern Gateway project, 2001, and World Architecture Week, 2002; papers re competitions, mainly `20 under 40' architectural competition; subject files including large file on State Insurance Building and Wellington Waterfront; financial papers, membership lists, newsletters and newspaper clippings The Architectural Centre was founded in 1946. It is a multi-disciplinary, independent voluntary organisation that includes architects, writers, artists, engineers, town planners and students with a common concern for architecture, the built environment and Wellington City. It established the Centre Gallery, Wellington's first dealer art gallery; published a magazine `Design review'; ran a summer design school; lobbied for the establishment of a Town Planning Section in the Wellington City Council and a School of Architecture at Victoria University. It has also organised exhibitions, symposiums, architectural tours, newspaper columns, seminars with visiting and local speakers and lobbied for a better built environment Quantity: 249 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 2.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts, printed matter, photographs, architectural drawings Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts, transfers made from here - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and negatives including Oriental Parade, Mount Victoria, Kaingaroa State Forest, Ridvan Subdivision (Ngaio), etc (Acc 77-046) - To Ephemera Collection - Programmes and pamphlets (Acc 2005-314) (B ARCHITECTURE 2004, C SCULPTURE 2004, A BATS 2004, A BUILDINGS Wgtn 2004, A VICT 2004, B BUILD SUPPLIES 1992, B BUILD SUPPLIES 1979, B BUILD SUPPLIES 1986, B ARCHITECTURE 1998); 1 folder of posters and fliers (a2008-148) - To Book Collections - 'Wesley Wellington Parish' [Wellington, ca 2000-2005] (Acc 2005-314) - To Photographic Archive - Digital photographs of Wellington and the Wairarapa (PADL-000545 to PADL-000560).

Date: 20 Mar 1977

By: Temple, Robert Philip, 1939-; Clark & Matheson (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-D-0729

Description: One of a series of photographs taken by Temple entitled `Images of Wellington'. Photograph of one of the many interesting facades on the Roger Walker designed apartments at 62 Moxham Avenue, Hataitai, showing the roof shapes and decorative outdoor lighting fixture. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - bottom right - Photographer's signature and date Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-mechanical print 440 x 295 mm on sheet 565 x 430 mm

Date: 1899

By: Chatfield, William Charles, 1852?-1930

Reference: PA-Group-00660

Description: Photographs taken by architect William Charles Chatfield of his Island Bay home called Hurston in 1899. Includes exterior views of house, house in its garden setting, and the garden, with studies of native trees in garden. Also interior views of rooms, furniture and individual paintings and portraits. Photographs of people, including child with teddy bear, formal potraits, man with a dog, people in open carriage, and family in garden. People on south coast beach, and vistas of coast with studies of rocks and sea. Some views of the interior of a church, showing pews, altar and decorations. Also wood carving, probably done by one of the women of the household - a popular craft activity in the late 19th and early 20th century. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Some negative boxes have ink or pencil inscriptions about contents (on lid, and/or on bottom). Vendor has also labelled some boxes House called Hurston is apparently at 1-2 Mersey St, Island Bay and is now used by the Little Sisters of the Poor Quantity: 177 b&w original negative(s) (Chiefly glass, six are film). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Negatives, photographic prints Provenance: Private purchase, 2009. The collection had been purchased by the vendor ca 1990. The previous owner's father-in-law had been interested in photography and had been given the collection.

Date: 1982

From: Seresin, Harry, 1919-1994 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8861-36

Description: Minutes, correspondence, sketch plans and other papers relevant to the redevelopment of the Willis Street site Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1950-2001

By: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.); Hallam-Eames, William, 1929-2011

Reference: PA-Group-00615

Description: Comprises: Photographs of Wellington buildings, streets and sites Photographs of Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History; and a house Photographs relating to the Northern Gateway Project of 1999. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Photographs collected by The Architectural Centre during 1958-1959, with the intention of producing a book with the cooperation of the English "Architectural Review". The project was subsequently abandoned. Quantity: 171 digital photograph(s). 5 container(s). 34 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Architectural Centre (Wellington); Records (MS-Group-0850).

