Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Date: 1959 - 1961

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-001/004

Description: Drawings for shelving in bedroom no. 3 (drawers, wardrobe and dressing table) ; elevation of fitting to right of fireplace (bookshelves and a cupboard); telephone table; dining table Mr & Mrs Perry's house was in Duthie Street, Karori Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sizes vary

Date: 1961

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: C-002-008

Description: A perspective drawing showing a two-storied wooden house in a hilly garden setting. Plans of the first and ground floors are in pencil centre foreground Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, hand-coloured with pastels 555 x 809 mm Provenance: Donation: Greta & Hilda Firth, 1994

Date: 1930 - 1980

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039

Description: Plans for buildings designed by Cedric Firth in partnership with Ernst Plischke and by Cedric Firth alone, including Massey House, Lambton Quay and other public and private buildings mostly in Wellington. Arrangement: In groups as maintained by Cedric Firth. Quantity: 905 plan(s). 11 drawing(s) of buildings designed by Cedric Firth.

Date: 1953 - 1960

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994; New Zealand Dairy Board; New Zealand Meat Producers' Board; Plishke & Firth Architects

Reference: Plans-94-039-787/796

Description: Job 232 - Plishke & Firth (architects), plans for office building at 126-132 Lambton Quay (Masey House), undated. Cedric Firth, architect - Plans for NZ Meat & Wool Boards' Economic Service, 8th floor, Massey House, Lambton Quay; plans for NZ Meat Producers Board, 7th floor, Massey House, Lambton Quay, 1960 Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, pencil on tracing paper, various sizes

Date: 1959 - 1965

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994; New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: Plans-94-039-656/736

Description: Job 527 - Various plans for Ministry of Works office building, Bridge Street, Nelson (known later as Monro State Building), dated 1959-1965 Quantity: 81 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprints, pencil, ink, various sizes

Date: 1951 - 1954

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Plishke & Firth Architects; Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-416/428

Description: Structural plans for the memorial to be erected at Okoki Pa Scenic Reserve; watercolour sketch of the proposed memorial (the crypt to be entombed inside a replica of a waka with large vertical fin); contour maps of the pa site; locality and site plans Quantity: 13 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil on tracing paper, watercolour, various sizes

Date: 1967 - 1979

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-005/007

Description: 1979 drawings for a new carport; 1969 extensions with an additonal bedroom with en-suite bathroom; 1967 original? plans for the house showing bedroom fittings and the door to the porch Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sizes vary

Date: 1972 - 1978

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans for privately-owned Wellington buildings. ca 1960-1982]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-96-008-160/173

Description: Specifications, plans and alterations to 22 Vera Street, Karori for Andrew Lenart Quantity: 13 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo & pencil, various sizes

Date: 1962 - 1969

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans for privately-owned Wellington buildings. ca 1960-1982]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-96-008-414/432

Description: Clients include: Mr Giles Beaglehole, Haggitt Street, Feilding; Mr P S Green, 58 Messines Road, Karori; Dr & Mrs J C Beaglehole, 6 Messines Road, Karori Quantity: 18 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, pencil, various sizes

Date: 1960

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-797-806

Description: Job No 518 - Floor plans, elevations, sections and details Quantity: 15 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, various sizes

Date: 1962 - 1966

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994; New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: Plans-94-039-861/897

Description: Job 527 - Various working plans and office layouts for Ministry of Works departmental office building, Bridge Street, Nelson (known later as Monro State Building), dated 1962-1966. To house - Magistrates and Supreme Court (Ground Floor), Births, Deaths & Marriages (Ground Floor), NZ Forest Service (1st Floor), Lands & Deeds Registry (1st Floor), Companies Office (1st Floor), Lands & Survey Dept (2nd Floor), National Park Board (2nd Floor). Quantity: 36 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, various sizes

Date: 1964 - 1940 - 1949

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-086/087

Description: Job No 596 - Basement plan, drainage plan, elevations and ground and first floor plans. The architect's plan for his own house. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print on linen & pencil on tracing paper, various izes

Date: Between 1955 and 1957

Reference: PA1-q-160

Description: Photographs showing all the stages of construction of Massey House, from a view of the site (undated), photographs beginning on 4th February 1955, finishing in October 1957, exterior only. Building designed by Ernst Plischke and Cedric Firth, built by Cubitt, Wells, for the New Zealand Dairy Board, opened by the Right Honourable Keith Holyoake. At the end of the album is a page with acknowledgements by the contractors for the work done by sub-contractors. Inscriptions: Album page - `This album was presented by the contractors, A.G. Wells Ltd. (Cubitt, Wells Ltd.) to the New Zealand Dairy Board on the occasion of the official opening of "Massey House" by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable K.J. Holyoake on the 4th October, 1957' Physical Description: Album with textured black, entitled `1957 Massey House', inserted in black container; 27.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1959 - 1960

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-016/028

Description: Includes floor plans, vertical sections and details of furnishings. Also includes specifications. The work is for alterations to the typist's room, 7th floor, new offices, 1st floor and air conditioning, 7th floor. Quantity: 17 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, 1 diazo print, sizes vary

Date: 1978 - 1979

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans for privately-owned Wellington buildings. ca 1960-1982]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-96-008-174/187

Description: Plans to an addition to the house of Mr & Mrs D Calhoun, Karori. Locality plan, floor plans, elevations, sections and details. Quantity: 14 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, pencil, varuious sizes

Date: 1940 - 1949

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-091/093

Description: Basement plan, drainage plan, elevations and ground and first floor plans. Cedric Firth, Architect, 15 Barton Tce. The architect's plans for his own house Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints & blueprint, various izes

Date: 1969 - 1976

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans for privately-owned Wellington buildings. ca 1960-1982]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-96-008-448/478

Description: Clients include: Dr T H Beaglehole, 260 Cockayne Road, Wellington; Mr & Mrs A C Holmes, 50 Shepherd's Road, Taupo; W M Curtis, 14 Burrows Avenue, Wellington Quantity: 30 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, pencil, various sizes

Date: 1957

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994; Plishke & Firth Architects; Templeton, Malcolm James Campbell, 1924-2017

Reference: Plans-94-039-089/090

Description: Drawings no. 2 & 3, showing locality plan in Heke Street, interior fittings and elevations, details, sections and overall plan Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink on tracing paper,

Date: 1960

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: F-064/067

Description: Perspective drawings, different versions of the front of the building. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tissue paper, sizes varying around 760 x 1260 mm. Provenance: Donation: Hilda and Greta Firth, 1994 Transfers: Part of accession DP-94-039, listed separately after the return of the bulk of the collection from the Conservation Laboratory..

Date: 1931 - 1934

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: A-008-018/022

Description: Watercolour (A8/18): Mrs Anschutz's bedroom, signed CHF '34 - design for a bedroom. Pencil (A8/19): Signed CHF 31 - street corner with multi-storey building, probably in Auckland. Pencil (A8/20): signed CHF 31 - stone church, possibly in Auckland. Monotone watercolour (A8/21): Signed CHF, undated - gargoyle, possibly from Notre Dame in Paris. Charcoal, ink & wash (A8/22): unsigned, undated - buxom nymphs and satyrs, possibly from a painting. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: 1 watercolour, 1 monochrome watercolour, 1 charcoal ink & wash, 2 pencil, sizes vary