Architecture, Domestic - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1981

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

By: Launder Comeskey Architects and Associates

Reference: Plans-2009-082-2241-001/030

Description: Includes framing plans, floor plans, roof plan, sections, steelwork details in maisonettes, exterior details, elevations, foundations and level slab plans, blockwall elevations and details, structural steelwork, mechanical and plumbing services. Quantity: 30 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 597 x 845 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1984 - 1986

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-2240-001/040

Description: Includes multiple preliminary ideas for a floor plan, site plan, floor plans, cross-sections, elevations, site and services plan, foundation plan, details and electrical plans. Quantity: 40 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tissue paper and draughting paper, sizes varying from 297 x 420 mm to 420 x 595 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1957 - 1958

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

By: Wilson, Derek John, 1922-2016

Reference: Plans-2005-057-1958

Description: Includes plans for a house at Section 31, designed by architect Derek Wilson. Also includes plans for a house for Mr & Mrs H A L Laing, designed by an architects' co-operative (T H Daniell, E N Inkster, T D McArthur, M H Wevers, and D J Wilson). Includes floor plans and elevations and construction details. Includes plans for a single storey wooden house with louvres in a dormer in the roof. No job number for these plans. Reference number reflects date of completion rather than job number. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, and pencil drawings on tracing paper, 560 x 760 mm.

Date: 1982 - 1983

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-2228-002/013

Description: Includes a survey plan, existing and proposed floor plans, elevations, details of kitchen work, and a laundry addition. House was originally designed by H T Barnes in the early 1920s [?] Quantity: 12 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1954 - 1969

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-073/082

Description: Includes elevations of fittings and storage units, full-size details of boards and battens, wall details, steel details, and foundation details. Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on draughting paper and tissue paper, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1955

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

By: Wilson, Derek John, 1922-2016; Arnold, Leo Keith, 1923-1984

Reference: Plans-2005-057-1955

Description: Includes floor plan, sections, elevations and details. No job number for these plans. Reference number reflects date of completion rather than job number. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 460 x 740 mm.

Date: 1909

From: McNamara, G :Portraits of Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp and James and Vera Bell's house

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0674-3

Description: Exterior view of house designed and built in 1909 by Wellington arts and crafts architect, Walter Chapman-Taylor for James and Vera Bell. The house is constructed of wood, has many-paned casement windows, rough cast capped chimneys, and a marsailles tiled roof. Corrugated iron water tanks can be seen ranged against a tiled shed. The house is newly completed, and the garden is in the first stages of being developed. Photographed by Sarony Studio, Wellington in 1909. The interior doors of this house are braced by planks which have adzed-shaped sections cut into them. This was a trade mark of Walter Chapmen-Taylor. This photograph originally belonged to Andrew Bell, the son of Katherine Mansfield's sister Vera Bell (nee Beauchamp). This house burnt down in 1911 (info - Judy Siers). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 15.4 cm, on cardboard mount

Date: [late 1960s]

From: Casey, John fl 1980s-1990s :Negatives of Thorndon

By: McKenzie, Donald Wallace, 1906-2000

Reference: 120-0807-F

Description: House at 52 Hobson Street, Thorndon, Wellington. Photographs taken in the late 1960s by Professor Donald Wallace McKenzie. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (120 strip with 2 frames). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative Finding Aids: Contact print at PAColl-7125-49.