Date: 1951-1982

From: Einhorn family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9337

Description: Loose specifications, calculations, correspondence permits and other papers relating to the construction and alteration of houses in Donald Street, and to other houses in the Wellington region. Folder includes annotation reading "Glenbervie Terrace" but does not seem to include any material on this location. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts Transfers: From Photographic Archive -.

Date: 1942-1989

By: Cashmere Community Centre (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-2425

Description: Collection comprises records of the Cashmere Community Centre and the Church Trust that raised the funds to build the Centre. Also includes specifications of building work designed by Plishke & Firth Architects, financial records, historical notes, printed brochures and design drawings. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 24 folder(s). 0.48 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, holograph, typescript, printed matter, including newspaper cuttings Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - One box of organisational records (DP-2015-071).

Date: 2014

Reference: Eph-B-FUNERAL-2014-01

Description: Order of a service conducted by celebrant Sally Latham, with organist David Trott. Includes two photographs of Bill Toomath and the family invitation to a screening at the Paramount Theatre, of the documentary film "Antonello and the architect", about the construction of Bill's Robieson Street study. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, light card folded to 297 x 105 mm. Provenance: Donated by Meg Bailey, Wellington, in 2014.

Date: 14 May 2002

From: The Leniston Family Oral History Project

By: Leniston, Martin John, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0607-02

Description: Johnny Leniston was born in 1925 and was brought up in Island Bay and Newtown. Describes breakfasts. Explains about the painting of The Moorings (31 Glenbervie Terrace). Talks about the family name Martin John Leniston, his Irish origins, visits to Ireland, his inheritance, the lease of the family farm, describes Uncle Gus, Aunt Martha and other relatives. Talks about a girl chosen for him to marry. Recalls meeting Betty, his future wife, at St Joseph's Orphanage, Upper Hutt when he and his sister Joan were there. Recalls Betty's brother Joe Healey, his polio, Scout membership. Gives reasons for his father joining the English Army to leave Ireland, relates he was an ANZAC and in the Battle for the Somme. Explains that father deserted at South Africa, travelled to New Zealand where the Buckley relatives already lived, went gumdigging and worked on the Main Trunk Line in 1908 where he met his brother Ted Leniston, explains. Gives examples of Ted Leniston's lack of fear, mentioning that he was a watersider, that he married Eileen, an orator in the Irish Club. Relates that his father and uncle joined the First Auckland Regiment, went to Gallipoli where father was wounded by shrapnel and talks of him working for Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), on the waterfront, walking roads in the Depression, messenger in Parliament. Gives examples of the freedom given him by his father, recalls travelling alone at age 10, being a witness at a bicycle accident and gives reasons for discouragement in joining the Irish Club. Explains differences in Irish cities. Mentions that his mother was South African, explains about prominent Bainbridges in history, the Royal Navy, mentions Order of Rising Sun. Talks of Grandfather Bainbridge in England, South Africa and New Zealand and decribes his various jobs. Recalls Grandmother was a piano teacher and explains why she chopped up her grand piano; names her siblings. Relates that his mother was born in Petermaritzberg, educated in England, returning as an adult to New Zealand where she worked at Gilbeys Business School. Gives her impression of Wellington houses and explains how she met his father. Relates that grandparents lived in Hay Street, Carlton Gore Road, Tinakori Road and that his sister married Milton Soler, and later Matt Guerin. Talks about living at Hansen Street and Devon Street, and renting property in less fortunate times; explains why he was never short of food in the Depression. Recalls having stones thrown at him, stick fights, gangs. States that his sister Joan was dux of Newtown School. Recalls attitude of Protestant and Catholic children; talks of Peter Wells and Ken Jessop, and a Jewish boy, Billy Green. Relates that he went into an orphanage at age 10, then family boarded with Allen family of Island Bay when mother was ill. Explains why he didn't become an architect, his enrollment at University of Wales, why architectural study in New Zealand wasn't feasible. Describes going mineral mining in Western Australia with his son and setting up a similar system of magnetic surveying in New Zealand on his return. Talks of his abilty to get consents, being 'muscled out' of his job. Talks of provisions made for his family in his absence. Details the experience in Perth, Australia which caused him to give up his catholicism. Mentions engagement and marriage, farming in the rehabilitation scheme at Mahonui, talks of the isolation. Lists his children, talks of his role and Betty's good family management. Talks of teaching in Hutt Valley schools, Teachers Training College in 1949. Details living in state housing, with parents, the influence of Guy Famularo's family to buy in Glenbervie Terrace, now in Family Trust. Explains about painting the house as condition of the loan, mentions State Advances, selling a rented house, the tenants, mortgage from Public Service Investment Society (PSIS). Explains situation when the government tried to appropriate part of Glenvbervie Terrace for the motorway, losing the track to town and the cash settlement. Talks of John Swan and neighbour Chris Cochran, architects, and a second John Swan who bought the rental house. Relates that he now lives in Paekakariki with daughters. Explains that the cash settlement repaid his sister and financed a trip as private member of trade mission to Chile. Refers to Allende and Pinochet, also contacts who disappeared. Describes crewing a yacht to Auckland from Wellington, being off course and surviving the experience. Refers to White Island, missing Ted Leniston's wedding and the reaction of his family. Recalls crewing on Barry Martin's trimaran to Rarotonga and describes experiences. Explains ringbolting (hitchhiking by sea). Talks of his family, mentioning the late Martin Leniston, his youth movement leadership, a proposed route between Wellington and Wairarapa, co-operation between landowners Riddiford and Bidwill, Automobile Association, Ministry of Works, Army, Wairarapa District Council. Refers to the Commissioner of Works. States that his greatest achievment is his marriage, talks of his family, Tim Leniston, and sister Joan. Sings a family ditty and refers to a spray of dried lavender saved by the family from the time he was lost at sea. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010955 - OHC-010957 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3857, OHDL-001231.

