Dormitories - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1919

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)

Reference: Plans-90-1141/1143

Description: Shows floor plans, and partial sections and elevations. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on linen, sizes varying around 520 x 650 mm.

Date: [ca 17 Apr 1972]

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

Reference: EP/1972/1975-F

Description: Liz Frizzell (left) and Joan McCracken, Victoria University students from Hastings, inside their room at Bowen Hostel (formerly Bowen Hospital), Wellington. Shows them holding a rug belonging to Joan. Photographs taken circa 17 April 1972 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

By: Murphy, N (Miss), active 1960s?

Reference: PA12-7877

Description: Photographs of Island Bay, taken by Miss N Murphy; of Erskine School, dormitories and school grounds. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1972

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites and Beard (Firm)

Reference: A-403-072/073

Description: Shows a site layout and a perspective drawing of all the buildings on the site. Original file number was 004.01.03.214 Quantity: 2 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopies, 297 x 210 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1972

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites and Beard (Firm)

Reference: A-403-117/118

Description: Two copies of a perspective view of the exterior of the Helen Lowry Hall of Residence, erected in 1972 for the Helen Lowry Trust Board. Note states that it accommodated 77 students in single and double bed studies. The cost of the work was $450,000.00. Original file numbering was: 004.02.02.227 Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photograph and photocopy, 297 x 210 mm. Transfers: Transferred from MSS 2006-155-55. - From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: [ca 17 Apr 1972]

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

Reference: EP/1972/1974-F

Description: Brian Fowler, a Victoria University student, inside his room at Bowen Hostel (formerly Bowen Hospital), Wellington. Shows him sitting on a former hospital bed, studying. Photographic posters of women hang on the walls. Photographs taken circa 17 April 1972 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1909

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Coleridge, Ernest William George, 1874?-1949

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0529

Description: Shows ground floor and first floor plans of a hostel building with dormitories and bedrooms on the upper level, and a hospital, kitchen, sitting room, dining room, hallway, den, office, bathroom, dressing room, boot room and urinal on the ground floor. Attribution to E W G Coleridge on the basis of article in Progress, Volume IV, Issue 4, 1 February 1909, page 136, which says: "Mr. E. Coleridge, architect, has accepted the tender of Mr. J. Craig, at £5300, for the erection of a native college and hostel building at Otaki for the Porirua College Trust Board. The hostel, which will stand on a fine commanding site, will have a frontage of 100 ft and an average depth of 60ft., and will be two storeys high. Accommodation has been provided for 20 boarders with a dining hall 32ft. x 21ft, two large dormitories, dressing rooms, bathrooms, etc. Also an office, den, hospital, sitting room, five bedrooms, kitchen, scullery, store rooms, and other conveniences to be used by the staff of the institution. A verandah 80ft. long and 10ft. wide will run along the north side of the building having both ends closed in with glass. This building has been designed in such a way that extra dormitories can be added at a future date without disturbing the inmates in any way." Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on dressed linen, 445 x 765 mm. Provenance: Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787.

Date: [ca 1897]

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: 1/1-012055-G

Description: Shows a dormitory at Wellington College with rows of beds, all with iron bed-heads. Photograph taken by Algernon Charles Gifford ca 1897. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [195-?]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-037273-F

Description: Nurses home, Hutt Hospital, Lower Hutt, circa 1950s, photographed by Gordon Burt. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1966

From: Winder, Duncan, 1919-1970: Architectural photographs

Reference: DW-1934-F

Description: Nurses home, Porirua Hospital, Porirua, photographed by Duncan Winder in 1966. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1940

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-037267-F

Description: Nurses home at Wellington Hospital in Newtown, circa 1940, photographed by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca1924

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-045586-G

Description: Shows Firth House (architect: Charles A Lawrence), a dormitory at Wellington College, Wellington, photographed shortly after it was built in 1924. Boys play cricket on a field in the foreground. An observatory, also built in 1924, is just visible in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 28 July 1973

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

Reference: EP-Accidents-Fires 1973-01

Description: Smoke billowing from the Greytown Nurses' Home. Fire fighters train hoses into the building. Photographed by an unknown photographer the 28th of July 1973. Was published in the Evening Post on the 30th of July 1973 The building which was being used by teachers at the time, was reduced to a shell. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16 x 12 cm