Date: ca 1970s

By: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988

Reference: PAColl-4357

Description: Photographs of two two-storey houses (in use as offices) with elaborate fretwork on balconies and verandahs (exact location unknown). Close-up photograph of the fretwork detail on another verandah. A view down a row of houses with wooden balconies and verandahs and corrugated iron on the side of the nearest house. A sign for a bottle and flagon store is visible. Photographs of Newtown Community Centre on the corner of Colombo Street and Rintoul Street with signs for a legal advice centre and citizens advice bureau and Johsonville Community Centre with signs for Civil Defence Sector Headquarters, Johnsonville Pentecostal Fellowship and Johnsonville Advice Bureau. Photographer was Charles Fearnley. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Dewar, (Mr), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1518-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a single-storeyed wooden house at the end of a drive on the left. Tiled roof, decorative trim along the verandah and in the gables. Steps up to a corner porch; lawns with flower beds and shrubs, and with established trees on the far left. Trees also on the far right beside a gate by the road. Climbing roses over an arch leading onto the lawn on the right. Three women wearing hats, with a picnic table for tea on the lawn near the house. Car parked by the house on the right (Number plate WN-3321). Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Dewar [?] Lr Hutt 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 116.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Mitchell, (Mr), active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-1516-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at an angled view of a large two-storeyed wooden house in the centre of the image. Concrete pillars along the verandahs on two sides. Three-sided bay set in a gable above the verandah, balconies on either side of the bay. Entrance from the left, deep sash windows around the verandahs downstairs. An unidentified man and woman are standing on the verandah. Manicured lawns, dog near the steps up to the house, drive up from the left, and gravel paths Dry-stone walls and steps up into an area of bush behind with a sloping paddock on the hill above on the far right. Lower Hutt township just visible between trees below on the far left. Plants in the garden include tree ferns. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mitchell. Lower Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 123.7 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Climie, James Daniel, 1849-1928

Reference: Pan-1523-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden house on a rise on the right. Verandah along the front with an enclosed balustrade. Sloping lawn down to a driveway which winds up from centre foreground around to the back of the house. An open touring car is parked on the drive below the house (Number plate: WN-5986). Another open car (Number plate: HBC-74), is parked beside the house on the far right with two people seated in it and a man wearing hat and knee-length coat is standing behind. Trimmed hedge bordering the drive on the left. Established trees to the left of the house. The base of a flagpole is visible on the far right. Cleared hills in the background on the right. Houses in Lower Hutt valley below on the left. More hills across the valley on the far side. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Climie. Lower Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 104.0 cm

Date: [ca 1910], 11 May 1973

By: Hancock, David, active 2015

Reference: PA-Group-01009

Description: Collection comprises two sets of negatives: One set of 17 images relates to Nicholas Reid and his family. Taken at Maoribank, Upper Hutt, circa 1910 by unidentified photographer(s). Images chiefly show the Reid family home, land Nicholas Reid and family members in the garden. Also includes outdoors scenes showing: the Hutt River, two men and a dog rowing on the Hutt River, men stacking hay on a cart, family members sitting in a horse and trap, a ramschackle hut [whare?] at Maoribank [possibly the Haukaretu Maori settlement], and a line of World War One cavalry cantering along a country road. One set of 36 images shows New Zealand writer Barry Crump and his family at their residence at Waihi. Taken by David Hancock on 11 May 1973. Includes images of a house exterior, Crump chopping wood, and a group in a living room that comprises Crump, a woman [possibly his third wife Vanda Hill], two children, and an unidentified man. The film negatives taken circa 1910 are unusual because film was not widely used in New Zealand at that time. List of names for Reid family members written by donor stored in Photographic Archive back file. Bibliography - the images related to the Reid family have been published online on the 'Classorama' website at Title supplied by Library. Source of descriptive information - the donor. His enclosure for the 35mm negatives was labelled '474 Crump at Waihi 11/5/73'. See Upper Hutt City Library reference 178 'CD of photos of Reid family at Maoribank, early 1900s'. Arrangement: Negatives are held at 35mm-101293 to 35mm-101298 (Crump), and at 1/2-237286 to 1/2-237303 (Reid). David Hanock is the great grandson of businessman Nicholas Reid who had a house at Maoribank, Upper Hutt which he used for weekends in the early 1900s. David Hanock is a photographer, and took photographs of Barry Crump and his family in 1973. David's mother was the grand-daughter of Nicholas Reid. She, later, with her husband, purchased the Reid's house in the early 1950s, and the donor lived there as a child. Exact connection with Crump is unknown. Quantity: 17 b&w original negative(s) (Film of 1/2 plate size). 6 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strips, with 36 images. Physical Description: Half-plate film photonegatives and 35mm film negative strips