Date: 01 Dec 2006

From: Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project

By: Fantl, Robert, 1923-2016

Reference: OHInt-0830-06

Description: Interview with Robert Fantl, born Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1923. Discusses his parents' lives - mother Paula was Polish and father Robert died when he was 5 days old. Describes the political situation in Europe after the Munich Pact and its effects on their lives and education as they were Jewish. Mentions being sent to England in June 1939 on a train organised by Sir Nicholas Winton, and joining his mother and sister in New Zealand in 1940. Refers to the family moving to Wellington and his working for Fred Turnovsky. Mentions his role in the war, and joining the Air Force in 1943. Explains being posted to the Pacific and missing out on fighting the enemy he enlisted to fight. Mentions working for the Ministry of Works after the war so that he could study architecture extramurally. Describes life in New Zealand for a foreigner. Recalls his first visit to Otari-Wilton's Bush in 1941/1942, and buying a home in Wilton. Describes his developing interest in the area, outdoor life and learning about native plants. Mentions taking his family on picnics at Otari. Recalls dealing with Ray Mole, Anita Benbrook and Carol Leach when he planted trees in Otari to commemorate his wife Clare and daughter. Explains his involvement with planting trees as part of the Kaiwharawhara Valley revegetation project. Discusses his involvement campaining against roads and landfills that the Wellington City Council proposed in the early 1980s. Explains that the "northwest connector" road would have gone through Otari-Wilton's Bush. Mentions others in the campaign - Jock Fleming, Chris Horne, the Hendersons, Helen Ranforth, and free legal work from John O'Reagan and Hugh Rennie. Comments on there being more birds around Otari now and the effects of possum control on bird populations. Other Titles - Interview with Bob Fantl Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015372, OHC-015373 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5567. Search dates: 1923 - 1940 - 2006

Date: 8 Dec 1930 - 17 Sep 1935

By: King, Jack Ian, 1900-1972

Reference: MSX-9140

Description: Volume contains newspaper cuttings relating to architecture clipped from the Wellington newspapers `The Evening post' and `The Dominion'. Cuttings cover a broad spectrum of topics relating to architecture both in the Wellington region and the rest of New Zealand. Topics include earthquake risks, building safety and design, town planning, building subsidies, building bylaws, and building tender advertising by J M Dawson & King. Also includes three black and white photographs of unidentified building structures. Source of title - Transcribed from item King was a Wellington architect who worked in partnership with Joseph M Dawson in the firm King & Dawson, from 1929. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (26 cm) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr S Dawson, Mrs H Eats and Mrs D Cutfield, Wellington, Oct 2013

Date: 1950s-1962

By: Roy, Dudley Berryman, 1912-1985

Reference: PA12-5063

Description: Photographs of the Levin War Veterans' Home taken in the late 1950s and early 1960s, attributed to Dudley Berryman Roy. Three slides are date stamped "May 1962", other possible dates are provided by the donor. Collection shows several views relating to the Home's construction over various phases, including: - PA12-5063-01 and PA12-5063-02: Building flooring and framing, late 1950s. - PA12-5063-03: Annotated group portrait depicting Dudley Roy, Sonny Sciascia, H Kibblewhite and J Carkeek, standing in front of a sign that details their positions on the project. Taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly late 1950s. - PA12-5063-06: Street view of the site, duplicated in PA12-5063-07 and PA12-5063-08. - PA12-5063-09: Home entranceway, Dudley Roy's maroon Wolseley car can also be seen, no date. - PA12-5063-17: An interior view, 1962. Backfile available. The slide film is mounted in various Kodak cardboard mounts and appear to have been developed at different periods. Arrangement: Arrangement provided by donor. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency slides, 35mm. Provenance: Donor is the daughter of Dudley Berryman Roy.

Date: 1983

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to architecture, architects and architectural design in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-ARCHITECTURE-1983-01

Description: Exhibition booklet with introduction by Stuart Niven, Sandra Beath and Rob Ansell, and a catalogue of 69 items. Featured architects include John Craig, Kazumasa Yamashita, Frank Coleman, and many others. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1982

From: Wilson, Derek John, 1922-: Papers relating to his architectural practice

Reference: MS-Papers-9249-2

Description: The life and work of William Gray Young, including both his personal and professional chararcteristics, and a general overview of the work he produced, both by himself and in combination with the firm he established. A paper submitted in partial fulfilment of the Bbachelor of Architecture degree, Victoria University of Wellington. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typsecript (photocopy)

Date: [ca 1960-2009]

By: Beard, James Albert, 1924-2017

Reference: MS-Group-1803

Description: Papers relating to James Beard's careers as an architect and town planner. Most of the collectionThe papers concentrate on the activities, mainly involving Wellington. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 116 folder(s). 5 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter, sketches Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr J A Beard, 2009 Transfers: Extensive collection of architectural plans and photographs transferred to Drawings and Prints and the Photograph Archive respectively. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural plans ( - To Photographic Archive - Photographs (PA-Group-00749).

Date: 1920 - 1964 - 1929

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Natusch, Charles Tilleard, 1859-1951; Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-062-003/006

Description: Includes a plan (with part missing) by C Tilleard Natusch & Sons; also includes three plans by Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (floor plans, lighting plan, and details). Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print and pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 540 x 760 mm.

Date: 11 November 1982

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1982/3901-F

Description: Professor Helen Tippett, Dean of architecture at Victoria University of Wellington (right), and David reed, senior lecturer in urban design, with a model of the Victoria University campus in the university's urban simulation laboratory. Photograph taken 11 November 1982 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Caption - 'Dean of architecture, Professor Helen Tippett, and a senior lecturer in urban design, Mr David Reed, rearrange "the ugliest campus in the developed world" to their liking in the urban simulation laboratory' (Evening Post, 1 November 1982) Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1893-1953

By: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953

Reference: MS-Papers-3763

Description: The bulk of the papers are concerned with Daniell's business activities as an architect in Hamilton and Masterton. They contain correspondence, accounts and specifications relating to his architectural work. Daniell's diaries provide information on his activities during this period. The private papers relate to family and community affairs. They contain personal correspondence and documents together with material dealing with Daniell's involvement in the Methodist Church, no-licence and other community activities. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: The arrangement of the papers reflect the order in which they were received by the Library. There are a considerable number of general correspondence files which have overlapping dates. The letters within each file are arranged alphabetically. The reason why an item was filed under a particular letter of the alphabet is not always apparent and it can not be assumed that a letter will be found exactly where one might expect it to be. Quantity: 473 folder(s). 9.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Three albums of specimen buildings designed by F C Daniell (MS-Papers-3763-3/3/13-15).