Date: 1972

From: Siers, Judy, 1937- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10461

Description: Four proof sheets containing images taken of the newly constructed house at 3 Gurkha Crescent, Khandallah, Wellington, designed by Roger Walker for house owners Earl and Helen Hingston. Taken in 1972 by Judy Siers. Shows earth mounds and new homes on surrounding suburban building sites, and exterior views (and one interior view) of the newly completed Walker house before garden landscaping. Sheets have annotations (frame number and descriptive information) on the reverse. A short essay by Judy Siers concerning the Hingston house is housed in the Photographic Archive backfile. Arrangement: The proof sheets have matching 35mm negative strips in this collection. Judy Siers commissioned work from Earl Hingston for her publishing business Millwood Press, and often visited the Hingston home at 3 Gurkha Crescent. The house was part of a residential subdivision built on a hill area in Khandallah, Wellington, known in the 1840s as Mount Misery or Sentry-box Hill (later as Boxhill) as it was the site of a sentry post. The section was purchased in 1970 by the Hingstons. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) (proof sheets containing 17 images). Physical Description: Four 35mm size proof sheets containing 17 black and white photographs with annotations on reverse

Date: 1960

By: Wallace, Julia Nannie, 1907-1991

Reference: PAColl-10261

Description: Photographic prints of the house 'Minnehaha' and its grounds, 49 Johnsonville Rd, Khandallah, Wellington, taken in 1960 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Gaylene Ashton, Helensville, 2014. Donor's great aunt Moana lived with Julia Wallace. Wallace's childhood home was 'Minnehaha'.

Date: 1931

By: Palliser, E (Mrs), active 1959; Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-862

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City, taken 1923 by R P Moore from the Wireless Station, located on Tinakori Hill, Wellington. See also PA6-859 and PA6-005. Title taken from item. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Panorama of Wellington, N.Z. from Wireless Stn 1923 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, 23.7 x 100.2 cm.

Date: 1970s-1980s

From: Major, Eve, active 1930s-1970s, and Major, Joseph, active 1930s-1970s: Photographs of Wellington theatre and travel

Reference: PA12-5135

Description: Transparencies taken by an unknown photographer, circa 1970s to 1980s, showing views of Wellington City. Includes views of houses in Oriental Bay, Wellington waterfront, aerial views of the city, and external views of the Beehive. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 2 colour original transparency/ies uncut, each comprising 3 frames.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Riddiford, Edward Vivian, 1879-1934

Reference: Pan-1521-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed wooden house built in semi-tudor style. Tiled roof, verandahs, portico at front entrance. Plants climbing up a chimney, portico pillars and some verandah posts. Hydrangeas around the base of the verandah on the right, and another large hydrangea in the lawn towards the left. Sweeping lawns, established trees all round. Some trees in the lawn including a weeping elm and a fir tree. Hills visible on the left in the background. Wide garden borders inside the line of trees left and right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Riddiford Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1517-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed villa-style house, stone block finish, roughcast pebble stone base. Slate roof, finials, decorative detail over porch to front entrance. Arched detail around verandah on left. There is a man standing by the front steps, and a man and a woman seated on the verandah at a table set with a teapot and cups on a strongly patterned table-cloth. Fenced tennis court to left of house. Circular drive, garage next to tennis court. Espaliered roses on the fence behind the court. Lawn with flower beds in foreground, hose curled up on the lawn. A separate "garden room" on the left with a path between hedges and flower beds to another lawn. Brick gateposts far left. Trees and shrubs in a border far right. The roof of a church can be seen on the left behind the house, with other houses behind a high fence. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Possible location from other images in the Alexander Turnbull Library numerical sequence Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 100.7 cm